Program Officer (Mombasa) at Mercy Corps

General Position Summary

• The Program Officer is a key member of the program team and will report to the Chief of Party. She/he will support the day-to-day program team in the identification of the needs and opportunities and provide relevant information to facilitate the program team’s ability to develop activity ideas.

 Essential Responsibilities

 PROGRAM SUPPORT

• Work with the Sauti Chief of Party and consortium partners to support all relevant aspects of Sauti implementation in pursuit of the program goals and outcomes.
• Provide updates and analysis of key developments in targeted thematic areas or geographies.
• Identify needs and opportunities and provide relevant information to facilitate the program team’s ability to develop activity ideas.
• Work with the grants team and downstream partners to develop organized, complete and thorough budgets that are harmonized with grant applications.
• Under the direction of the Chief of Party, develop and maintain relationships with organizations/ actors in key target sectors (e.g. faith organizations, youth groups, women’s organizations, CBOs/local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), local government officials, etc.).

 MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• Work with the monitoring and evaluation team and partners in program monitoring, evaluation and learning with:
• Support with tracking partners’ activities – attending all events in the targeted counties, as relevant.
• Support partners on activity-level M&E efforts, ensuring quality, reliability, and consistency in data collection efforts using program M&E templates.
• Help identify lessons learned from project implementation and facilitate the incorporation of those lessons into the activity development cycle.
• Meet regularly with the program team to evaluate project progress, identify successes, challenges and lessons-learned; and adjust practices as necessary to improve performance.
• Prepare and submit to the program team reports of specific events, field trips and meetings attended.
• Support the team in effectively utilizing established monitoring and evaluation formats and provide feedback for their improvement.
• Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibility

• None

Accountability

Reports Directly to: Sauti Chief of Party

Works Directly with: Sauti Senior Program Manager, Director of Programs, PAQ Department, Partner Staff, Technical Advisors

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in conflict/peace studies preferred, or appropriate social science discipline, community development, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years professional experience, including (preferably) in implementing peace, Prevention of Violent Extremism and Conflict related projects.
• Highly developed analytical skills, including the ability to support design targeted activities to positively affect desired PVE outcomes with at-risk individuals and communities.
• Ability to interact effectively with the diverse project stakeholders especially with the security sector and electoral bodies.
• Experience working in PVE programming, conflict or post conflict settings and conflict sensitive programming.
• Experience working with stakeholders including the private sector, government, youth and women groups.
• Experience in project monitoring and evaluation.
• Strong analytical and report writing skills.
• Previous working experience in Mombasa and the Coast region is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge and skills with the of MS Office applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.