Background on ACTED

Responsibilities

Assist in Fundraising: assist in context analysis (country’s socio-economic situation analysis and needs); take minutes of external meeting with the Junior Project Development Officer or Country Director; assist in the development of fundraising document (such as context section, needs and assessment sections, assist to integrate lesson learned and best practices); assist in addressing in tamely manner comments by donors on proposals

Assist in Grant Management: 

Contract follow-up: that contractual obligations (including visibility requirements) and reporting deadlines are known and met by the relevant departments; 

Reporting: take minutes of kick-off and close out meetings for each project; assist to provide information for quality narrative reports; collect information from other department needed for the reporting; 

Partner follow-up: assist to ensure partners report to ACTED in a timely and qualitative manner as per the requirements of the grant agreement

Assist in Internal Coordination and Communication: facilitate interdepartmental communication and information sharing from the Base, to the Area, Capital, and even up to the regional and HQ offices by taking minutes of the various ACTED coordination meetings; file properly contractual project documents both in hard and soft copies

 Assist in External Communication:  contribute to ACTED external communication by assisting in the review of communication products (such as factsheets, Success stories, maps, articles) and assist to ensure the respect of ACTED communication and donor visibility guidelines.   

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in international relations, political sciences, human rights, development studies or any other relevant field.

Fresh graduate or having maximum one year of experience.

Strong ability to work independently, organize work, meet deadlines. 

Professional attitude, excellent communcation, creative and flexible with ability to work in a team.

Ability to work under pressure.

Excellent writing and communication skills – excellent written and spoken level in English (mandatory). A written test in English will be conducted prior to the interviews.

Valid driving license.

Excellent IT skills, Microsoft programs especially Excel.