Program Officer at So They Can Kenya

Program Officer Project Delivery:

• The Program Officer supports the Program Coordinator in ensuring that the projects plans are planned completed on schedule and on budget while meeting the project’s objectives.
• Collaborate with Program Coordinator in providing direction for the projects to ensure the education program is achieving its objectives and goals.
• Assist in designing and implementing the Baringo Education Programme, mainstreamed with cross-cutting and child safeguarding issues.
• Participate in project design, proposal development and contractual agreements.
• Support Program Coordinator to ensure project outcomes are delivered to quality required by the programme and to schedule, within set budgets and scope.
• Plan and manage day to day of the projects including workplans, reports and support organization wide activities and campaigns as needed.

Leadership Management:

• Provide training and support to attaché and volunteers in regards to their roles and responsibilities as assigned.
• In liaison with the Program Coordinator, map and identify the project participants.
• Providing volunteers and primary actors with necessary skills and resources to improve education activities.
• Support recruitment, induction/orientation and training activities.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting:

• Participate in monitoring project activities to ensure that they are implemented in a systematic and timely manner to follow work plan targets, achieve technical requirements and complete deliverables in accordance with project agreements and budgets in Baringo.
• In liaison with the Program Coordinator, Monitor and track project budget expenditures in Baringo.
• Compile and write timely and quality activity, monthly, quarterly and annual project reports for activities.
• Prepare success stories, case studies and other reports as assigned by the Program Coordinator.
• With support from the MEL office coordinate and participate in project data collection exercises in Baringo.
• Support the monitoring and evaluation team during monitoring of project and program evaluations in Baringo.

Desired Skills and Competences

• Project management skills
• Child Protection and safeguarding skills
• Excellent communication skills: Written and Verbal.
• Good coordination, facilitation and presentation skills
• Community Mobilization Skills
• Crop Management Skills
• Project monitoring and evaluation skills
• Budget development and management skills.

Education and experience:

• Bachelor of Education, Arts, Social Sciences, Community Development, Project Management, or any other relevant field.
• Proven experience in Farm management
• Minimum 2 years proven project implementation experience in NGO’s, demonstrating the capacity to manage budgets.
• Demonstrated understanding of the global Child Protection and safeguarding practices.
• Significant experience in budget preparation, quality report writing and editing skills.
• Significant Monitoring and evaluation experience of education projects.
• Experience in stakeholder’s engagement, especially Ministry of Education and Sub County administration.

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