Project Officer job at Saferworld

The Project Officer will support the effective delivery of the project ‘Strengthening Locally-led solutions to intersecting peace, gender and climate change challenges in the borderlands of Uganda’, and will be responsible for the regular day-to-day implementation, documentation, and operations of project activities.

The Project Officer will hold the overall responsibility for the planning, implementation and delivery of the project, provide technical expertise, coordination and monitoring of the overall programme.

Key areas of responsibility:
1. Work with the Project Consortium Manager to ensure the effective delivery of the project and take responsibility for the regular day-to-day implementation, documentation and operation of project activities.
2. Build and maintain effective relationships in support of Saferworld’s work in Uganda.
3. Ensure regular liaison and information sharing across the organisation.
4. Undertake ongoing monitoring and evaluation and reporting on the project’s work.

Roles and responsibilities:
Support the effective delivery of the project and take responsibility for the day-to-day implementation, documentation and operation of project activities:
• Work with the Project Consortium Manager in coordinating work with partners to deliver timely and high-quality activities, including training, consultation, research and analysis.
• Ensure the delivery of training, including designing, facilitating or co-facilitating where necessary.
• Build and maintain strong relations with staff in partner organisations who are working on project implementation.
• Ensure timely completion of internal reporting requirements and contribute to the completion of donor reports
• Contribute to the development and regular revision of project work plans for Saferworld staff and partners.
• Monitor project budgets on a monthly basis in coordination with colleagues to ensure optimum expenditure of funds and timely and accountable financial reporting by local partners.
Build and maintain effective relationships in support of Saferworld’s work in Uganda:
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with project partners.
• Contribute to the strengthening of Saferworld’s coordination with other civil society organisations, national and international peacebuilding actors in Uganda.
• Represent Saferworld at external meetings, and promote lessons learnt from the organisation’s work.
Ensure regular liaison and information sharing with other parts of Saferworld
• Contribute to cross-organisational learning and sharing, including drafting pieces for the weekly internal news.
• Ensure effective communication of project activities, results and lessons learnt within Saferworld, including contributing to organisational outcome harvesting workshops and biannual reporting.
Support ongoing monitoring and evaluation and reporting on the project’s work
• In collaboration with the Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator, monitor the impact of Saferworld’s work in Uganda and participate in regular debriefings and lesson learning sessions with Saferworld and partners.
• Ensure critical project reflection and reviews take place on regular basis to inform decision making, and that learning informs wider Saferworld community of practice, including within the Saferworld gender team.
• Maintain a database of project outcomes.
• Coordinate staff and donor monitoring visits and evaluations as appropriate.
• Write timely and accurate activity reports and support the Project Manager in the drafting of donor reports.

Capacity strengthening, movement building, and advocacy
• Work with local partners to map and identify existing Transboundary CSO Forums across Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda, and where these do not exist in target areas, seek to establish new forums.
• Support community groups, local partners to develop of common strategies to address threats to pastoralism and other gendered climate/conflict issues which cut across administrative boundaries.
• Support local and national government officials, local partners to facilitate consultations with communities for local/county/sub-national/national authorities and the private sector (including SMEs and women-owned businesses) on the development or improvement of policies and frameworks for effective and inclusive natural resource management and green innovation.
• Build organisational contacts at all levels and represent Saferworld & the project/consortium in relevant networks and fora at different levels.

Funding, budgets and administration
• Support the identification of funding opportunities and establishment/maintenance of relevant donor relations.
• Draft project donor and other reports as necessary.
• Prepare budget forecasts for ongoing projects and funding proposals.

Job application procedure
Submit your CV and cover letter to HR at jobs@saferworld.org.uk (Ref: ADA PO – Kampala)

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