HeShe will ensure that education projects are managed in line with established policies and procedures, requiring the day-to-day management of tasks including planning, organizing, staffing, reporting, and directing resources to ensure that it meets its intended goals. The program officer will be also providing support to the team to close some gaps in tasks or any other tasks assigned to himher by the line manager.

General Work Experience:

Minimum 3 years of experience as a Program Officer with relevant experience and understanding of the same sector.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage the successful completion of assigned projects on a day-to-day basis to ensure the effective and accountable management of ATAA projects.
• Set Project plans (detailed implementation plan, procurement plan, human resource plan, spending plan…etc.)
• Ensuring effective implementation of projects that meets contractual obligations including all partner/ donor policy, procedures, rules and regulations
• Ensuring activities are in line with community and beneficiary needs
• Ensuring project activities are implemented to a high quality based on protection cluster and sub-clusters recommendations and standards.
• Managing Budgets and understand Financial Reports
• Managing project team effectively
• Ensuring proper project documentation and compilation of project data
• Maintaining proper communication with the partner and donor
• Sharing information with donor, technical sector cluster, other NGOs and coordination structures
• Contribute to the overall process of proposal writing, as well as taking responsibility of preparing the support documents as needed.
• Ensure risks are appropriately managed, including financial, safety and security, programmatic and reputational
• Ensure all internal and external narrative, statistic, and financial reports (weekly, monthly, interim and final) are submitted within agreed timeframes to the relevant stakeholders
• Coordinate closely with the program manager on the project implementation progress
• Work closely with other departments on all issues related to assigned projects.
• Follow-up the periodic files with the supporting departments according to what is assigned
• Conducting field visits to educational projects and meetings with project staff and beneficiaries to verify the implementation of all procedures according to policies.

Skills:

• Languages: Fluent in English and Arabic (writing –reading –speaking) other language will be desired especially Turkish
• Computing: Proficient in Microsoft Office including, excel, word, outlook etc.
• High level of awareness in the Syrian context with its recent updates, and the relevant humanitarian interventions and needs.
• Communication skills: negotiating, facilitating and presenting as well as strong verbal and written communication skills
• Time management, organization and work prioritization
• Being analytical with strong attention to detail
• Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Decision making
• Project Management
• Remote management
• Collaborative and cooperative with other related departments e.g. supply chain, finance & grants, HR …etc
• Flexibility to deal rapidly with numerous and often simultaneous problems in an effective manner
• Patient and good communicator who can function in an organization employing a multi-national staff, and whose sites are geographically distributed in areas of the country difficult to access during certain periods of the year