Project officer

SHiFT is a social innovation hub leading the transformation of post-conflict and/or marginalized zones towards peaceful and prosperous communities. It brings people together and bridges differences through building capacities, raising awareness, creating opportunities, promoting success models and mentoring. Within its partnership with UNICEF, SHiFT will be operating a short-term pilot project dedicated to protection mainstreaming across most vulnerable children in the area of Amerken, Bekkar, Jabal, Tebbane , mankoubin and, Mashrou3 el hariri in Tripoli. Throughout this intervention SHiFT is seeking the expertise of a Project officer to help facilitate a smooth implementation of the project activities.

SCOPE OF WORK: The project officer will help achieve project success and work in close coordination with the project manager. The project officer shall attend administrative details to ensure successful project meetings. Project officer is expected to use their teamwork and communication skills to ensure smooth implementation of project activities in a timely manner and within allocated budget.

Who this position reports to: Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project officer:

• Crear project schedule with milestones, due date and ensure project team follow through.
• Coordinate logistics for field team throughout implementation of activities and planned events
• Coach field team during visits
• Coordinate different aspects of the project including gathering reporting templates from field team.
• Coordinate risk and challenges and propose alternatives.
• Monitor spending limits.
• Ensure adherence to the organization’s rules and regulations.
• Communicate with various departments in the organization to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
• Monitor safety and security situation ahead of implementation of field activities

Trainings and meetings

• Participate in core skill building training and/or learning modules, as required

Monitoring & Reporting

• Consolidate findings from weekly outreach visits, safety assessments and other activities.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Project officer is expected to be detailed oriented
• Dependable is the project manager would rely on project officer follow up over several things
• Maintain confidentiality and respect.
• Positive and professional attitude
• Good communication skills.
• Works well in a team, flexible, and able to handle pressure well and able to move in the field
• Computer literacy preferred but not required.
• Fluency in Arabic required. Basic ability to communicate in English is an added value.
• Strong communication skills
• Efficiency, integrity and flexibility required at all times
• Critical thinking and analysis competencies
• Create and maintain a strong filing System
• Handle paper work with complete efficiency, transparency and confidentiality if and when needed.

   

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Staff will work in the office with frequent travel to the field