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Duties and Responsibilities:

The following are the core duties of the Project Officer:

• Work closely with project partners to provide hands on technical support to HEYO implementation and other health projects as and when need arises.

• Conduct regular field visits to monitor the progress of programmes and projects on the ground and ensure effective oversight of and support of local partners taking corrective action with minimal delay.

• Maintain effective coordination with other Project leaders/coordination to enable the development of an integrated and innovative portfolio.

• Maintain effective coordination with the programs manager to ensure timely and correct measurement of results, outcomes and impacts and to facilitate learning towards continuous improvements in the design and delivery of programmes and projects.

• Identify and mitigate operational risks for HEYO project

• Lead HEYO activity and project reporting and documentation of best practice and lessons, change stories, generate and document partner feedback. Timeliness and quality of reports; document activity and monthly reports and ensures compliance with donor reporting standards.

• Participate and contribute ideas in programs and projects development; create possibilities to acquire funds of institutional donors.

• Assesses which information is relevant for planning, monitoring and evaluation purposes; fills in the required PME format and assesses what extra PME information beside the standard formats is of importance.

• Analyses and draws conclusions from PME information and makes these accessible to stakeholders; Develop clear quarterly work plans and budgets for validation by the Project Manager;

• Check budget vs expenses for tasks assigned to him/her; inform the Project Manager immediately on cases of fraud and/or corruption or over – / under spending more than the norm, affecting the program results;

• Deliver timely and good quality input to project reports as requested by the Project Manager

• Assesses which results are relevant for communication and fundraising purposes, collects these and formulates texts in accordance with quality standards of the Communications department. Collects and filters necessary information for open data sources. Delivers good qualitative information to the Communications department in time.

• Ensure that SRHR Alliance programmes and partnerships are actively represented in coordination structures. Share progress and update on programme activities within the cluster system and relevant donors.

• Maintains contacts with partners and field offices focused on the effective and efficient implementation of programs. Makes agreements with partners regarding the achievement of substantive results, increasing their expertise, organizational sustainability and accountability in accordance with the guidelines of donors.

• Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor.