Overview
Project Officer
Manyara
Having more than 70 years of expertise, our main goal is to enable the most underprivileged youngsters to overcome poverty and enjoy fullness of life. Inspired by our Christian faith, we assist children from all backgrounds—including in the most perilous environments.
Come enjoy the delight of changing the life stories of vulnerable children by joining our 34,000+ employees spread in almost 100 countries!
Important obligations:
Main obligations
Engagement
Strategic involvement 25% and technical support
Guarantee leadership in technical execution of important project tasks.
Verify to make sure planned interventions for Empowered Worldview (EWV) and Celebrating Families (CF) are carried out.
Program for teenagers aged 12 to 18 years supporting leadership
Support programs for spiritual leaders
Create a thorough annual project plan to track project development in order to satisfy financial goals and modify project limitations in line with the grant manager of World Vision Korea (WVK) and the project management team.
Help the local stakeholders—regions, districts, and pertinent ministries—with technical support to carry out the project activities so as to maximise impact in the execution of the project.
Determine and control project risks promptly in line with project management; then, for those needing management and donor attention, escalate to senior management and the grant manager at WVK.
Work together with technical experts and cluster managers to include the project interventions into the continuous faith and development and livelihood activities, thereby improving scale-up and sustainability.
Work closely and coordinate with other project-implementing local partners to guarantee particular activities are scaled up in the target areas.
Make sure social behaviour modification techniques and interventions are created and carried out to remove obstacles in the way of acceptance of better clubs in homes of worship and in society.
Verify that all important project models are executed and recorded with great accuracy and quality.
Chair and guarantee involvement of project stakeholders at associated meetings of the related Project Steering Committee involving additional implementing partners.
Finish Notes
Developed and kept significant alliances, cooperation, and networks supporting the project.
Project activities carried out in compliance with high standards and the annual work plan follow deadlines.
Project activities fall inside the allocated budget range.
Enough human resource planning, capacity growth, and teamwork all through the project life.
Low audit risks or minimum audit enquiries and/or results whenever an audit is conducted.
Targets for productivity and activity were reached on schedule and with reasonable variance—less than 10%.
Action
Project management, monitoring, and evaluation (25%).
Establish and keep high-quality and timely project reporting in line with WVK and WVT criteria; also, ensure that communications match the particular donor needs.
Working with M&E and project coordinators guarantees that the project results and targets are tracked and changed as needed, and annual work plans created mirror project goals. (collecting, documenting, and evaluating performance data for project effect and sustainability of execution in every area.)
Verify appropriate operational opening and closing of the project as well as distribution of monitoring and evaluation of programmatic advancement. Different project follow-up reports help to direct prompt response.
Work closely with the project M&E and WVK to build and manage program monitoring and evaluation tracking systems to ensure that the degree of change is clearly tracked and that all project indicators indicate a clear connection of activities to desired outputs and results.
Coordinate the project M&E and grants finance officer to guarantee that local stakeholders and WVK receive donor reports—financial and narrative—generated in a timely manner. Review past work from the National Office (NO).
Record and share project best practices and knowledge gained both inside and outside of your organisation.
Support all monitoring, evaluation, and research tasks and deliverables for the project and guarantee that all necessary reports and paperwork for the internal management systems of the project are prepared according to WVK and donor’s standards.
PROGRESS
According to the project indicators and database system, reach is effectively recorded and updated.
Among other pertinent instruments for implementation, the project steering committee has adopted an annual work plan (AWP), M&E plan, procurement strategy, and budget.
Documented and shared with WVK and the sponsors, project best practices, lessons learnt, and success stories find their place in Horizon and the WV Central Repository.
Horizon hosts all important project documentation and data.
Inactivity
Project Reporting—10%
Lead and help to prepare financial reports and project narratives in line with donor-specified forms as advised. Before turning in the final report to WVK, make sure draft reports are sent for review and comments by the top management team and pertinent technical consultants.
Timely production and submission of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and yearly progress reports on the state of project implementation will help to meet donor criteria by means of accurate and high-quality reports.
Lead preparation of project-specific information sheets, human impact tales, quick video clips, and images for public involvement. As needed for distribution to WVK, media, and funders, provide pertinent communications information.
Maintaining project and report tracking systems in cooperation with the compliance and reporting officer will help to guarantee that all project files are orderly and well managed for the compilation of donor reports and project monitoring.
Share lessons learnt with WVT leadership, local partners, staff, and donors from field reports to improve local planning and implementation and propose local-level necessary changes depending on evidence and lessons learnt.
