Responsibilities
Objective 1: To plan the project and coordinate its proper implementation
Project Launch and Planning
- Plan, organize and conduct kick-off meetings, ensuring the participation of all relevant departments ensuring the clear outcomes of the meeting: understanding of the roles are reached; clear communication channels are established; project objectives, potential risk scenarios/responses, budget, indicators, and project timeline are presented.
- Develop and finalize comprehensive project management tools: detailed workplan, MEAL plan (in collaboration with MEAL team), risk management matrix, and procurement plan.
Team Management and coordination
- Recruit, mobilize, and manage the dedicated project team, ensuring clear objectives, action plans, and accountability for each member.
- Conduct regular team meetings and progress reviews to monitor implementation, identify bottlenecks, and implement corrective actions in coordination with support departments.
- Ensure effective liaison with technical departments (WASH, Health, Food Security) to guarantee outputs meet technical standards and are delivered on time.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Maintain regular communication with the Head of Base, local authorities, and partners for project approval, implementation support, and issue resolution.
- Represent ACF in relevant working groups, cluster meetings, and donor coordination forums.
Logistic, Budget & Financial Management
- Work closely with the technical department when producing Procurement Request and to ensure the project outputs are delivered in line within the expected technical standards and within the expected timeframe. Proposed corrective actions whenever required to comply with the expected outputs.
- Oversee monthly budget forecasting, expense tracking, and consumption analysis; propose budget revisions as needed to avoid under/overspending.
- Review monthly transaction lists and BFUs, update projections, and ensure compliance with donor financial guidelines.
Reporting & Documentation
- Ensure timely preparation and submission of all project reports (APRs, intermediate, final, and ad-hoc reports).
- Ensure all documents related to the projects he/she is leading are documented and archived properly (hard copies and on ACF online systems); Provide clarifications in required by the auditors.
Objective 2: MEAL and communication
- Work closely with MEAL team to timely plan and implement all monitoring and evaluation activities foreseen in the project (as per M&E plan). Whenever possible, participate to such activities (AMR, PCM, baseline, end-line, etc.).
- Conduct regular field visit to monitor the project implementation, identify difficulties and implement correctives measures.
- With the MEAL, capitalize on lessons learnt and best practices of their project/s, and contribute to internal evaluation exercises (in collaboration/with participation of partners, if needed) with the aim of improving the quality of services delivery to the beneficiaries.
- Ensure all visibility activities are implemented according to Project and donor requirements.
- Attend all relevant internal and external meeting with partner related to the project – authorities, working groups, donor…
Objective 3: Security and risk management
- Monitor the security context in project areas and ensure compliance with ACF’s security protocols.
- Identify and anticipate risk on the project implementation, propose mitigation measure and coordinate with the relevant department.
Objective 4: Gender & Safeguarding (cross-cutting)
- Promote safe and equitable environments, through knowledge and application of the protocol against harassment and gender policy.
- Knowledge and compliance with safeguarding policy.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in humanitarian field, business administration, technical fields or any other relevant field.
- Knowledge of Project Cycle Management (Logical Framework Approach), including budget follow up Management of projects, including from remote and in volatile security contexts.
- Different sectors concepts, programs, and indicators, specifically WASH, health and nutrition, FSL
- Narrative Reporting
- M&E tools and methodologies
- Protection and gender mainstreaming in project implementation and monitoring
- Desirable knowledge of SHF (OCHA pool fund)
- Minimum 2 years in similar responsibility
About us
An international Non-governmental, Neutral and independent Humanitarian Organization, which combat to deliver humanitarian assistance in the crises areas all over the world.
It has been working in Syria since 2009 with the Iraqi refugees and then in 2012 with the Syrian population affected by the current crises in the country.