Assistant Project Officer

GIT Consultancy Overview

Goal Institute for Training and Consultancy (GIT Consultancy) is a Consultancy, research, and Training firm established by a group of professional experts in the area of institutional and organizational

GIT Consultancy is dedicated to offering high-quality research services in the most complex and logistically challenging environments across Somalia. GIT Consultancy is specialized in monitoring and Evaluation, research, organizational development, institutional capacity development, and business advisory.

GIT Consultancy undertakes recruitment, deployment, and managing people with the right skills to implement humanitarian and development projects through working with clients that seek GIT Consultant’s services. The key to successful project delivery is the ability to mobilize at speed; GIT Consultancy can source and deploy anyone, anywhere, in less than 2 weeks.

Through our efficient and agile HR, logistical and operational services, GIT Consultancy saves humanitarian organizations time and money through effective and efficient service delivery. We handle all our clients’ HR-related issues based on integrity, competence, integrity, and competence.

GIT consultancy is currently recruiting for the above position on behalf of Somali Community Concern (SCC)

Introduction

Somali Community Concern (SCC) is a non-political and non-profitable, humanitarian relief and development organization that works to save lives, and promote self-reliance and dignity through human transformation going beyond relief and development. Founded on 9th April 2003 by a group of Somali intellectuals and activists, who came together to improve the resilience of Somalia’s community to realize their full potential in responding to community challenges. In line with its mission, SCC has endeavored to support communities to address the myriad of threats and risks to food and livelihood security by facilitating the implementation of an integrated livelihood support and resilience program.  The organization works towards harnessing unrealized economic potential, unutilized indigenous resources and knowledge responsive to community needs and priorities.

1. Project Background

Somali Community Concern (SCC) will implement a camp coordination and camp management project in Daynile – Banadir region to provide life-saving services to drought-affected IDPs. In line with the CCCM Cluster Strategic Objectives for January 2022, SCC will seek to strengthen camp coordination and camp management structures to coordinate the delivery and monitoring of humanitarian services to improve the living conditions of IDPs living in Daynile District. In order to reach this objective, SCC will contribute its expertise and contextual knowledge to the cluster system. Furthermore, SCC will work with the communities to guarantee that governance structures are in place and accountable to population needs while ensuring that both sites are organized, maintaining basic infrastructure, and guarantying site monitoring, site mapping, and contributing services to new arrivals or relocated IDPs.  In line with the 2022 CCCM Cluster Strategy- execution of capacity building with staff, partners, community leaders, and local authorities where necessary in coordination with other CCCM partners in Daynile and the CCCM Cluster.

The program is funded by OCHA  and seeks to contribute to the core strategic objectives of Somalia HRP 2022 Strategic objectives SO2 and SO3 that is to Strengthen safe access to multi-sectorial services at the site level through improved site management and coordination, improve living conditions of displaced people through site-risk identification followed by site development, care and maintenance, and decongestion initiatives and Strengthen community self-management and access to information for displaced populations.

Under the overall implementation and in close cooperation with OCHA, the Project Assistant is responsible for the day-to-day activity management of the project throughout the implementation.  SCC is looking for a professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill CCCM Project Assistant position in Somalia.

Terms of Reference (ToR)

1. Responsibilities and Duties

Project implementation

CCCM Assistance Project Officer will play an integral part of SCC CCCM response in the IDP sites of   Somali region. This will require constant interaction with the Program Coordinator as well as with sites coordination structures and humanitarian partners. The CCCM Assistant Project Officer will also have an administrative responsibility of ensuring that project assistant staff as well as daily workers are actively following their ToRs and abiding by SCC Code of Conduct.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

Partner coordination

• Liaising with all humanitarian partners and local authorities/other stakeholders working in the sites for delivery monitoring and coordination of service delivery purposes and for developing of Community Wellness Centre/outreach activities content
• Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines
• Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of activities
• Promoting Partners attendance in community coordination meetings to promote accountability of all relevant stakeholders to affected population
• Monitoring of service provision by partners at site level in close cooperation with the communities, partners and stakeholders
• Ensure that principles of data confidentiality are respected in information management activities and that sensitive data of beneficiaries are protected when stored or shared if strictly necessary
• Timely reporting any gaps and/or duplication in service delivery and communities needs emerged during daily activities
• Timely reporting any risk of evictions identified daily activities to the line manager

Protection mainstreaming

• Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of project activities
• Promoting and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, SCC staff, and partner agencies).
• Supporting and promoting the participation of women, youth, people with specific needs, and marginalized groups in project activities.
• Ensuring principles of data confidentiality are respected in information management activities and that sensitive data of beneficiaries are protected when stored or shared.

Project management and reporting

Planning, Implementing, and Reporting

• Supporting the line manager in devising weekly and long-term work plans for the project implementation, particularly or information management activities.
• Attending regular staff coordination meetings.
• Timely reporting on problems and challenges in the site to the line Manager
• Timely submission of weekly report, information products and updated databases as requested by the line manager

Transparency and Compliance

• Ensuring compliance to SCC internal procedures and donor procedures
• Accurate record keeping of project documentation, including photos and proper filing of meeting minutes, databases, attendance sheets, assessment reports/documents, review and updating of databases etc., in soft and hard copy

HR

• Commitment to continuous learning through trainings and timely identification of capacity-building needs and opportunities, in coordination with line Manager/HR Dept.
• Supervise recruitment of enumerators when needed for data collection
• Train Enumerators

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Supporting Appraisal Monitoring Evaluation (AME) team in beneficiary identification, registration, and verification
• Supporting Appraisal Monitoring Evaluation (AME) team in the Post-Distribution monitoring exercise

OTHER DUTIES

• Provide translation of various documents (e.g. reports, minutes, beneficiary lists, information signs) upon request
• Perform any additional task as requested by the line Manager.

Subordination:

The employee works under the direct supervision of the CCCM Program Coordinator.

Candidates meeting the above requirements are highly encouraged to send their applications, CVs, and three references to [email protected] copying [email protected] and [email protected] by 14th November 2022. The subject of the email should read, ‘’PROJECT ASSISTANT”. SCC offers equal employment opportunities to all applicants regardless of their nationality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis and the vacancy may be filled before the stated deadline. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Disclaimer: At no stage of the recruitment process will GIT Consultancy ask candidates for a fee. This includes during the application stage, interview, assessment and training.

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