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| Senior Project Officer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2021-12-31 | Close Date | 2021-12-23 |
| Vacancy No | KBL_107 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | 6 Months (Extendable) |
| Education | Bachelor Degree is required (Master degree will be preferred) | Experience | At least 3 years of relevant working experience in humanitarian, or development, through either research, evaluation, assessments |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | Based on 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 towards 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, north eastern 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
Job Summary:
In coordination with the REACH Program / Operation Manager, the Senior Project Officer will be responsible for managing the data collection process in the field, liaising between the assessment and operations teams in Mazar-e-Sharif, Project management and training, safety and security of all data collectors and all those who are involved in data collection.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- 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 Manger
- 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
- 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 manager and assessment officer, using local contextual knowledge
- Support programme manager and assessment officer in providing review and contextualization of analysis and outputs, based on local knowledge and field experience.
- 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 data unit, to assure the quality of the data collected based on REACH quality standards.
- Provide timely updates to the Programme Manager 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 all international organizations and coordination bodies managing the implementation of activities in Sustained Rural Development Programme (SRDP) Project areas.
- Manage field issues with partners involved or conducting data collection on behalf of REACH, ACTED, or other local partners.
- Represent REACH in local coordination meetings with partners, and ensure that all REACH activities are being carried out in coordination with the project activities.
- Daily data quality feedback to Programme Manager and SFOs (or partners), based on 1) quantitative Data feedback from Data unit and 2) qualitative review from project team.
- Review & contextualisation of Assessment Officer analysis & output production.
- Coordination with Programme Manager on progress tracking.
- Guide, support, coach and mentor team members
- Work collaboratively to contribute to achieving team outcomes
- Provide timely updates to the Program Manager and Reach Field Manager of any challenges and difficulties related to the field work
- Coordinate assessment schedules with Field Manager and potential partners in the field, as well as arrange assessment dates, and communicate any challenges and blockages to the REACH Operation Manager and Country Focal Point
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 is required (Master degree will be preferred)
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience in humanitarian, or development, through either research, evaluation, assessments, or programmes
- Previous experience leading others leadership qualities, such as motivation techniques and conflict-management
- Willingness to travel extensively to lead data collection across North Region covered by ACTED provincial offices in North Region (Mazar, Faryab, Jawzjan, Samangan, Sar-e-Pul)
- Previous experience leading others.
- Previous experience with data collection in the field, including mobile data collection platform
- Leadership qualities, such as motivation techniques and conflict-management
- Computer literacy for spreadsheet and word processing software
- Time management skills, especially familiarity with calendar management and goal setting
- Familiarity with the work being done by each team member
- 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.