Deadline: 29 July, 2021
Location: Cairo, Egypt
The Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the role of Senior Project Officer.
The CRS works with local, national and international Catholic institutions and structures, as well as other organisations, to assist people on the basis of need.
Responsibilities
- Organise and lead the implementation of all assigned project activities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with CRS programme quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices
- Manage team dynamics and staff well-being
- Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, contribute to the recruitment process of project staff, and complete performance management for direct reports
- Ensure learning properly accompanies project activities throughout the project cycle
- Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities, guiding the team and local partners in their efforts to reflect on project experiences
- Analyse implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules
- Coordinate and oversee working relationships with all local project stakeholders and serve as the liaison between them and all the project teams to mobilise local actors and promote project activities and impact
- Supervise and perform ad hoc inspection of various processes and resources at project sites, ensuring timely project activity implementation and adherence to established process standards and procedures
- Ensure proper tracking of resource use for project activities through periodic budget reviews and follow up with assistance to teams and local partners
- Coordinate activities required for ensuring the financial, materials, and human resources for the quality implementation of the project
- Conduct regular budget reviews to facilitate proper tracking of resource use
- Support and coordinate capacity building and technical support activities for CRS and local partner team staff to ensure assigned project activities are implemented per project guidelines and standards
- Coordinate provision of any logistical and administrative support to staff and partners
- Ensure project documentation is complete with all required documents filed
- Assist with preparation of trend analysis reports and documentation of case studies and promising practices
- Engage and strengthen partnerships relevant to CRS Egypt livelihoods and education programming, applying appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools, and approaches
- Identify staff capacity needs and technical assistance needs of partner organisations and contribute to capacity strengthening and required interventions to support quality project implementation
- Manage database to ensure accessibility and reliability of information
- Support compliance with agency and donor MEAL requirements
- Train MEAL staff on the conduct of field-based MEAL activities
- Provide input to MEAL system design and review discussions
- Supervise quality data collection and management activities
- Lead simple analyses and reflective discussions on ongoing monitoring data
- Contribute initial findings and field-based insights to project discussions
- Foster respectful relationships with community members and stakeholders
- Promote honesty and integrity in work of MEAL agents
- Implement activities according to MEAL DIP
- Contribute to reflective community-based conversations on ongoing project interventions
- Share insights and perspectives based on observations and interactions with community members, colleagues, and stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in International Relations or Development Economics, or a related field
- Additional education may substitute for some experience
- Four years, minimum, of experience in project management, ideally in the field of livelihoods and for an NGO
- Relevant grant management experience, especially for U.S. government or other public donors will be a plus
- Experience in working with partners, participatory action planning and community engagement
- Staff supervision experience
- Experience in monitoring projects and collecting relevant data
- Ability to contribute to the development of technical proposals
- Experience in analysing data and contributing to evaluation reports
- Experience in using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
To apply and for more information, click here.
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