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| Senior Project Officer | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, Herat, Kunduz, Nangarhar, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2021-05-12 | Close Date | 2021-05-25 |
| Vacancy No | KBL_0039 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | 12 months ( Extendable) |
| Education | Bachelor degree in International Relation, Economics, Business Administration, Political Science, | Experience | At least 3 years |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | According to ACTED salary scale |
About Company
About ACTED and REACH Initiative: 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. ACTED manages several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative. REACH’s purpose is to provide granular data, timely information, and in-depth analysis to support the humanitarian community’s decision making and planning capacity for emergency, reconstruction and development contexts. The work of the REACH Initiative directly feeds into aid response and decision-making by providing accessible and precise information on the humanitarian situation of crisis-affected populations. REACH Initiative has been present in Afghanistan since 2016, providing a growing evidence base for humanitarian response planning through sectoral, multi-sectoral and area-based assessments as well as information management services. Important Note: Anyone employed by or working for ACTED shall commit to act according to ACTED’s Code of Conduct, which outlines the expected behavior of ACTED teams. To ensure that funds are used exclusively for humanitarian purposes and in accordance with donors’ compliance requirements, all job / internship / volunteering offers are subject to the condition that potential staff names do not appear on anti-terrorism lists, in line with ACTED’s anti-terrorism policy. To this end, your data shall be automatically processed.
Job Description
1- Staff management
- Support in training of all Field Officers on data collection, sampling, survey methods, and other training topics
- Liaise with each Field Officer about the weekly / biweekly work plan
- Assure the attendance of Field Officers at trainings, and any other mandatory meetings, sessions etc.
- Enforce Field Officers’ compliance with the ACTED code of conduct in Afghanistan
- Enforce Field Officers’ compliance with the ACTED safety and security measures in Afghanistan
- Timely flag any issues with the Field Officers, deadlines, or anything influencing the data collection at field level to the Programme Specialist
- Report any misconduct from the Field Officers that affects the field work and safety of the assessment activities
- Assure Field Officers attendance at their monitoring sites
2- Project Management and Design
- Manage and oversee all aspects of project planning, development and implementation at field level, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within 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 programme specialist and assessment officer in providing review and contextualization of analysis and outputs, based on local knowledge and field experience.
3- Oversight of Project Data Collection in the Field
Collect completed forms from the Field Officers, check them, and send them to Kabul
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.
Follow up and ensure that Field Officers comply with deadlines of all requested work.
Conduct debriefings with Field Officers in the field as needed
Conduct daily data cleaning and coordinate feedback to field teams, based on input from from Data unit, to assure the quality of the data collected based on REACH quality standards
4- Coordination
Provide timely updates to the Programme Specialist on field issues to be followed up on at national level related to any challenges and difficulties related to the field work.
Coordinate activities with consortium partners and other interested organisations 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
- Bachelor degree in International Relation, Economics, Business Administration, Political Science, and Master degree will be preferred in the same field of studies
- At least 3 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 required
- Strong translation skills
Submission Guideline
Those who fulfill the above mentioned criteria should send their updated CV to below submission Email:
Kindly mentioned Vacancy number, position title along with province name in subject line or your application may not be considered.
Please do not send heavy size documents (i.e. Tazkira, Education documents, and work certificates)
Only shortlisted candidates will be call for the next stage of recruitment.
No CV will received after closing date.