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Vacancy Announcement
Position Title: Program Officer
Reports to: Programs Coordinator
Work schedule: Mondays-Saturdays (48 hours)
Duty Station: Montserrado, with frequent travels to counties of operation
Opening Date: November 25, 2019
Closing Date: December 6, 2019
Organization that works at the grassroots level in 4 counties in Liberia (Grand Gedeh, Gbarpolu, Rivercess & Montserrado) and focuses on providing various support in the education sector, particularly at the primary school level. KEEP also engages in women & girls’ empowerment, economic livelihood, access to justice, promotion of rights in schools, strengthening youth education through computer and reading literacy programmes, child sponsorship and advocacy.
Job Summary:
The Program Officer is responsible for supporting with program activities including the development of concept notes, budgets, work plans, conducting of field training on a wide variety of activities including but not limited to gender and education projects. The Program Officer will also support with community engagement, information dissemination, fundraising etc.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
• Serves as lead on key donor specific projects as assigned.
• Prepares monthly program reports for projects being managed.
• Attends consultative meetings with relevant coalitions and forums and ministries to represent KEEP and provide feedback summary.
• Supports with the development of concept notes and ideas on programme being developed or applied for.
• Support project monitoring and document progress include successful human interest stories of impact.
• Organize and maintain a proper filing and documentation system for programme activities.
• Coordinates the compilation of KEEP’s Annual Report.
• Support with the compilation of stories of impact for KEEP’s blog and website and social pages.
• Support with developing of training plans and modules.
• Ensure implementation is in compliance with KEEP’s established policies and procedures.
• Perform any other duty as may be required.
• Collate information on donor-funded projects and produce a donor reporting schedule.
• Perform any other duty as may be required.
Requirements
• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Education.
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• Minimum of three years previous work-related skills with a non-governmental organization.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office 2003/2007, ability to use word processing, spreadsheet, data analysis package and database software; email and internet
• Community engagement experience is desired.
• Good communication skills required. Both written and spoken.
• Must be able to communicate fluently in English (written & spoken).
• Ability to multitask and deal with stressful situations and problem solve.
• Ability to work in a fast pace environment and a team setting.
Available to work at flexible schedule that may include evenings and sometimes weekends and or holidays
Interested candidates are asked to send their applications to info@keeplib.org Or apply through the system below.