Duties and responsibilities
Specifically,
the Project Assistant will
work closely with the Project Officer to perform the following tasks:
- Project Management:
- Participate in planning of project activities
and set high quality performance targets, ensuring adherence to technical
standards, best practices, and donor guidelines.
- Review and track progress of project
implementation and utilization of project resources, using participatory
processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
- Maintain up-to-date documentation related to
project monitoring and implementation, including up-to-date performance
data on the indicators being tracked by the project.
- Ensure a working environment of mutual trust,
respect and care with other staff, encouraging effective teamwork with
staff members and partners.
- Identification, recruitment and retention of
beneficiaries
- Budget and Financial Management:
- Ensure that project activities comply with CMMB
financial guidelines, policies, procedures and regulations.
- In collaboration with the finance teams and
supporting the project officer, ensure timely payments of project
beneficiaries and provide liquidation reports.
- Participate in the preparation of annual project
budgets, quarterly and monthly budgets.
- Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Use appropriate project management tools to
plan, review and track project progress on project implementation.
- Promote innovative/effective methods towards
achievement of project objectives.
- Support documentation processes of project
success stories, best practices, lessons learnt and other project
innovations and learnings.
- Supervise and mentor the Linkage assistants,
community champions, CHVs and other community actors towards creating and
enabling environment for TB patients.
- Support implementation of community-based
project activities to ensure adherence to set quality standards.
- Monitor the performance of linkage assistants,
champions, CHVs as well as other community actors and continuously mentor
them as needed.
- Work with the Project and M&E Officers to
prepare donor project narrative reports, collect monthly and quarterly
performance data, as well as other reports needed/required.
- Regularly organize and coordinate meetings with
key stakeholders on project progress and challenges.
- Partnership:
- Engage stakeholders at all stages of the project
cycle for their insights on the appropriateness of project approaches and
interventions.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Community
Health or related field.
- At least two -year experience in community
health work within a public health focused Non-Governmental Organization.
- Experience working with health service delivery
professionals (e.g. Community Health Workers, health care workers)
- Extensive understanding of Community Health
Strategy and working with the various structures under the Community
Health Strategy.
- Highly organized, flexible, and adaptable to
changing priorities and able to work well under deadlines with minimum
supervision
- Excellent computer skills using MS Word, Excel,
PowerPoint and Outlook—You must have demonstrable ability to format
documents, prepare charts and manipulate data
- Excellent verbal and written communications
skills to include conflict resolution, priority management, and managing
expectations of multiple clients
How to Apply
