Programme Officer at VSO, Harare, Zimbabwe
Employment at VSO as Programme Officer
Deadline: 30 January 2017
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Programme Officer in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Programme Officer will assist the Country Director in developing, implementing and monitoring the country programme strategy and projects, ensuring alignment with VSO international programme framework, the relevance of programmes within the local context, and efficiency and effectiveness in programme implementation.
VSO’s mission is to bring people together to fight poverty.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Programme Officer will perform the following functions-
- Ensure project outcome delivered to quality required by the programme (with specified risks and benefits), to schedule within set budgets and scope.
- Provide a key co-ordination and implementation role, ensuring project management standards are followed and deadlines met.
- Support VSO partners to effectively plan, implement and report on projects in compliance with VSO and donor requirements.
- Prepare monthly programme reports for submission to the country director.
- Assist volunteers and partner organisations to organise national and international knowledge management and exchange sessions.
- In coordination with the country director, facilitate the mainstreaming of gender, social inclusion and child protection in projects and programmes.
- Prepare orientation programmes for new volunteers and debriefings (at the end of their placements) and support partner organisations in the preparation of orientation programmes for new volunteers.
- Support volunteers to ensure partners effectively plan, implement, monitor, and report on projects in compliance with VSO and donor requirements.
- Conduct monthly support visits/meetings with volunteers.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Experience of planning and managing projects with multiple stakeholders, delivering expected benefits in challenging contexts to tight deadlines.
- Ability to build effective working relationships, inspiring confidence and credibility with employees at all levels. Strong influencer of others.
- Ability to work effectively across a globally dispersed organisation.
- Experience of matrix management of project team members across a global organisation.
- Excellent coordination and planning skills with experience of working under pressure.
- Experience of successfully monitoring and managing budgets.
- Ability to analyse and quickly grasp the fundamentals of a need or issue.
- Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Ability to manage a project in a climate of change, recognising and being open to ambiguity, uncertainty and opportunities.
- Prince 2 project methodology qualification.
- Experience of managing change in an international environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to vary communication content and style to suit audiences to inform, motivate and inspire.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
https://goo.gl/7CytTM