Project Officer

Responsibilities and Accountability

Project Implementation 

• Ensures that project activities are implemented as outlined in the project/agreement and in accordance with the organization programming principles, procedures, and approaches.
• Ensures that all project interventions are implemented with full participation of the community and other stakeholders.
• Ensures that the activities are implemented at community level according to objectives and plan of the project.
• Makes regular field visits.
• Prepares and ensures that regular work plan, monthly and quarterly of field activities progress review, compile and submit to the immediate supervisor on time.
• Ensures entrepreneurial groups and community-based organizations have access to all required and necessary inputs and supplies.
• Organizes and facilitates Information Education and Communication (IEC) sessions on COVID-19 related WASH with community and government participating in the project.
• Ensures that IEC materials developed and distributed by the project reach the maximum number of people.
• Prepares daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly plans and reports on her/his activities and submit to her/his supervisor.

Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Works with the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) advisor to develop a monitoring and evaluation system that will enable Cordaid to track progress and assess the impact of interventions.
• Participates in the development of a detailed implementation plan with staff and partners.
• In consultation with the supervisor/project team, ensures that the annual, quarterly and monthly implementation plans, and budgets are prepared/developed at project, woreda, kebele and village level.
• Prepares daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly plans and reports on her/his activities and submit to her/his supervisor.
• Ensures that the project implementation, monitoring, and supervision receive the needed technical and logistics support as required and conduct periodic (quarterly/semiannual/annual) performance appraisal as per the organization policies and procedure.
• Makes sure that project activities are performed in line with the work plan.
• Monitors and track progress, provide ongoing feedback, and propose adjustments in monthly, quarterly, and annual implementation plans according to emerging needs and priorities.

Capacity Building/Training and Technical Assistance

• Provides effective support in training need identification of target group members.
• Develops capacity building plan and provide support as needed.
• Arranges training, workshops, seminars, and experience sharing visits that are related to the needs of beneficiaries.
• Provides technical assistance to community, entrepreneurial groups and community-based organizations in carrying out their duties and overcoming any problems they might encounter.
• Organizes and conducts relevant and appropriate training sessions for the community, entrepreneurial groups and community-based organizations, and counterparts.
• Assess and identifies technical assistance needs with regard to leadership skills, technical skills, supervision support, financial management etc. for and with the community, entrepreneurial groups and community-based organizations.

Coordination and Networking

• Maintains regular working relations with government offices at Zone, Woreda and Kebele levels.
• Coordinates with all non-governmental humanitarian agencies at the field level, including attendance of cluster coordination meetings, and promotion of joint activities and information sharing.
• Maintains good relationship with governmental and locally established institutions for the smooth implementation of the project.
• Closely works with government counterparts and links the activities of the community with the relevant bureaus/bodies.
• Identifies potential institutions i.e., Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Government Organizations (GOs), Microfinance Institutions (MFI), etc., to partner with for provision of financial services in a sustainable manner.
• Develop partnership with grass root level stakeholders for the sustainability of the project.
• Works closely with the communities to initiate project activities and to disseminate information
• Ensures that summary of meetings, seminars or workshops attended is written, well documented and shared with others.
• Acts as a liaison officer with government partners.

Reporting, Documentation and Learning

• Tracks/records progress and prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and submits to immediate supervisor.
• Together with her/his supervisor, compiles monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for government and other partners.
• Collects basic information from the local communities and community organizations and government sector offices, document the practices that are best performing to the local conditions and lessons learned.
• Prepare required reports on time, and of high quality that convey the project progress towards achieving good practices and impact in the targeted communities.
• Properly documents the achievements and lessons of the project activities and disseminate to partners.
• Support the documentation of good practices and lessons learned in the project component, and the replication/scaling-up of tested approaches throughout the project.