Project Officer

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Project Officer will work closely with project managers and team members to support the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate to the planning process under the supervision of the PM and to its regular review.
• Produce monthly work plan based on project planning and report achievements.
• Collect data for documenting indicators & participate to the project monitoring.
• Actively participate to all project meetings.
• Monitors qualitative project implementation, ensuring successful realization and achievement of project’s objectives and indicators.
• Ensures collection and archiving of sources of verification, especially the contractual ones.
• Proposes any adjustment of the project whenever needed (change of context, delay in the implementation, adaptation of tools, etc.).
• Ensures the quality of work through regular field visits, monitoring on data collection, supervision on implementation of technical guidelines and internal procedures.
• Keep track of all monitoring and evaluation schedules and implementation of monitoring and evaluation procedures.
• Quality check, consolidation and diffusion of the reporting/request tools.
• Sends minutes from all the meetings and discussions internally within the project team, with project partners and external actors.
• Sends any other report upon line management request.
• Participates to intermediate and final project reporting.
• Contribute to the identification of the tools needed for implementing the project activities and to their development.
• Liaise with logistics and finance department as per the procedures in place to undertake purchase & expenditures as required for activities implementation.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• University Degree in the field of expertise of the project: Sociology, Public health, project management.
• Experience in the field of expertise of the project implementation, working with local/community-based organization/services providers with preference in I/NGO.
• Ability to work within a team and independently and without constant supervision.
• Good communication skills, ability to communicate effectively and write reports that are clear and concise and record documentation in an appropriate manner.
• Ability to develop accessible information materials
• Ability to identify and assess risks related to project implementation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.