Action for Humanity Organization is a non-governmental, non-profit, neutral organization that looks forward to rebuilding human life and building a generation capable of advancing society by providing them with all the necessities of life such as food, medicine, education, medical aid, and water.

Position: Livelihoods and Women Empowerment Project Manager.

Direct manager position: Project officer

Project/ Workplace: Northeast Syria, Deir Ezzor - Hajin.

Advertising start date: 21-02-2024.

Deadline for receiving applications: 15-03-2024.

Note: Due to the urgency of this position, CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the vacancy can be filled before the specified closing date.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

·         University degree or higher in Agricultural Engineering, Food processing Engineering, Gender/ Women’s Studies, project management, Development Studies or any other relevant field.

·         Minimum 5 years of experience working with Communities in Livelihood and women empowerment programming and project management in an NGO context.

·         Familiarity with Cooperative concept and food processing field is an advantage

Skills & Abilities:

·         Demonstrated experience in Livelihood project and more specifically women empowerment

·         Demonstrated experience in relevant economic empowerment projects.

·         Experience in project management (e.g., monitoring, reporting).

·         Experience with integration / mainstreaming of economic resilience and conflict-sensitivity across other programmes and projects is a plus.

·         Experience in working with communities.

·         Familiar with the concept of cooperatives

·         Strong technical capacity Iin the field of Food Processing is an advantage.

·         Effective Communication Skills

·         Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

·         Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment, handle multiple assignments and meet deadlines.

·         English (professional/working level)

• Arabic (native/professional written and spoken)

·         Strong analytical, documentation, problem solving, interpersonal and negotiation skills.

·         Ability to work with different partners, local authorities, local organizations and NGOs, to develop and maintain positive relationships.

·         Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity and physical stamina.

·         Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.

·         Ability to cope and deal with stress and work under stressful work conditions is a requirement.

General Description of the Role & Main Responsibilities:

 Provides effective support for the implementation of the Women’s cooperatives’ project.

·         Coordinate the overall project work plan implementation according to the Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP).

·         Gather inputs and support the preparation of periodic narrative progress reports for the partner and the donor.

·         Record and maintain documents on relevant Project activities, issues, and risks.

Manage coordination, implementation, and operations with project operations staff to execute project activities.

·         Identify capacity building needs and support beneficiaries through technical assistance, mentoring, training, and capacity development initiatives, as needed.

·         Support the Project officer at executing project activities including implementation and monitoring and engaging with government stakeholders.

Supports the monitoring and reporting on the project at national level.

·         Gather and compile all information necessary for monitoring and reporting on the project.

·         Monitor the implementation of activities and the expenditure of funds; conduct regular monitoring visits, as required.

·         Draft and provide inputs to annual and quarterly reports; coordinate the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports.

·         Contribute to the preparation of internal and external reports, as per requirements.

·         Document lessons learnt and best practices from experience and comparative initiatives; incorporate learnings into the ongoing work and suggest ways to improve the processes of the Humanitarian and Recovery work based on this review.

·         Perform any other duties assigned by the line manager.

Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication.

·         Document the programme implementation process and products.

·         Contribute to the exchange of information and provide inputs to the development of knowledge products internally and externally of the programme.

·         Coordinate the organization of events and trainings.

·         Facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the women’s groups.

• Identify sources and compile data and information for the preparation of documents, guidelines, and other materials as required.
• Contribute to briefing materials, meeting notes, notes for file, PowerPoint presentations and other documents for the team and keep all papers ready for meetings.
  
  
   
  

• How to Apply: If you wish to apply for the advertised vacancy, kindly fill out the job application form through the following link: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/d1OtSizt

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  Action for humanity doesn’t discriminate in its recruitment process against any race, religion, or gender and maintains a transparent recruitment process. The humanitarian intervention of Action for Humanity has no political, or religious affiliation nor has any monetary purpose.