Humanitarian Project Management Officer Full-Time

Ayuda en Acción is hiring a Humanitarian Project Management Officer based in Pemba.

Job description

Humanitarian program

Based in Pemba, Ayuda en Acción responds to the needs of crisis affected populations, focusing their humanitarian response predominantly on the conflict induced displacement crisis in Cabo Delgado province. With a multi-donor approach, we respond to immediate shelter, CCCM, WASH and protection needs of displaced and vulnerable host communities and support the nexus with income generating and development activities.

We implement activities directly, as well as through local partners.

Objective of the position

Under direct supervision of the humanitarian coordinator, the Humanitarian Project Management Officer will have as primary objective the strategic and operational design, planning and follow-up of humanitarian activities in Mozambique.

The Humanitarian Project Management Officer will be based in Pemba.

Responsibilities

Project Management

• Supports the planning, organization and implementation of activities of the projects in coordination with involved stakeholders;
• Supports proposal and budget development processes;
• Leads monitoring of activity implementation, beneficiary counting and indicator achievement using the existing monitoring tools;
• Provides technical assistance and support to the team.

Management of budget and procurement processes

• Supports project managers in the budgetary planning process according to the activity implementation plans;
• Supports the budget monitoring;
• Supports and participates in procurement processes;
• Supervises compliance with the AeA minimum logistics compliance regulations.

Knowledge management

• Updates and maintains partner and donor data bases;
• Supports and supervises baseline studies, PDM, assessments and other studies;
• Supports context analysis and produces reports.

Relations with key stakeholders

• Participates actively in humanitarian clusters and technical working groups representing AeAs humanitarian activities and interests;
• Coordinates effectively with other relevant (government/ donor/ Civil Society) stakeholders.

Reporting

• Produces high quality donor reports.

Capacity Building

• Effectively builds project management capacities of the program staff.
• Strengthens the implementation of gender, age, protection and disability inclusion mainstreaming.

Obligatory requirements

1. Education:

• Bachelor degree in social or political sciences, humanitarian action, international development or any other related area and a minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience, or
• Master’s degree in humanitarian action, international development or any other related area and a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.

2. Relevant experience and expertise

• Strong knowledge on the humanitarian architecture and basic principles;
• Proven project management experience in humanitarian and development contexts;
• Technical knowledge and experience in the areas of WASH, Shelter, Protection and/or CCCM will be a strong asset;
• Knowledge on administrative, logistical and procurement procedures are an asset;
• Dominion of informatics tools relevant for project/program management (MS office, Kobo, SPSS, etc.).

3. Skills

• Proven experience in team management;
• Proven positive leadership experience;
• Strong representation and coordination skills with internal as well as external actors;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Proactive and problem-solving attitude;
• Strong sensitivity for security concerns;
• Willingness to work in a conflict context.

4. Language skills

• Full working proficiency (written and spoken) in English is a must;
• Working proficiency (written and spoken) in Portuguese is a must and strong asset (Spanish or Italian can be accepted, as well).

Terms and Conditions

• Immediate incorporation;
• 1-year contract with three-month trial period. Can be extended according to performance and funding opportunities;
• Full time employment;
• Salary in line with AeAs salary scale and the previous experience;
• 1-year contract;
• Access to the AeA expatriate package.

Others

• Participates in AeA internal meetings.
• Implements those tasks inherent to the position that are requested according to circumstances and needs.