Senior Project Officer

Main role:

The Senior Project Officer ensures the smooth implementation of the project in compliance with contractually agreed targets, scope, duration, budget, and donor compliance obligations.

She/he is responsible for the active daily follow-up of project activities ensuring results-based management is integrated along with proper effective and efficient consideration of project’s constraints of time, budget, and quality.

She/he coordinates with other departments and stakeholders to ensure all aspects of each project are compatible to fulfil target group’s needs.

Main responsibilities:

Project Management

• Oversees daily direct and indirect project activities implementation in accordance with the project plans and ensures the progress of project achievements is being made within time, budget, and quality metrics.
• Develops a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.
• Manages changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Re-plans as necessary involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Manages the relationships with the partners and other stakeholders.
• Reports monthly following Tdh standards and escalates to management as needed.
• Performs risk management to minimize project risks.
• Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation.
• Participates as an active member in regular internal and external coordination meetings.
• Attends capacity building opportunities as required to maintain proficiency.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Financial, Logistics and Compliance Management

• Meets budgetary objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on budget re-planning, monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
• Ensures resources availability and allocation.
• Works closely with the support services departments on all financial and logistical issues.

Strategy and Project Development

• Contributes to identify new types of intervention through regular assessments at field level.
• Contributes to the mapping of all relevant stakeholders.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Monitors the humanitarian situation in the areas of intervention and conducts field visits to verify project activities are implemented according to contractual targets and up to quality standards.
• Works closely with the MEAL team to ensure project monitoring systems are in place and that reviews are undertaken.
• Ensures accountability and transparency to beneficiaries, communities, and donors.

Reporting and Communication

• Produces and submit regular reports (sitreps, donor’s reports, …).
• Produces case studies and success stories.
• In collaboration with the communication department, provides regular internal and external communication products focusing on the project activities.
• Ensures proper and regular documentation (+ sources of verification) of the project.

Representation and Organizational Policies

• Represents Tdh at relevant meetings with communities, local authorities, or any other relevant identified stakeholders.

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout Tdh. Maintains a clear understanding of Tdh’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.
• Is aware of, abides by and promotes the practices and values set out in all other Tdh policies and procedures.

Safety and Security

• Complies with Tdh security regulations and ensures that safety measures and guidelines are known and followed by all the project staff.
• Monitors the security situation in the operational areas and establishes a good understanding of the context and risks associated with a changing environment.

• Reports any security/safety incident and/or risk to the top management.

• Develop a network to facilitate the project acceptance.

Other duties

Complete other duties at the discretion of the management.

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Requirements for the position:

 Qualifications

 Bachelor’s degree or master’s level qualification in appropriate field of social science studies.

 Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ proven experience with (I)NGO in a similar position (mandatory).
• Proven working experience in project management.
• Experience with GBV, Child Protection case management and MHPSS.
• Strong knowledge of grant management with adherence to donors’ regulations (financially and technically).
• Proven experience of managing relationships in local partner(s) with numerous stakeholders in different locations.
• Demonstrable experience in building relationships and representing the organization to external stakeholders active in the area of intervention.
• experience in capacity building, training development and facilitation in areas of project implementation.

Competencies

•  Demonstrated skills in project cycle management.
• Capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes difficult working circumstances.
• Ability to work well and punctually under pressure in very volatile contexts.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and dispute resolution skills.
• Excellent written, spoken and reporting skills in both English and Arabic
• Very good IT skills including (MS Office).

Child Safeguarding Policy

• Commits to respect the Child Safeguarding Policy.
• Reports serious cases of abuse on children identified by the Child Protection team to the Country Representative. Strict confidentiality must be respected.

Interested candidates should send their resume with motivation letter on or before Sunday 14th of July 2024 to [email protected] indicating your name, surname and the job title (Senior Project Officer) in the subject line of your e-mail application. Incomplete applications or applications received after the deadline will be disregarded.

Please note that while Tdh values every application, the recruitment process may be concluded ahead of schedule should Tdh identifies a candidate who meets all the requirements. Tdh encourages interested applicants to submit their applications promptly.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and those shortlisted will be contacted.