Local development officer
وزارة الداخلية - الأردن
Total years of experience :12 years, 5 Months
- Involved in Setting up the governorate strategic plan.
- Setting up educational support schemes in areas of deprivation - identifying potential learners amongst local young people, parents or families.
- Arranging redundancy counseling and retraining for workers when a major industry closes down.
- Supporting the sports and leisure department in developing youth projects.
- Enabling people with learning disabilities to be at the centre of planning their own lives.
- Seeing that disease prevention programs are targeted at the groups most at risk, such as elderly people.
- Making sure that members of the communities have access to health and education services.
- Arranging support for disadvantaged individuals and families.
- In rural or remote areas the CDO might combat geographical isolation and depopulation by:
- Supporting housing associations which provide affordable housing to local people.
- Investing in improving local transport facilities.
- Helping the community organize a local arts festival.
- Negotiating with bus or ferry companies to adapt their timetables to suit the school day.
- Take control of the budget for one or more projects at a time.
- Keep accurate financial records.
- Create publicity to promote the various schemes.
- Provide information amongst the various groups and organizations.
- Write reports on projects.
- Liaise with local communities and networks such as Social Inclusion Partnerships.
- Liaise with voluntary groups and charities.
- Liaise with all government departments and government bodies.
- Implementing focus group discussions in Mafraq governorate to determine community priorities.
- setting-up (guidebook of needs) for Mafraq governorate.
- Assist with determination of project requirements.
- Assist the PM in the drafting and issuance of project proposals, RFP’s, tenders, budgets, cash flows, SOPs, and preliminary schedules.
- Use project scheduling and control tools to monitor projects plans, work hours, budgets and expenditures.
- Effectively and accurately communicate relevant project information to the stakeholders and project team.
- Issue Contracts, Letters, Purchase Orders, etc.
- Assist the PM in the review of Contractor quotations to ensure that only fair and reasonable pricing is recommended for approval.
- Keep the Project Manager (PM) and others informed about project status and issues that may impact client relations.
-supporting program in the field of NFI\cash voucher programming, food distributions.
- Communicate ideas for improving the project with a positive and constructive attitude, and for developing this attitude in others.
- Setting up training plans for CBOs, project team and volunteers to ensure quality project implementation.
- Assessing the CSOs and develop an action plan in coordination with the line manager.
- Effeciant in organizational Capacity Assessment.
- Develop a capacity-building action plan based on GOCA results.
- Chair site meetings and distribute minutes to all project team members.
- Assist the project manager in project activities, including the oversight, administration, supervision, and management of all contract performance for a professional staff.
- Assist the project manager in identifying and hiring personnel when a request is placed for temporary or additional permanent staff;
- Working with the project manager on budget follow up and project spending plans.
- Leading the referral mechanism and the referral focal point in north of Jordan for ACTED.
- Experiences in ECHO and OCHA fund-project implementation.
- Assist the project manager in monitor and follow up WASH approach in ITS locations.
- Setting the project Documents (TORs, SOPs, Implementation plan, Log frame, Activity plan, Budget forecast).
- Preparing, and implement CBOs capacity building plans.
- Develop monitoring tools In coordination with the M&E department for cash modalities and ensure the monitoring reports are produced on time for management review.
- Leading the process of cash assistant with, bank, beneficiaries, program team.
- Keeping ACTED stakeholders informed about projects update.
- Responsible for Prepare and submit the project activity report to the line manager.
- Provide necessary coaching and mentoring during the capacity-building plan of Co-applicants and CSOs.
- Take the lead on identifying CSOs capacity building needs through assessment activities.
- Manage the community mobilizers and guide them in field level.
- Coordinate with the communities in determining mutually convenient times and venues, as well as suitable participants, for project related meetings and activities.
- Assist the communities to undertake the community needs analysis.
- Assist in mobilizing communities to participate in project activities by motivating and consulting with the community members.
- Work closely with volunteers nominated by the community to facilitate the smooth transfer of knowledge to beneficiaries.
- Facilitate project activities as required in ways consistent with the project strategies.
- Assist with formal data gathering for planning purposes and for participatory monitoring and evaluation.
- Leading the distribution chain north of Jordan ACTED.
- Work with Data entry TEAM-LEADER to select the most vulnerable families.
- Assist in the development of a project strategy to precede in north Jordan governorates.
- Carry out social mobilization in vulnerable communities, conducting participatory appraisals and create awareness. Identify emergency needs and examine secure methods before
- Provide regular progress reports to the project deputy on the activities in relation to the work plan and establish a well-defined monitoring system for the activities within the preview of the TOR .
- Be responsible for administrative, logistical and financial management of the CM staff.
-Build, improve, and enhance training tools.
-Draft a training plan.
-Drafting key messages that help to improve the workshops.
-Build a comprehensive training package.
-Training children how they have to deal with any case they subject to in their life .
- Planning publicity strategies and campaigns.
- Writing and producing presentations and press releases .
- Dealing with enquiries from the public, the press, and related organizations .
- Organizing promotional events such as press conferences, open days, exhibitions, tours and visits.
- Speaking publicly at interviews, press conferences and presentations
- Providing clients with information about new promotional opportunities.
- Designing, writing and/or producing presentations, press releases, articles, leaflets, ‘in-house' journals, reports, publicity brochures, information for web sites and promotional videos.
