JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:    

 Programme Officer

Reporting to:

 Program Manager

Contract Type:

Full time, fixed term one year, with possible extension

Principal Location:

Hargeisa, Somaliland

Updated:

July 2023

 Background:

AET as part of Street Child group, believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children. AET vision is taking one million children to Schools and one million more.

AET is looking for dynamic competent young professionals to part of current innovative approaches in education protection and humanitarian. If you feel you can the fit the purpose, we are recruiting program officer(s) to work with AET/Street Child Somaliland and Somalia team.

Part 1:  Role Purpose:

As program officer you will be working with programme team to administer portfolio of AET/street child projects in education, protection and humanitarian. The post holder with the guidance of regional representative reports to program manager and provides quality leadership for the programme design, implementation and coordinate the programme activities.  

Part 2:  Key Responsibilities:

• Program design, implementation, Coordination and evaluation (50% of role)
• Assist in development and implementation of programme strategies, work plans including monitoring and evaluation plans.
• Work with other program staff to develop detailed work plans and spending plans for all AET Street child projects that will ensure organized, efficient work and on-time completion of activities
• Assist in developing and implementing projects and communication strategies, including activities undertaken by partners
• Collection, analysis and presentation of information needed for program development and implementation, and assist in proper communication for the donors
• Assist in the operational and financial management of responsible programmes /projects and ensure that necessary program management and financial procedures are properly implemented and reported on timely basis.
• Track and report on program implementation, fund utilization, and provide financial reports on timely basis as needed.
• Provide technical assistance on designing a context specific AET/Street Child models including TaRL (teaching at the right level) and other approaches
• Support to program development staff in securing new projects through identifying opportunities and developing quality proposals.
• Foster and maintain relationships with community to develop and implement projects.
• Participate and actively engage in coordination meetings relevant to the projects
• Promote an effective team and provide oversight and mentorship to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
• Any other program duties as identified by the Country representative
• Monitoring, and Quality Control (20% of role)
• Provision of overall leadership and technical support for mentoring, monitoring and documentation of lessons learnt, support assessments.
• Visit program sites to verify that activities are implemented as planned and are high quality, relevant and safe as per AET’s programming approach  and report any concerns to the country representative
• Input into the development of theory of change, M&E and indicator tracking plans for the projects
• Continuously identify and document programming issues in projects target areas and agree reporting mechanisms with program manager, involving community level initiatives.
• Capacity building and knowledge management (20% of role)
• Develop the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of local staff and other partners in key aspects of program management and implementation.
• Train key stakeholders as needs arise
• Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders.
• Apply innovative approaches and promote good practice to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable project results.
• Research and report on best and cutting-edge practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems.
• Draft, brand and achieve project deliverables including case studies, success stories and communication
• Advocacy and Networking (5% of role)

• Represent AET at sector level committee and working group meetings
• Development of case studies for the purpose of reporting, advocacy and media efforts
• Advocate for the improved protection of vulnerable children, especially children affected by conflict, displacement, or natural disaster
• Other (5% of role)
• A strong commitment to AET’s vision, mission and values
• Adhere to all AET’s policies and procedures
• Able to represent AET appropriately both internally and externally
• Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and a covering letter explaining why you think you could make an extraordinary candidate in this role to [email protected] and cc/copy to [email protected] 

Please indicate ‘Programme Officer - Hargeisa’’ in the email subject line.

Application submission deadline

Deadline for submission of applications Wednesday 19th July ,2023 at 12:00Am.

We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.