Project Officer at Plan International

The Role
The Project Officer role will include driving the day to day implementation of the EZAKASO & GANA projects in Kilifi County, while ensuring effective partnership management and meaningful engagement of stakeholders to deliver on the project. The role will- be responsible for the implementation of the project’s specified pillars, through mobilisation of project stakeholders, monitoring and reporting on progress of project activities in line with the detailed implementation plan. The role is intended to manage local partnerships (county government, community groups, learning institutions, national NGOs, corporate agencies etc.) and sustain a good working relationship with all stakeholders for seamless project success. The incumbent is expected to apply sound project implementation practices to ensure the project meaningfully reaches and positively impacts program participants. 
The incumbent has a primary responsibility to ensure that partner organizations clearly understand and execute the partnership agreement and plans, while driving program excellence, risk mitigation and project management standards. He/she will actively engage in design and planning process with partners, and actively engage in project implementation, visibility, monitoring and reporting.

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Gender, Project Management, Education or Development Studies.
• Knowledge and experience on sustainable livelihoods and economic empowerment is an added advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in 2 or more of the following program pillar areas: education, clean water and sanitation, food and nutrition, healthcare and income training and empowerment. areas,
• At least 3 or more years of relevant work experience in project management
• At least 2 years of experience managing partnerships in projects
• Demonstrable experience designing and managing gender transformative projects
• Knowledge of women economic empowerment and gender integration best practices
• Hold personal values, ethics and attitudes which are in alignment with the principles of the Plan’s values
• Motorcycle riding skills and experience as the tool of trade.
• Experience planning, organizing and facilitating trainings/workshops at school and/or community level

Qualifications/ experience desirable: 

• Strong report writing skills
• Documentation of project impact stories of change
• Community facilitation, networking, partnership development and management skills
• Good communication, negotiation and advocacy skills
• Good interpersonal, relationship and team working
• Conflict Management skills
• Experience in humanitarian programming
• Experience in program phase out management