End Effects
Donor reports turned in to NO review ten days before the deadlines for the donor or support office.
Questions regarding donor records answered too promptly.
As per defined timeframes, the Technical Team Leader, Cluster, and Senior Grants & Operations Manager receive monthly management reports (MMR).
The 25th of every month updates the Grants Dashboard both monthly and quarterly; it is then provided to the Senior Grants & Operations Manager.
Action
Good teamwork, maintaining and reviewing (10%)
Based on the Partner Capacity Assessment Report/gaps found, create a Plan of Development for Building Partner Capacity.
Apply the scheme for capacity building.
Visits, reports, meetings, etc.; partner monitoring
Plan yearly partnerships and evaluate partner performance.
Final Results
timely provision of indicators related to partnership management.
Engagement
Ten percent of team performance
To improve the seamless relations and responsibility of program officers, guarantee a strong performance management culture, open honest relationships, and integrity.
Supervise and assist project coordinators; also, aid government employees and consultants working on the project technically.
Advise and guarantee zero tolerance to corruption and fraud.
Conclusion
Staff has a training schedule in place, and it is followed during execution.
As the project is being carried out, project staff members are connected with corresponding technical leads for technical capacity enhancement.
Project requirements and performance management fit each other really nicely.
Participation
Management of finances and non-finance resources (10%)
Make sure the project budget is controlled within approved expenditure limits and guarantee correct and timely financial reports to World Vision and contributors.
Working with a finance team guarantees appropriate project expenses, allocated as per the allotted budget, conservatively and spent in line with donor norms and regulations to guarantee minimal risk audits.
Control program resources, tools, and materials to guarantee project responsibility and stewardship.
Conclusion Results
See the Donor and World Vision – Green – 90% – 100% burn-rate guidelines.
Activeness
Visibility, networking, donor recognition (10%),
guarantees the program initiatives and government recognition of the donor as well as partners and communities.
Create and assist strong links between government structures, community-based organisations, other implementing partners, and NGOs by working with key institutions.
depict WVT and Engage GoT and other district, regional, and national-level stakeholders in networking events, seminars, and conferences.
Facilitate among partners the recording and exchange of procedures, difficulties, best practices, and lessons learnt.
Working with the Senior Grants and Operations Manager, make sure WVK and donor enquiries and requests are timely, efficient, and properly directed.
Ending Results
Share with partners the project’s best practices.
Share project impact stories in quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports.
Necessary Professional Experience
Two years or more of minimum relevant experience leading, organising, and supervising integrated faith and development and livelihood initiatives
One must show proven knowledge in a project management capacity and use of the project management cycle in the execution of development initiatives.
At least three years of experience implementing programs
Training or staff and community-level empowerment strategies call for facilitation skills.
Design experience combined with monitoring and evaluation (DM&E)
Experience organising faith projects in programming; spiritual development; clear expression of personal faith and how it shapes their life and work. Capacity to rise above denominational diversities.Having experience running programs in sectors of WASH, Livelihood, Faith and Development, Economic Empowerment, and dealing with children under 5 and women of reproductive age, familiar with current advocacy problems concerning adolescent faith and working with adolescents & youths is a MUST experience.
License, registration, required education, training, certification
minimum two years of experience, Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Education, Gender, Community Development, Development Studies, and related studies.
Preferred Information and Skills
Great communication abilities; capacity to interact with both internal and outside stakeholders,
exceptional planning and coordination abilities
Writing skills for reports: Ability to create intricate reports
Show strong degrees of honesty.
sharp analytical and problem-solving abilities
superb team player requiring minimum direction
notable knowledge of dealing with government representatives, several partners, local organisations, and communities.
Verified expertise in enabling efficient project documentation and result distribution to a broad spectrum of users.
Knowledge gained from handling grants financed by foreign donors
Capacity to keep good working connections with every level of personnel
Effective design and excellent attention to detail, capacity to set priorities, and organising abilities—qualities absolutely essential.
High-level knowledge and practice with Word, Excel, Outlook, etc., are necessary; work in a multisectoral/cultural team; patience, cultural sensitivity, and application of contextual understanding in daily work.
Capacity to work under strict information needs deadlines
Demand for Travel and/or Work Environment
The position calls for both the ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 50% of the time to the field in the Babati Cluster-Babati abroad if necessary.
Being able to collaborate in a multicultural environment as a flexible and polite team player
Willingness to go to the field as required
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