Officer (Garowe based)

Manager & SRCS Executive Director

CO Purpose:

The purpose of the Country Offices (CO) is to ensure implementation of Norwegian Red Cross International Strategy at country level through programme support to the National Society partner, as articulated and established in the approved Country Framework. This means that the CO is responsible for ensuring results-based project management, risk management, and operational in-country Movement coordination. Furthermore, the CO is responsible for ensuring project implementation in support to NS partners, in line with established project agreements and project plans. The CO ensures sound technical quality of all country projects, in line with established technical standards and best practices. The CO ensures that Norwegian Red Cross programme support is based on regularly updated humanitarian needs analysis in line with established practices. The CO represents Norwegian Red Cross in-country with regards to external partnerships and relationships. The CO is responsible for in-country security management.

established project agreements and project plans.

–          Contributes to the development of SMART indicators that are supported by clear and concise indicator guidelines that operationalizes the indicators and explains the data sources, collection methods, frequency of monitoring and audience.

–          Function as the focal person at the Norwegian Red Cross CO for the project(s) implementation staff on issues related to the daily running of the project(s) which is/are included in the Norwegian Red Cross supported programmes

–          Provides support to the Country Programme Manager for the development of quality project packages to be submitted for internal approval before project start up

–          Supports the design and implementation of baseline surveys

–          Supports the Country Programme Manager in situ monitoring of progress and discusses adjustments to improve results and achieve objectives.

–          Quality assures overall data and quarterly reports provided by HNS

–          Supports the organization of end-line studies to quantitative measures changes in values of

chosen variables.

–          Certificate/Diploma/Degree in Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting is highly desirable

Formal Competence ( skills and knowledge)

–          Proven ability to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate and report on programmes related to the technical area of health

–          Excellent drafting skills including successful donor applications and reporting on humanitarian projects with measurable results.

–          Fluency in Somali and English is required. Ability to communicate and write clearly in English is expected.

–          Thorough knowledge of Puntland state and its different regions is required

–          Ability to travel within and outside Puntland state including Mogadishu for monitoring and coordination visits on regular basis

–          Ability to convince and gain acceptance

–          Ability to communicate effectively

–          Ability to be solution oriented

–          Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply