The Project Officer reports to the Project Manager and plays a frontline role in the direct implementation of the Unlocking Opportunity Project with participants. She/He is responsible for supporting the coherence between project strategy and day-to-day execution at the field level, ensuring that planned activities are implemented effectively, inclusively, and in line with approved workplans. The Project Officer contributes to the quality and impact of the project by coordinating activities within assigned hubs, supporting partner organisations during implementation, and applying agreed monitoring and control mechanisms. She/He supports the coordination of project activities with partner organisations, contributing to joint planning, routine progress tracking, data collection, and compliance with HI and donor requirements. The Project Officer plays a key role in maintaining strong working relationships with partners and stakeholders at the local level, following up on activity implementation, timelines, and deliverables. The role includes day-to-day supervision of activities within assigned locations, supporting field teams and partner staff, consolidating activity-level reports and data for submission to the Project Manager, identifying and escalating risks or implementation challenges, and promoting collaboration and learning across hubs. The Project Officer represents the project at operational-level meetings and forums as delegated, and ensures that project activities effectively reach young people with disabilities, particularly girls and women, in line with the project’s objectives.
Responsibilities
Mission 1: Operational
Implementation
Responsibility 1: Contribute to
project planning and implementation in line with the existing frameworks
- Contributing
to planning and preparing activities, tools and the associated resources,
and implementing the action plan in conjunction with the support services
and the technical unit.
- Ensuring
that activities are implemented and that resources are correctly allocated
as authorised by the Project Manager
- Ensuring
regular reporting of activities, and contributing to the internal and
external reporting as requested by the Project Manager.
- Contributing
to identifying areas of the project in which adjustments are required and
putting forward adaptations to the Project Manager.
Responsibility 2: Contribute to
project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
- Contributing
to project monitoring, specifically activity progress indicators and the
expected outcomes.
- Contributing
to project evaluations at the request of the project manager, and ensuring
that project evaluation recommendations are followed.
- Contributing
to project learning
Responsibility 3: Ensure project
data management
- Ensuring
that the appropriate data collection and management tools are in place and
are used correctly on the project, in line with global standards.
- Collecting
and compiling project-related data in the relevant database.
Responsibility 4: Contribute to
the coordination of project teams
- As
authorised by the Project Manager, facilitate coordination meetings
between the project teams and the support services located in the area
when necessary.
Responsibility 5: Contribute to
external project communication
- Contribute
to HI’s external influence by taking part in networks, when required.
Mission 2: Emergency Preparedness
and Response
- Contribute
to the programme’s emergency preparedness initiatives, and in an emergency
situation, adapt his/her working arrangements to contribute to an
effective humanitarian
Educational background and experience
- Bachelor’s
Degree in a Social Science, Community Development, Sociology or any
related discipline or a Diploma with at least 5 years of working
experience.
- Knowledge
and practical skills on the project management cycle, economic
development, business development, and services will be an added advantage
- At
least 4 years’ experience working in community development with a
background in livelihood/economic development in a humanitarian context.
- Experience
working with persons with disabilities is an added advantage
- Experience
in Government stakeholder engagement
- TOT
certificate will be an added advantage.
Specific Frameworks
- Knowledge
on UNCRPD Article 27 (Work and employment promote opportunities for
self-employment, entrepreneurship, the development of cooperatives and
starting one’s own business)
- Sustainable
development goals, SDG 8 (Decent work and economic growth).
- Computer
Skills
- Solid
knowledge of MS Office suite.
Language skills
- English
and Kiswahili
How to Apply
If you feel you are the right
candidate for this position, kindly send your application along with an
up-to-date CV by email to :- jobs.kenya@hi.org. The
email subject line should be marked: “ Unlocking Opportunities Project Officer,
Kenya ”. Please do not send your academic and other testimonials they will be
requested at a later stage.
