Project Officer (National Position)

JOB PURPOSE:

Under the direct supervision of the Health Program Manager, the Project Officer (PO) shall contribute to all aspects of Project Cycle Management (PCM) of the health project in Borno State. This includes a contribution to operational planning and supervision of project delivery, project staff, quality management, accountability and compliance with humanitarian and donor requirements. The PO will liaise closely with MEAL and accountability the department, logistics, HR, and finance horizontally and vertically through the PM.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supports in the operational planning, implementation and monitoring of SV projects in close collaboration with the project MH and NCD Activity Manager (MAM), WASH supervisors, Senior Protection Officers (SPOs), logistics officer, assigned MEAL staff, and the Accountability Officer.
• Supports the PM in planning and tracking budget expenditures and accountability, ensuring that cash held by staff are closed in a timely manager.
• Monitors and consolidates sector leave plans and shares with PM for approval and onward submission to HR and ensures strict adherence to leave schedule.
• Enhances teamwork and capacity building in order to ensure the delivery of quality aid to beneficiaries and their communities.
• Leads the coordination with HR regarding the recruitment of national staff, including drafting staff requests based upon JDs shared by line managers and ensures timely integration of new staff into teams.
• Supports the PM and security coordinator in enforcing security compliance by staff, including obtaining movement clearances, reporting of security incidents etc.,
• Supports the PM, HR and Line Managers in enforcing compliance with Organization’s policies and humanitarian principles, ensuring that there is a safe space for reporting and/or whistleblowing breach of Code of Conduct, fraud, etc.
• Supports MEAL in planning and supervising field data collection, and the PM in monitoring all field activities and tracking the performance of project performance indicators against the agreed targets and reviewing log frames, theories of change, context analyses and needs assessments that would inform programming.
• Leads in preparing PRs, following up with procurements to ensure that goods and services are delivered just in time and supervise distribution plans and reports.
• And any other task as assigned.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of B.Sc./HND in Project Management, Public Administration, Economics or related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years’ project management experience in multinational working environment
• Work within the framework of INTERSOS Nigeria’s core values.
• Act as an ambassador for INTERSOS Nigeria, through professionalism and conduct.
• Adhere to all INTERSOS policies and procedures both technical and administrational.
• Undertake and apply learning from appropriate training and development programmes.
• Project management experience, especially in managing projects directly funded by international and institutional donors, is an advantage.
• Ability to put up with job pressure;
• Ability to deliver high quality work;
• Good child care skill.