Project Officer - Doctors Worldwide Turkey
Background
Yeryüzü Doktorları Derneği (YYD) or Doctors Worldwide Turkey serves communities that are victims of hunger, poverty, drought, disease, war and conflict, natural and human-induced disasters, without discrimination regarding religious, linguistic, racial, political, and philosophical views, working through local partnerships.
YYD began working in Gaza in 2001 initiating different projects as: medical education, lab care unit, and physical therapy clinic, in 2015; YYD opened its branch in Gaza to supervise its projects and provide sustainable services as Medical Home Services Program that cover all Gaza Strip areas.
Job Summary:
YYD is seeking a Projects Officer to work to provide a high-level coordination and organizational support to the projects of the organization and to plan and coordinate project activities, including scheduling, reporting and document control.
YYD encourages candidates to apply for this job vacancy to be then included in its team working in Palestine.
S/he will be reporting directly to the Gaza Officer Manager
- Job Title: Project Officer
- Department/ Country: Gaza Office/ Palestine
- Position Type: Full-Time
- Starting Date: ASAP
- Duration: 12 months with the possibility of extension (first three month is Experimental (
- Salary: Based on Salary Scale USD
- Job Location: Gaza Office
Main duties and Responsibilities:
- Closely supervise all projects schedules, monitoring deadlines for each project task and checking regularly that every deadline is still possible, and report any potential delays to the manager;
- Participate in the drafting of work plans, budgets, procurement, and monitoring plans as well as necessary updates;
- Supports the monitoring and implementation of the plans;
- Supervise the overall project team and ensure close collaboration with the admirative team
- Conduct field visits are required to verify project activities relative to stated targets
- Develop the evaluation and follow-up and build a meal system.
- Assist the manager in supervising the overall projects teams and ensure close collaboration with the administrative team;
- Assist the manager in implementing the project according to the project proposal including budget monitoring of activities;
- Assist in managing the projects’ budget to ensure that the budget line items are expended as per approved budget;
- Liaise with external parties and local authorities to facilitate project implementation and process;
- Prepare weekly/monthly reports on project achievements and project activities;
- Responsible for day-to-day project correspondence, information sharing, appropriate follow-up, and assisting in preparing evaluation reports;
- Coordinate and oversee the overall implementation of the project's processes.
- Oversee the work of the project officer.
- Ensure all new team members are adequately briefed on arrival in the field, and departing team members are debriefed;
- Actively participate in the regular project-related meetings.
- Coordinate with the MEAL team and follow up on the processes of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning.
- Represent YYD wherever necessary, including via media programs, via interviews, and participate in collaborative meetings with government and other partners, workshops, and conferences.
- Ensure that all confidentiality and the right to privacy are maintained about confidential beneficiary and project information;
- Ensure adequate filing for the entire project documents.
- Abide by YYD codes of conduct;
- Perform any other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Skills:
- Good computer skills (MS office, particularly MS project)
- Professional reporting & proposal writing skills in English.
- Professional communication and representation skills, with excellent written and spoken English.
- Strong leadership and supervising capacity.
- Budgeting and financial management skills.
- Strong project management skills
- Team worker with ability to work under pressure.
- Commitment towards principles and ethics of humanitarian aid
- Professional proposal writing skills
- Valid driving license.
- Ability to work under pressure and in unstable environments
- Cultural sensitivity; previous experience in the region is preferred.
How to Apply:
Qualified candidates can fill the form provided in the following link containing the last two employers as references and please attached C.V And Cover letter
Submission deadline is on Monday, 04/09/2023at 3:00pm
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.