Program Officer -Women And Youth

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Program Support Ensure that the partner project targets are met accordingly to the implementation work-plan. This includes being responsible for the quality of periodical reports/updates and grants tracking system by ensuring that subgrant records are kept up to date. Help design project frameworks/objectives with local partners/LNGOs, and ensure that the projects funded all meet set criteria and standards. Organize and participate in the facilitation of meetings/workshops/trainings to help increase the capacity of local staff and implementing partners in planning and implementation of emergency response programs. Support local partner organisations throughout the process and respond to their requests. Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission. Assist in any other task or duty assigned by the supervisor. Closely follow the implementation of partner activities from the design phase through to implementation and close out. Coordinate internally with finance, compliance, humanitarian access and program development teams, ensuring a consistent approach to project design, implementation and close out. Maintain well-organized and consistent filing system and tracking system for all project documentation and information. Supervise monitoring activities to assess the quality and effectiveness of projects. Provide follow-up recommendations and solutions where there are problems in implementation. Organizational Learning:  As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve - we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves. Highlights: Participate in staff training, helping to build technical capacity of staff, operators and partners in the area of Protection and Livelihoods, including periodical reflection and analysis of program monitoring data; Mentors and coaches colleagues and team members building their capacity to enable them to obtain high quality results and impact Helps in development and execution of context specific solutions to improve collaboration, coordination and performance; Work with partners to strengthen linkages with other actors to enhance organizational learning which directly impacts staff performance and productivity; Accountability to Stakeholders: Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to the international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects. Highlights: Ensure that beneficiary communities are adequately informed about programs through partners, are aware of their entitlements, are comfortable to give feedback and that feedback is used to improve the quality of our programs; Integrate M&E and accountability systems that are compliant with HAP international benchmarks, SPHERE and other relevant standards, as well as to the Donors’ requirements; Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission or put the team, assets and mission at risk.