This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated development professional with 1-3 years’ experience to contribute to impactful agricultural and livelihoods work in one of Madagascar’s most biodiverse regions. SEED’s agriculture project works with communities to strengthen food security, promote climate-smart farming, and support sustainable land management practices. We use community-led, participatory approaches, working with local communities to identify and implement projects that meet their needs and priorities.
This is an exciting position for someone who has 1-3 years in-field experience and a particular interest in and exposure to agricultural development and climate-resilient farming systems. You will work alongside national and international staff, supporting the development, funding, reporting and evaluation of our programme. You will be responsible for generating funds across the programmes to maximise impact. This post will partner our national implementation teams, managing donor compliance, ensuring proposals and reports are to a high standard and budgets are appropriately managed.
It is essential that the post holder has grant writing experience and is able to work in English to a high standard. Candidates who do not meet these criteria will not be considered.
Title: Programme Officer
Location: Fort Dauphin, Anosy Region, Madagascar
Timeframe: 2 years, extendable
Contract Type: Local salary, £1,200 contribution to flights and £650 towards insurance
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Person specification
About the Organisation
SEED Madagascar is a British Charity working in partnership with communities in the southeast of Madagascar. We integrate high quality community health, rural livelihoods; education infrastructure and conservation programmes to support long term, sustainable change and add to international best practice through research and publication across all of our programmatic areas. We are now looking for entry level interns and officers to work alongside national staff and expand our team.
Interested applicants should send a CV and covering letter in English outlining why they wish to take up this position and how their skills and experience match the requirements in the job description criteria to our hiring team at applications@seedmadagascar.org.
Please note: AI-generated cover letters and recruitment exercises will not be processed. We value concise and focused applications. To help us review all submissions efficiently, please include the dates you were in your previous employment, and limit your CV to a maximum of four pages. Unfortunately, longer CVs cannot be considered.
Application Deadline: Monday 26th October 2026 at 23:59 GMT. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis throughout this period.
Candidates will complete an exercise, long-listed applicants will have an initial informal interview with Madagascar based staff and short-listed applicants will then be offered an interview with the London team.
SEED Madagascar actively encourages equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace and aims to create a working environment free of bullying, harassment, victimisation, and unlawful discrimination, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued.
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