Position Title: Project Officer

Number of positions: One(1)

Reporting:  FSL Program Manager

Duty Station: Jariiban, Puntland

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Summary of Position

The Project Officer will oversee the implementation of the project activities under the strategic guidance of the program manager. The officer ensures the day-to-day running of the project related matters, including visibility of the project, financial and budget delivery management, information sharing and monitoring. He/she will contribute to the execution and assurance of project success. He/she will work collaboratively with all team members but most closely with program manager. The officer will be required to work in a changing and dynamic environment with multiple priorities and pressing demands.

Purpose.

The project officer will be responsible for the overall implementation of project deliverables as per the organizational and donor standards. He/she will work to ensure that professional standards of work maintained and activities completed on time and budget. He/she will ensure reporting on project deliverables in a timely manner. The project officer will develop methods of project initiation, execution and delivery and will ensure proper coordination and integration with other departments.

Engagement:

He/she will closely engage with other project team members, relevant implementing stakeholders, community structures. He/she will ensure project coordination and information sharing.

Delivery:

The project officer will develop work plans as per the detailed implementation plans and will produce BoQs, FRs, monitoring and trainings plans. He/she will prepare cash requests and other requisitions to facilitate project implementation, keeping accurate records for accountability purposes

Essential job duties.

Ensure for successful planning, coordination and implementation of FSL activities including market assessments and other interventions.

Responsible for making follow-up of the FSL activities to ensure that FSL program objectives and outputs achieved.

Ensure that the FSL activities in the assigned area of operation are implemented in accordance with ACF standard rules, regulations and operational procedures, agreed strategies, implementation plans and requirements.

Organize and support running of all livelihood project activities in the target villages.

Coordinate the preparation of documents for various projects including fund requests (FR), Bills of Quantities (BoQs), and Request for Quotations, etc.

Represent ACF in community meetings, food security or emergency response meetings in coordination with FSL team.

Provide inputs to the design & utilization of project information gathering tools & project activity manuals throughout project implementations.

Work with the other program team members on cross-learning and beneficiary capacity building initiatives especially in relation to FSL.

Participate in FSL related data collection together with the MEAL team including rapid needs assessment, MSNA and joint assessments.

Work in close collaboration with other departments including Nutrition, WASH, and Health teams on ensuring field level integration and synergy for resiliency gains.

Build capacity of project staff members in relation to FSL components.

Ensure to adhere other relevant duties as directed by the PM, DHoD or HOD or Specific responsibilities.

Contribute to the development of viable community mobilisation strategies for targeting, registration, and follow-up of FSL beneficiaries.

Plan and execute FSL related capacity building for targeted communities.

Ensure that targeting of FSL beneficiaries is done in a transparent and gender sensitive and conflict sensitive way.

Conduct follow up monitoring of FSL activities in the area of operation in collaboration with MEAL team.

Ensure conduct robust community and beneficiary mobilization and registration as per the procedural standards.

Engage effectively with community structures including village committees to maintain good working relations.

Prepare and compile FSL activity project reports on weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and yearly and share with FSLPM.

Develop impact stories to incorporate quarterly, semi-annually and annual reports. Ensure the validation and use of project tools both ACF and other donor requisites.

Regular monitoring of project activities and provide timely inputs and feedback to the FSLPM.

Organize and link project documentations into the no hunger forum (NHF) for record and follow up.

Working Conditions, Travel and Environment

The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.

Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious diseases.