Duty Description
Key Duties and Responsibilities: The Project Officer works with RTV project partners, prospective villages, coordinates with third parties, and supports all aspects of project as follows:
Assessments and Data Collection:
- Conduct the initial project visits for prospective visits
- Complete the preliminary assessment report identifying key priorities of community members
- Create the recommendations and content for discussion with team for project selection
- Conduct the full community assessment and populate necessary data for design and load into Dropbox including; Stakeholder Assessment, Risk and Issues document, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, Logframe, Workplan and Budget
- Project Viability Models and additional plans
- The jobholder will document key contact information of (LC3, LC1, CDO, and specific individuals)
- Tasked with community mapping and needs prioritization
- Conduct Household income surveys and village data surveys for Design and M&E Team
- Complete photographs and sharing for data repository
- Create a five-year plan community vision document
- Conduct project review with the RPS, OM, NPO, and peer review for approval
Required Qualifications
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicants for the Raising The Village Project Officer job opportunity should preferably hold University Degrees in Business Administration, Economics, Community Development, or related fields
- A minimum of three to five years’ experience in community development programs, and a demonstrated long-term passion for community development
- Computer literacy i.e. proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, etc
- Project management at a village level experience
- Energetic and physically able to hike on high terrain, ability to travel 80% of time
- Fluency in local languages (Lufumbira/Lukiga & Lunyankole) must be highlighted in the application/CV.
Desired Skills:
- Organizes workload effectively while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines
- Accurately completes multiple tasks while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, available resources and multiple reporting relationships.
- Strong training & facilitation skills.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written English, and team player
How to Apply:
All qualified and interested candidates should send a letter of application and curriculum vitae including address, telephone contact and two references to: recruitment@raisingthevillage.org
NB:
- PDF documents are preferred, and include all relevant information in your letter or CV, no other documents should be forwarded to the hiring committee.
- Please indicate your position of interest in your email or subject line.
- Resumes received after the deadline will still be considered in a future round.