Department: Somalia Program
Position: Program Officer
Direct Hierarchy: Head of Office
Contract duration: Six Months
Location: Baidoa, Somalia
Starting Date: August 2016
ACTED (Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development) is a non-political and non-confessional International NGO founded in 1993 with its headquarters in Paris, France. The organization’s vocation is to save lives, assist vulnerable populations and bring hope to those in need for better future.
ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill the position of a Program Officer based in Baidoa, Somalia.
I. Main objectives:
- Implementation of all projects for ACTED in Baidoa in a timely, accountable and quality manner.
- Technical line management of the Project Assistant and Community Mobilizers
- Directly coordinate with the other departments
II. Responsibilities:
· Oversee the implementation of all project activities under the Food Security/Livelihoods project in Bay region to ensure the project is completed in a timely and accountable manner.
· Supervise implementation of projects operating under a partnership approach in Bay Region.
· Supervise implementation and reporting of all activities, acting as line manager and responsible for compliance to ACTED policies and procedures.
- Coordinate with the field team in Bay Region and the AMEU department to prepare and implement project monitoring and evaluation plans.
- Set up, plan, supervise and monitor the project at the field level to ensure the successful implementation of all projects activities, the generation of planned outputs and attainment of key project objectives.
- Ensure that all activities undertaken are appropriately documented (agreements/ Mous with relevant authorities, attendance sheets in training curricula, beneficiary lists beneficiary business plans and accounts when relevant etc.)
- Manage the field program staff, including project assistant, community mobilizers, providing them with advice and ensure technical backstopping.
- To provide strategic advice and guidance to program management team in relation to livelihood programming aspects.
- To undertake biannual appraisal of staff under his responsibility.
- To budget and monitor project expenditures to ensure they are in line with ACTED and donor requirements.
- Liaise with the FLAT team in the field and area office to coordinate procurement and other needs for project implementation and organization of base support
- To produce a departmental internal report on bi-monthly basis.
- Help ensure a balanced, representative and inclusive team and compliance process in consideration of equal opportunity and cultural sensitivity at base levels.
- Perform other duties requested by his/her supervisor.
Requested profile
· Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Development studies, Social science or other relevant discipline
- Project management experience in Donor Funded Projects
- Hands On experience in report writing
- Ability to train, mobilize, and manage national staff
- Flexibility and ability to multi-task under pressure;
- Ability to work well in unstable and frequently changing security environments;
- Proven ability to work creatively and independently both in the field and in the office;
- Advanced proficiency in written and spoken English
· Good inter-personal skills, commitment and motivation
· Must be a Somali national-fluent in written and spoken Somali
HOW TO APPLY:
Application Procedure
Qualified persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications (most updated CV and cover letter) to kenya.jobs@acted.org on or before July 20, 2016 with the subject line clearly indicating the position you are applying for. Please do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.
Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. If you receive any email/calls in relation to ACTED’s recruitment and you are unsure about its validity or origin, please contact us on nairobi@acted.org ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer
