Project Officers at a Leading NGO - BayOne Consults

BayOne Consults - Our client, a leading NGO is a youth and woman-led nonprofit organization focused on positively impacting the lives of people in communities, especially marginalized groups, the vulnerable, and the poor, through socio-economic development interventions.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Officer

Location: Abuja (FCT)

Key Areas of Accountabilities
Programme Implementation and Monitoring:

• Lead the implementation of programme activities in line with grant agreement and technical and operational requirements.
• Ensure that implementation is accelerated and on track in line with approved budget and required quality.
• Ensure that effective monitoring and performance management systems are in place for achieving prior agreed programme activity targets, budget allocations and financial expenditures, ensuring that value for money can be effectively demonstrated to the donor and activities and expenditures are compliant with donor requirements.
• Conduct planning meetings with key program staff, while ensuring adequate planning documents are established and maintained
• Prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Ensure that activities are appropriately planned, that delays and constraints are documented, and solutions identified.
• Ensure programs are adequately resourced and oversee timely expenditure of approved budgets, ensuring appropriate spend and proper and effective use of program resources.
• Continuously monitor the project budgets to ensure that activities are delivered on time and variance is kept at minimal.
• Maintain and ensure the timely and accurate updating of project management tools.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning:

• Make frequent visit to project sites to monitor and oversee project implementation and provide technical and managerial guidance/support identifying issues that need timely action and support at different levels.
• Work with the MEAL team to develop tools and ideas to ensure that the program is monitored against measurable and appropriate indicators, and that emerging trends are duly noted and documented
• Support program assessments, evaluations and other reviews required in the program.
• Ensure that learning and good practice is gathered, documented and shared with the wider programme.

Coordination and Representation:

• Internal coordination with other program teams, to ensure effective program integration in the areas of intervention.
• Maintain good working relationships with officials and other humanitarian actors, particularly those within the relevant government agencies local and national authorities including technical departments, INGOs, NGOs, UN agencies.
• Represent and maintain good working relationships among the international and local NGO community, among community leadership structures and community-based organizations, and with visiting donor and third-party monitoring teams and other key contacts.
• Encourage teamwork, openness, and honesty among staff and between the organization and its partners.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Management, Development, Sociology, Economics, or other relevant fields.

Experience and Skills:
Essential:

• Demonstrable experience of developing and managing major donor contracts and grants
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, with minimum of 3 years managing a project in an NGO setting the productive accomplished track record with a proven work experience.
• Experience of project and financial management.
• Strong skills in coordinating and collaborating with others in partnership
• Proven track record of accomplishment of task through analysis, definition of a clear way forward.
• Strong representation skills and willingness to speak out for the less privileged amongst senior government, donor and diplomatic officials, both at community, state, national and international levels
• Strong training, facilitation, briefing and presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience of building and leading a team with different backgrounds and expertise
• Computer skills, i.e. Microsoft suite

Desirable:

• Fluent in local languages.
• Knowledge of current trends, activities, and best practices in Nigeria.
• Previous experience in INGOs, UN etc.

Application Closing Date
21st January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send a copy of their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.