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.