# Project Officer

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Project Officer will be responsible for the overall day-to-day coordination, and follow-up of a project implemented through a local partner in Tyre. The goal is to support conflict-affected Women and Girls to recover with greater safety and well-being, enabled by quality services and resilient community structures.

**Major Responsibilities**

**1. Project and Partner Coordination:**

- Lead the day-to-day coordination of the project implemented by the partner, ensuring activities are delivered according to the approved project proposal, workplan, and budget.

- Serve as the main project focal point with the implementing partner and maintain regular communication to monitor progress, address implementation challenges, and ensure timely follow-up.

- Review partner workplans, implementation plans, activity schedules and provide guidance to ensure alignment with project objectives and targets.

- Track project progress against agreed indicators, deliverables, milestones, and targets, identifying delays, gaps, or implementation risks and proposing corrective actions.

- Conduct regular partner monitoring visits (jointly with the relevant IRC technical staff where needed), fill observation tools and implementation reviews to assess progress, quality, compliance, and adherence to agreed standards.

**2. Monitoring, Reporting and Data Quality:**

- Work with MEAL colleagues and partners to ensure appropriate data collection, verification, documentation, and reporting mechanisms/MEAL tools are in place.

- Conduct regular meetings with the IRC’s MEAL focal point to track partner achievement.

- Review partner reports and raise any concerns to the technical senior managers.

**3. Partner Capacity Strengthening Coordination:**

- Coordinate the assessment of partner capacity and identify areas requiring additional support, coaching, or technical assistance with input from technical teams.

- Coordinate with Senior Managers to develop and follow up on partner capacity-strengthening plans and track their implementation against the agreed timeline.

- Coordinate access to coaching, training, and technical support for partner project staff from the relevant IRC technical teams (MHPSS, SRH, Protection) and provide day-to-day operational and project-management support to the partner project team.

**4. Coordination and Representation:**

- Participate in relevant internal coordination meetings.

- Maintain effective coordination with relevant Protection and Health actors, authorities, UN agencies, and other stakeholders at field level in Tyre and South Lebanon where appropriate.

- Represent the project and IRC professionally in relevant meetings, workshops, and coordination platforms when needed in close coordination with the Head of Department.

- Promote integrated, cross-sector referrals within IRC, especially between Protection and Health.

**Job Requirements:**

- 3-4 years’ experience with an NGO and/or international organization with proven experience coordinating with local implementing partners.

- Familiarity of case management and management of community-based activities.

- Excellent organizational skills, timeliness, ability to determine priorities and great attention to detail.

- Familiarity with program design, including budgeting.

- Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation.

- Proactive, flexible, team spirited and willing to learn.

- Demonstrated contextual knowledge and relevant experience working in South Lebanon, with a strong understanding of the local context, communities, and specific project needs.

- Excellent computer skills including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work as a team, as well as independently.

- Fluency in Arabic and English.

## Skills

### Required
- case management
- community-based activities
- program design
- budgeting
- M&E system design
- implementation
- organizational skills
- timeliness
- priority determination
- attention to detail
- proactive
- flexible
- teamwork
- Arabic
- English
- MS Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint

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