# Programme Officer **Company**: International Rescue Committee **Location**: Caracas **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Non-Profit **Apply**: https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Caracas-Venezuela/Oficial-de-Programas_JR00005244?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_232a209c-7bb ## Description The Programme Officer will support the implementation of the humanitarian response portfolio, with a focus on monitoring activities and coordinating operational teams in the field. The position reports directly to the Emergency Coordinator and works closely with programme officers, teams, partners, and support areas. All functions must be developed respecting humanitarian principles and institutional protocols for safety, protection, and safeguarding. **Main Responsibilities:** - Monitor and support the implementation of emergency portfolio activities, according to priorities, plans, and guidelines defined by the Emergency Coordination and Field teams. - Facilitate operational coordination of programme teams in the field, promoting sequence and complementarity of planned activities. - Conduct periodic visits to implementation zones to monitor progress, identify needs, delays, gaps, or operational restrictions. - Monitor implementation schedules and agreements, maintaining updated information on activity status and pending actions. - Support the organisation of missions, days, distributions, evaluations, and other programme activities requiring coordination between different teams. - Identify situations that may affect implementation plan fulfilment and escalate them to the Emergency Coordinator and/or technical team. - Monitor agreed-upon actions to address identified gaps or difficulties during implementation. - Consolidate information from activities and field visits to contribute to operational response monitoring. **Operational Coordination:** - Facilitate daily coordination between programme teams for articulated execution of field activities. - Monitor operational requirements with support areas, including purchasing, logistics, movements, and others. - Maintain updated monitoring of agreements and actions derived from internal coordination spaces. - Support operational coordination with implementing partners for activity monitoring, schedules, and implementation requirements. - Identify bottlenecks requiring articulation between programmes and support areas and escalate them to the Emergency Coordinator. - Participate in technical or operational meetings related to implementation, documenting agreements and monitoring corresponding actions. **Project Management:** - Support maintenance and updating of management tools for the emergency portfolio, in coordination with responsible teams. - Monitor implementation plans, indicators, monitoring plans, schedules, mission plans, acquisition plans, distribution plans, and others as needed. - Maintain consolidated monitoring of milestones, deliverables, indicators, and key project dates, and report on possible deviations. - Support consolidation of information required for project reviews, follow-up meetings, and reporting processes. - Monitor agreements and actions derived from project review meetings, ensuring documentation and updating. - Support monitoring of programme requirements established in donor agreements, identifying and communicating potential compliance risks. - Support programme teams in organising and updating documentation and supports required for project monitoring. **Requirements:** - University degree in social sciences, project management, international cooperation, administration, social work, or related areas. - At least 2-3 years of experience in social or humanitarian project implementation and monitoring. - Demonstrable experience in implementing and monitoring activities in the field. - Experience coordinating activities with programme teams, operational areas, and/or partner organisations. - Experience using project planning and monitoring tools, including work plans, indicators, schedules, and budget monitoring. - Desirable experience in emergency response and/or humanitarian contexts. - Ability to organise different lines of work, systematically monitor agreements and tasks, and identify implementation problems in a timely manner. - Good communication, coordination, and result-oriented skills, with ability to work in dynamic environments with changing priorities. - Ability and availability to make frequent trips to implementation zones. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. - Experience working with local partner organisations is valued. ## Skills ### Required - project management - coordination - communication - monitoring and evaluation - Microsoft Office ### Nice to have - emergency response - humanitarian contexts - local partner organisations --- Source: [Apply at theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Caracas-Venezuela/Oficial-de-Programas_JR00005244?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)