Job Title: Project Officer (5 Job Opportunities)
Organisation: Raising The Village (RTV)
Duty Station: Rukungiri, Kisoro and Kanungu, Uganda
About US:
Raising The Village International (RTV) is a Canadian non-profit organization focused on ending extreme poverty by eliminating immediate barriers of scarcity, nurturing income-generation activities and building local capacity, while moving communities toward economic self-sufficiency. For more information, please visit https://www.raisingthevillage.org
Job Summary: The Project Officer works within a cluster team and reports to a Team Lead. RTV Project Officers work to implement RTV methodologies throughout the implementation and transition phase of a partner village and cluster. They work in collaboration with various stakeholders, including government officials, community members, suppliers amongst others.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Project Management and Expense Reporting
- Report every Friday on completed and upcoming activities and key deliverables to Team Lead
- Debrief once a week with other staff regarding key issues, areas of success and areas in need of improvement to brainstorm possible solutions and next steps;
- Identify key issues and risks for projects during project reporting;
- Complete weekly financial request and submissions to the finance officer;
- Prepare office accountability and ensure bi-weekly submission for receipts to
- Deputy/District Head
- Create forecasted monthly plan of activities as related to the project workplan on the 3rd week of every month o Support the Programs Director as requested on project specific activities
Monitoring and Evaluation: Project Officers support the Planning and Evaluation team in data collection, reporting and analysis providing feedback and recommendations to the Deputy/District Head, and the programs team.
Administration and Coordination:
- Complete photographs and sharing for data repository
- Review and understand project designs and provide feedback where required
- Conduct project design review meetings with respective partner villages and provide feedback as required to update project designs and budgets prior to implementation;
- Develop implementation and transition workplans
- Participate in staff meetings as required Implementation and Facilitation:
- On-going Management of Workplan and Budget
- Management of infrastructure programs
- Completion of training and facilitation programs
- Implementation of programming
- Implement community management and training
- Monitor performance of programs and maintenance
- Identification of risks and issues
- Conduct on-going interviews of leadership and community on performance, participation, and perceptions
- Track and review on-going financial reports and progress
Transition Role
- Establishing and maintaining the integrity of community project
- Ensure the outcome and adaptability of the activities introduced in the community are continued
- Implement transitional phase as per the workplan
- Support community members as required for adoption and compliance to RTV’s projects and methodologies
- Provide suggestions to management on potential activities that need to be redone, reviewed or introduced to ensure sustainability of RTV projects, methodologies and improvement in the lives of community members
- Note: Other requirements as might be required by their direct supervisor and/or management.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Raising The Village (RTV) Project Officer job vacancy must hold a University Degree in Business, Economics, Community Development, or related fields
- Three years of work experience in community development programming, and a demonstrated long-term passion for community development.
- Organizes workload effectively while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines
- Accurately completes multiple tasks while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, available resources and multiple reporting relationships
- Strong training &facilitation skills
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written English,
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite
- Project management at a village level experience
- Energetic and physically able to hike on high terrain, ability to travel 80% of time
- Able to work independently to accomplish tasks, but also as part of a team to achieve mutual goals and objectives.
- Able to think outside of the box to provide plausible solutions to issues and challenges
- Strong work ethic, flexible, and able to build relationships with various stakeholders most notably colleagues, and community members.
- Fluent in local languages where RTV works
How to Apply:
All qualified and interested candidates should send a letter of application and curriculum vitae including address, telephone contact and two references as one document to: recruitment@raisingthevillage.org.
Please note:
- Properly formatted PDF or Word documents are preferred.
- Indicate the position you are applying for and the district you are interested to work in in the subject line, for instance “Name –Project officer – Rukungiri District”
Deadline: 12th November 2018
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