Programme Officer
Contract: One Year Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Local terms and conditions apply
Sightsavers
are recruiting for an experienced Programme Officer to manage the daily
activities and execution of programmes with assigned partners.
About the role
This
exciting role will enhance the quality of Sightsavers programme
monitoring and reporting and ensure that all projects are aligned with
country policies and Sightsavers’ priorities. Key duties will include:
- Participating
in strategic planning processes to successfully drive the direction and
delivery of cost-effective services and ensuring objectives are met in
line with national policies and Sightsavers’ objectives and goals. - Providing
effective management support, coordination and technical contributions
to support the country comprehensive eye care, education, social
inclusion and empowerment programmes - Being the focal person for
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and providing support to
country teams in developing systems for monitoring and evaluating
programmes performance and providing a culture of learning - Managing
all aspects of the project cycle with partners to ensure that effective
planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial and
asset management, reporting and documentation is delivered for each
project.
About you
To succeed in this role you will need:
- A
degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant field (such as Health
Sciences, Social Sciences, Development Studies or Public Health and
Education). - Post graduate studies in project planning, monitoring and evaluation; and management is desirable
- Substantial working experience, ideally gained within an NGO environment managing social development-related projects
- Experience of health and social programming in partnership with government
- Extensive
programme experience for donor funded budgets preferably in the area of
eye health or a demonstrated record of accomplishment in developing and
managing public health programmes. - Experience of working with projects managed through partners (Consortium, civil society or government)
- Good understanding and hands on MEL tools and activities (especially project cycle management, log frame and donor reporting)
- Excellent project management skills
- Technical
knowledge of two or more of the five leading sub-themes of our
programmes – MEL, Social inclusion, Disability mainstreaming, Gender,
Research and Project Design and Fundraising.
This Programme
Officer role is involved and vital to the ongoing success of our
projects. The above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required
professional skills. Please see the job description for full details.
Closing date: 2 January 2022
We anticipate that interviews, including a role-specific assessment, will take place in mid-January 2022.
To apply
As
an equal opportunities employer we actively encourage applications from
all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident
Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly
encouraged to apply
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