Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Juba, South Sudan
ACTED has announced a call for applications for the position of Project Coordinator.
The NGO provides assistance through building emergency shelters, distributing non-food items, assisting in the management of camps for displaced persons or providing logistical support as well as information management services to the humanitarian community.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely organisation of project kick-off and close-out meetings
- Ensure that all projects have an implementation strategy and work-plan
- Together with consortium coordinators, area coordinators and project managers, plan the various stages of project implementation and set direction by prioritising and organising activities and resources to achieve project objectives
- Oversee the implementation of projects, ensuring that technical requirements and quality standards are considered and respected during project implementation
- Anticipate and mitigate risks and implementation delays and provide ad-hoc support to project implementation
- Monitor output achievement, cash burn rates and ensure a timely completion of projects through review of PMFs, BFUs and project reports
- Ensure that contractual obligations are met in terms of project deliverables
- Ensure the application of a practical field-based monitoring and evaluation system/plan for each project
- Conduct frequent field visits to project sites to assess activities and ensure efficient use of resources
- Advise consortium coordinators, area coordinators and project managers to adapt projects according to monitoring and evaluation findings
- Advise on and assist with project reviews conducted by AMEU
- Support the consortium coordinators and project managers to regularly review partnerships with implementing partners and ensure that any issues or disputes are resolved in a timely manner
- Provide support to partners in project implementation and ensure timely and qualitative implementation of projects by partners in line with ACTED and donor requirements
- Lead review meetings with partners, with particular attention given to the relationship aspects of partnership collaboration
- Establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with local authorities and, where necessary, non-state actors and obtain required authorisation and buy-in for ACTED’s activities
- Support, facilitate or undertake communication and liaison activities to actively consult and involve beneficiaries, key informants, actors, partners and stakeholders in all stages of project implementation
- Ensure that at all times contact with beneficiaries is conducted in a sensitive and respectful manner
Requirements
- Four years, minimum, of work experience in insecure environments preferably in Africa, Asia, or the Middle East
- Demonstrated communication and organisational skills
- Ability to train, mobilise, and manage both international and national staff
- Flexibility and ability to multitask under pressure
- Ability to work well in unstable and frequently changing security environments
- Willingness to work and live in often remote areas under basic conditions
- Proven ability to work creatively and independently both in the field and in the office
- Advanced proficiency in written and spoken English
To apply and for more information, click here.
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