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| AGORA Senior Project Officer | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Faryab, Ghazni, Herat, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-05-08 | Close Date | 2022-05-20 |
| Vacancy No | KBL_066 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 3 | Contract Duration | 6 Months (extendable) |
| Education | Excellent academic qualifications, including a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (a Master’s degree will be preferred); | Experience | Previous experience with data collection in the field, including mobile data collection platform |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | According to ACTED's Salary Scale |
About Company
About ACTED: Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer-term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. We go the last kilometer: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard-to-reach areas. ACTED develops and implements programs that target the most vulnerable amongst populations that have suffered from conflict, natural disaster, or socio-economic hardship. ACTED’s approach looks beyond the immediate emergency toward opportunities for longer-term livelihoods reconstruction and sustainable development. ACTED is active in 35 countries and implements more than 495 projects a year reaching over 11 million beneficiaries with 400 international staff and 4,300 national staff. ACTED is working in 14 north, northeastern and East & West provinces of Afghanistan. These provinces are affected by natural and man-made disasters. ACTED is providing relief and emergency assistance to the vulnerable population affected by displacements, conflicts, or natural disasters, in the field of agriculture, NFI, shelters, WASH, and food security
Job Description
Key responsibilities:
Under the line management of the Program Manager/Project Specialist the Senior Project Officer will fulfill the following functions:
- Project Management and Design
- Manage and oversee all aspects of project planning, development and implementation at the field level, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards, and within the agreed scope in line with established agency project management methodology
- Support in tool design and translation in coordination with the programme specialist and assessment officer, using local contextual knowledge
- Support in the training of all Field Officers on data collection, sampling, survey methods, and other training topics
- Timely flag any issues with the Field Officers, deadlines, or anything influencing the data collection at the field level to the Programme Specialist
- Liaise with each Field Officer about the weekly/biweekly work plan
- Support programme specialist and assessment officer in providing review and contextualization of analysis and outputs, based on local knowledge and field experience.
- Oversight of Project Data Collection in the Field
- Collect completed forms from the Field Officers, check them, and send them to Kabul/Mazar
- Assure that data collection takes place according to plan, and based on the work plan designed, through daily progress tracking
- Communicate any delay in data collection, due to security events or any other challenges that impede work in the field.
- Conduct debriefings with Field Officers in the field as needed
- Conduct daily data cleaning and coordinate feedback to field teams, based on input from the Data unit, to assure the quality of the data collected based on REACH quality standards
- Coordination
- Provide timely updates to the Programme Specialist on-field issues to be followed up on a national level related to any challenges and difficulties related to the fieldwork.
- Report any misconduct from the Field Officers that affects the fieldwork and safety of the assessment activities
- Coordinate activities with partners and other interested organizations in the field location.
- Represent REACH in local coordination meetings with partners, and ensure that all REACH activities are being carried out in coordination with the project activities.
The Senior Project Officer will maintain the strictest confidentiality on all data collected and related processes. He/she will actively take measures to prevent the unauthorized sharing of any information and data belonging to REACH/ACTED and its partners, or collected during his/her assignment with REACH/ACTED
Job Requirement
- Excellent academic qualifications, including a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (a Master’s degree will be preferred);
- At least 2 years of relevant working experience with humanitarian organizations
- Previous experience leading others leadership qualities, such as motivation techniques and conflict-management
- Previous experience with data collection in the field, including mobile data collection platform
- Computer literacy for spreadsheet and word processing software
- Time management skills, especially familiarity with calendar management and goal setting
- Knowledge of project management processes
- Ability to think creatively in terms of tool and process development
- Flexibility and adaptability to ever-changing needs and responsibilities
- Ability to work both independently, and as part of a team
- Strong leadership skills
- Fluency in English is required
- Strong translation skills
Submission Guideline
- Those who fulfill the above-mentioned criteria should send their updated CV to the below submission Email:afghanistan.jobs@acted.org
- Kindly mention Vacancy number, position title (specify the subject) along with province name in the subject line or your application may not be considered.
- Please do not send heavy size documents (i.e. Tazkira, Education documents, and work certificates)
- Women are highly encouraged to apply.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be called for the next stage of recruitment.
- No CV will be considered after the closing date.