Project Officer Canadian NGO Jobs – Raising The Village (RTV)
Organisation: Raising The Village (RTV)
Duty Station: Kisoro / Kanungu, Uganda
Reports to: Team Lead
About US:
Raising The Village International (RTV) is a Canadian non-profit organization focused on ending extreme poverty by eliminating immediate barriers of scarcity, nurturing income-generation activities and building local capacity, while moving communities toward economic self-sufficiency.
Job Summary: The RTV Project Officers work to implement RTV methodologies throughout the implementation and transition phase of a partner village and cluster. RTV’s work focuses on improving household livelihoods, bringing people out of extreme poverty, and therefore the work focuses largely on agriculture, livestock, water and sanitation, health, Financial Literacy Trainings, Village Savings and Loans, etc. They work in collaboration with various stakeholders, including government officials, community members, suppliers amongst others. The main focus is as follows:
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Implementation and Facilitation
- Development and management of workplans and budgets;
- Coordination and facilitation of various training activities;
- Implementation of programming as per project designs;
- Monitor performance of programs and maintenance through follow-up community visits;
- Identification of risks and issues and provide recommendations;
- Conduct regular meetings with leadership and community members on performance, participation, and perceptions of RTV based projects;
- Work with procurement officer to procure various materials (agriculture, livestock, etc.) for project purposes;
- Responsible to verify goods prior to distribution and implementation.
Transition Role
- Establishing and maintaining the integrity of community projects;
- Ensure the outcome and adaptability of the activities introduced in the community are continued;
- Implement transitional phase as per the workplan;
- Support community members as required for adoption and compliance to RTV’s projects and methodologies;
- Provide suggestions to management on potential activities that need to be redone, reviewed or introduced to ensure sustainability of RTV projects, methodologies and improvement in the lives of community members;
Reporting and Administration
- Report every Friday on completed and upcoming activities and key deliverables to Team Lead;
- Debrief once a week with other staff regarding key issues, areas of success and areas in need of improvement to brainstorm possible solutions and next steps;
- Identify key issues and risks for projects during project reporting;
- Complete weekly financial request and submissions to the finance officer;
- Prepare office accountability and ensure bi-weekly submission for receipts to Deputy/District Head;
- Create forecasted monthly plan of activities as related to the project workplan;
- Take photographs and share for data repository;
- Conduct project design review meetings with respective partner villages and provide feedback as required to update project designs and budgets prior to implementation;
- Develop implementation and transition workplans;
- Participate in staff meetings
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Project Officers support the Planning and Evaluation team in data collection, reporting and analysis providing feedback and recommendations to the Deputy/District Head, and the programs team.
Note: Other requirements as might be required by their direct supervisor and/or management.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Raising The Village (RTV) Project Officer job vacancy must hold a University Degree in Business, Economics, Community Development, or related field.
- At least two years of work experience in community development programming, and a demonstrated long-term passion for community development.
Preferred Technical Skills
- Organizes workload effectively while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines;
- Accurately completes multiple tasks while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, available resources and multiple reporting relationships;
- Strong training &facilitation skills;
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written English;
- Fluent in local languages where RTV works;
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite;
- Project management at a village level experience;
- Experience working at community levels and to support their development;
- Energetic and physically able to hike on high terrain, ability to travel 85% of time;
- Able to work independently to accomplish tasks, but also as part of a team to achieve mutual goals and objectives;
- Able to think outside of the box to provide plausible solutions to issues and challenges;
- Strong work ethic, flexible, and able to build relationships with various stakeholders most notably colleagues, and community members.
How to Apply:
All candidates must complete and upload their updated CVs in one PDF document to this form: Project Officer with Raising The Village
Deadline: 6th March 2019
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