Program Officer, Romania – Ukraine Response

Contract length: 6 months, with possible extension, contingent on funding

Location: Romania, work from home

Travel: Limited, within Romania

Reporting to: Romania/Moldova Country Program Manager

Salary range: 2,700 – 2,950 USD/month

Deadline for applications: June 27, 2022*

*Due to the urgency of this vacancy, screening and interviews will commence immediately and the candidate can be selected at any stage before the closing date.

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

We offer in addition to salary:

• an innovative work environment with a diverse and passionate team,
• 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of floating holidays,
• the flexibility of home-based/remote work,
• accommodation and per diems when on deployment.

The role

The Program Officer will support CLEAR Global’s deployment of language and communication support to the humanitarian response in Romania reporting to the Romania/Moldova Country Program Manager. Their primary role will be to help facilitate implementation of CLEAR Global activities, including dissemination of materials, coordinating program activities such as training and language services, and attending UN coordination meetings (remotely).

The role can evolve, so flexibility and the willingness to adapt to changing circumstances is crucial.

Responsibilities

Partner liaison and networking

• Attend (remotely) UN weekly coordination meetings.
• Share key information from UN coordination meetings back to the CLEAR Global team.
• Coordinate with NGO partners to deliver program activities, including organizing trainings, collecting feedback, and serving as a general focal point between them and CLEAR Global
• Maintain positive and productive relationships externally and internally

Implementation of program activities

• Support Country Program Manager with inputs to project proposals
• Planning and delivery of program activities as per the project proposal
• Maintain accurate, clear and compliant project documentation
• Draft and compile donor reports
• Organize and maintain Romania project files
• Support research projects being done by the Research Advocacy and Data teams, including logistical and admin support, as well as basic research support tasks as needed

Please note that these roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications

The right candidate is an energetic and proactive team player, a good communicator and advocate, and an enthusiastic organizer who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and who can work virtually and face to face with team members based throughout the world.

Essential skills and competences

• Experience or knowledge of non-profit organizations, especially development or humanitarian organizations
• Understanding the importance of language in humanitarian and development action
• Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, Social Sciences, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Fluent in Romanian
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships remotely and face to face.
• Experience of project monitoring a plus
• Ability to work independently, efficiently and reliably, to a high standard and to tight deadlines
• Flexible and able to innovate to find creative solutions
• Good organizational and logistic skills, and an attention to detail
• Sensitivity to cross-cultural dynamics in the workplace and ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team
• Resilience, flexibility, and a good sense of humour

Job requirements

The successful candidate will need to have access to a stable internet connection and a computer to be able to carry out the role.

Background

In an emergency, CLEAR Global provides language support to facilitate vital two-way communication between the people affected and humanitarian responders. This happens both remotely and on the ground. Remotely, CLEAR Global works with a global network of linguists to translate text, audio and audiovisual content from and into the languages of crisis-affected people. We also provide information, guidance, and language mapping support to humanitarian organizations. On the ground, country program teams offer a range of support, from research and training to glossary development and pictorial communication tools. We are also leading the development of language technology for marginalized languages. This has the potential to shift the power dynamic in emergencies and international development contexts, placing control of communication and information access in the hands of the people in need of support.

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 80,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.