Project Coordinator Livelihoods and Agriculture

Job Description and Requirements

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Job Title: Project Coordinator

Employee Contract Type: Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Under the overall supervision of the Project Manager, the project coordinator will be responsible for planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation and reporting of the Climate Resilience & Water Harvesting Project through cash-for-work modality.

He/she will be responsible of the daily oversight of the project operations, including assurance of compliance with standards to assure a high quality programme, coordinating and leading the project staff and liaison with local partners and local authorities.

He /she will be responsible on leading and managing of Climate Resilience, Water Harvesting and livelihoods (Cash For Work) interventions in Maan Governorate, s/he will provide BoQ & technical justification if needed for the water ponds , reforestation , agriculture & support the project team in providing technical training for the volunteer as well as support them within the implementation of the project .

Main Responsibilities:

Project planning and implementation

• Prepare detailed planning of project activities including (Human Recourses, Risk mapping, schedule, budget, quality control).
• Oversee the implementation of the project activities and ensure that they are implemented of a high quality, on-time and within budget.
• Support and supervise the implementation of site daily activities, by conducting regular daily/semi daily field visits to the different areas of operations to monitor the progress of the work.
• Organize and monitor the administrative and financial processes of the project activities.
• Evaluate the ongoing activities and propose new activities.
• Support in assessing the project procurement needs, and managing the procurement processes.
• Provide the required support to ensure timely and accurate project payment are completed.
• Support the related teams in planning and implementing the workers recruitment process.

Project team management and development

• Provides direction and assigns tasks to the project staff, specifies their individual work plans and evaluates individual team members’ performance.
• Support the assigned staff in their professional development, identify their training needs. And supports staff to achieve the objectives defined in their performance plans and provide them with the necessary trainings and technical support.
• Develops with the assigned team, monthly activity plans for their duties and tasks.
• Carry out appraisals and evaluation of the supervision team.
• Conduct team weekly meetings and document the minutes of meeting.

Partnership and coordination

• Ensure coordination with all related local actors and local authorities.
• Establish and maintain strong and professional relations with the project partners, and support related staff to supervise and coordinate partners’ activities.
• Effectively liaise and collaborate with the Project Manager, project teams and WV support departments.
• Participate in internal and external meetings and events within the project scope of work, as delegated from the project manager.
• As requested by the project manager, to plan, conduct and report on donor, partners, media or communication visits or activities.

M&E, Reporting and Data management

• Monitor and evaluate ongoing activities and report on unmet needs and gaps.
• Keep updating and archiving the follow up and progress data in an organized to monitor the project activities’ indicators and achievements.
• Working on developing and upgrading the project data collection and documentation processes.
• Ensure the proper documentation for all project data to be used for analysis and as a reference.
• Assess continuously the project methods, processes and practices and propose improvements.
• Report to the Project Manager the Work progress on weekly bases discussing implemented works, next week targets and challenges.
• Actively participate in preparing and submitting the project monthly report on- time and of a high quality.
• Prepare and submit the monthly progress reports.
• Participate and support as requested in project related assessments or evaluation processes.

Prepare and review engineering designs, plans, specifications, cost estimates and recommendations for the projects in addition to perform design tasks, prepare bid documents including drawings and specifications, and organizing all drawings, reports, calculations, and associated project deliverables, in a close coordination with supervision from project manager.

Serves as a technical resource in assigned technical area; provides technical advice to the junior infrastructure engineer. Oversees and supervise employees engaged in day-to-day activities. as-needed labor or volunteers,

Perform any other duties as directed by the project manager.

Required Professional Experience

• 3 years of full-time technical & professional experience in a similar role.
• 2 years’ experience supervising Agriculture / Cash for Work / livelihood intervention.
• Working experience in tracking expenses, quality control, planning, reporting and overseeing progress
• Leadership and managing team
• Previous experience with INGOs
• Previous experience with governmental agencies (Ministry of Labor), regulation polices & procedure related to the project activities
• Applying & identifying proper cash technique

Required Education,training, license,registration, and certification

• University degree in agriculture engineering (preferred) or/and any other fields with relevant experience
• Knowledge of child protection / child rights
• Excellent written & oral command in Arabic & English
• Computer literate mainly with MSOffice software package
• Good communication skills and ability to build collaborative relationships
• Ability to foster a good team spirit

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

• Thorough knowledge of MS office and engineering tools .
• Commitment to World Vision Core values and mission statement.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible world view, emotional maturity and physical stamina.
• Self-motivated and ability to influence others

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

70% field work

30% office base