Project officer – CCCM Governance /Azazz

About ACTED

ACTED is committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavours to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. The commitment of ACTED and that if our teams is guided by 4 core values:

1. Responsibility: we ensure the efficient and responsible delivery of humanitarian aid with the means and the resources that have been entrusted to us.
2. Impact: we are committed to having the most sustainable impact for the communities and the people with whom we engage.
3. Enterprising-spirit: we are enterprising and engage in our work with a spirit that creates value and overcomes challenges.
4. Inspiration: we strive to inspire all those around us through our vision, values, approaches, choices, practice, actions, and advocacy.

Greening strategy:

ACTED’s greening strategy aims to tackle environmental degradation and climate change while meeting the needs of the most vulnerable who are often those most affected by the deepening environmental crisis. Each ACTED employee will adhere to these principles through key green programming responsibilities:

• Contribute towards the adherence and development of the greening strategy plan.
• Explore innovative green programming opportunities and/or solutions within your realm of responsibilities and roles
• Encouraging and promoting environmental safeguarding processes and environmental programming standards in accordance with SOPs and technical guideline notes

ACTED PSEAH Policy:

The Protection Project Assistant-CCCM has the responsibility to adhere to the PSEAH Policy (Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment). The Protection Project Assistant-CCCM has the obligation to complete all mandatory trainings related to the Code of Conduct and the PSEA policy and report any safeguarding concern such as breaches of organisational policies or codes of conduct according to ACTED’s procedures. Protection Project Assistant-CCCM carries out work duties in a way that does not harm children, vulnerable adults or other staff or volunteers.

Location: Azaz office

Job Purpose

Under the direct management of the CCCM DPM. Governance officer-CCCM is responsible for overseeing and arranging all of the trainings for the camp management unit CMUs, camp committees and local actors under camp coordination and camp management activities.

Chain of Command

Under the authority of:

CCCM Project Manager

Line Management:

CCCM Deputy Project Manager

Working Relations

Internal:

• CCCM team leader
• CCCM Project officers
• Logistics officer
• AME monitors

External:

• Camp Management units
• Camp committees

Other Stakeholders (Humanitarian NGOs, local authorities)

Objectives

To contribute and strengthen capacity of Camp Management Units, Camp Committees and local actors on topics of Camp Coordination and Camp Management “CCCM” activities through training courses

Duties and Responsibilities

• Arrange the training plan and material packages for governance structures. This includes all camp management units “CMUs” and camp committees, and the trainings include but not limited (Humanitarian principles trainings, protection and PSEA trainings, local governance capacity building trainings, leadership and agile management).
• Collaborate with CCCM concerned staff on needed topics and content of training courses eg, coordinate with protection assistant and community mobilization officer, etc
• Prepare and submit OFs regarding the training needs (Venue and materials needed)
• Facilitate in delivering the trainings to the CMUs, camp committees, NGOs staff, and CCCM monitors according to the plan.
• Conduct assessments related to governance structures in the camps through Key Informants Interviews KIIs and Focused Groups Discussions FGDs, etc.
• Contribute to planning either the formation of the local community committees or identifying the existing committees.
• Contribute to developing ToRs and code of conduct for local community committees.
• Attending committee’s meetings and highlight needs.
• Submit weekly/biweekly reports to CCCM DPM on the committee’s meetings and findings.
• Submit monthly and close out reports to DPM.
• Participate in the weekly project operational meeting and provide feedback on the achievements, plan and bottlenecks.
• Report and flag all issues and need from camps to the CCCM DPM.

Key Performance Indicators

• 4-5 CCCM and governance training topics delivered to trainees as planned and needed till Oct 2023.
• FGD and KII conducted prior to Camp committee’s formation in each new camp.
• 2-3 camp committees formed in each camp.
• Close out report written after every training course conducted including pre & post-tests, attendance sheets, training topics, challenges and photos.
• Monthly report submitted to line manager on achievements.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:

• Bachelor university degree or above.
• Minimum 3 years working in Humanitarian Organizations
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, working with as a team member.
• Fluency in Arabic (written and spoken)
• Strong communication, negotiation skills and coordinate skills with several actors.
• Good understanding of SPHERE standards, environment protection and principles of protection mainstreaming.
• Ability to multitask with competing demands under tight deadlines and work under pressure.
• Fully computer literate (Microsoft Office)

Preferable:

• Experience in CCCM and governance projects is highly preferred.
• Good English working skills is highly preferred.
• Experience in camp settings
• Experience in training and capacity-building of staff on topics of governance structures and community participation and mobilization