External Relations Officer
Oxfam
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :12 years, 10 أشهر
Delivered powerful influencing that will have demonstrable positive on the lives of poor and crisis affected communities, through both direct liaison and as part of strategic alliances. Implement advocacy strategies that meet programme quality standards and are designed to engage, Developed close working relationships with officials. Working closely with the Policy Advisor. Developed close external working relations with Jordanian Government, civil society organizations and institutions and collaborate regularly to build effective strategies, Facilitated collaboration with Oxfam colleagues in country programmes and Government Officials to ensure that in-depth and accurate analysis of Jordan context feeds into relevant Oxfam strategic influencing plans or power analysis, Provided guidance to the funding team to ensure adherence to the Government of Jordan reporting and approval processes, provide support to the funding team with the drafting of project and programme reports for government departments and manage the submission and approval process, support whole country team to ensure all aspects of project and support operations are fully compliant with GoJ regulations.
Contributed to JIF strategy development, project proposals and provided input on needs and gaps, Promoted and shared ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities, Ensured capacity building of JIF members staff and transfer key skills, Liaised and collaborated with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders, Promoted the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with JIF advocacy strategy, Provided specific technical input to coordination mechanism, Supported the overall goals of JIF by strengthening working groups, answering member questions, and collecting and sharing information.
• Provide guidance to the funding team to ensure adherence to the Government of Jordan reporting and approval processes.
• Provide support to the funding team with the drafting of project and programme reports for government departments and manage the submission and approval process.
• Establish and maintain a government approval and report tracking system.
• Maintain a filling system for official communications with Government Departments.
• Ensure that the correct sign-off procedures are applied to any government communications.
• Support the Funding Officer to ensure they have access to sufficient information to request relavent documents from the donors for GoJ approvals and that any relevant information can be communicated to the donor in a timely manner.
• Support other departments (e.g. logistics, HR, finance, admin) where necessary to ensure any government reporting and communications is carried out to a high standard and on time.
• Support the admin team in ensuring the maintenance of Oxfam’s overall registration in Jordan and assist with obtaining visas and work permits when necessary.
• Assist and support whole country team to ensure all aspects of project and support operations are fully compliant with GoJ regulations.
• Represent Oxfam to GoJ and other external stakeholders as appropriate.
• Lead on liaison and communications with national and sub-national Government, including: national line ministries (MoPIC and the Ministries for Water and Irrigation and Social Welfare and Development)
• Establish and maintain relationships with key representatives within national and sub national Government
• Liaise with key government staff to maintain a detailed understanding of government approval and reporting requirements.
• Participate/lead (as appropriate) direct negotiations and issue resolution with national government bodies and advise project managers and teams in the field in relation to negotiations and issue resolution with sub-national government.
• Support the Country Director and other senior staff in coordinating and collaborating with Government departments and other national organisations (civil society, private sector etc.)
• Maintain a data base of key contacts within government, civil society and the private sector
• Arrange field visits to humanitarian projects in coordination with programme staff and government personnel.
• Draw up a government engagement strategy for relevant line ministries.
• Build capacity within the programme team and partner staff, by training staff on government regulations and priorities.
• Provide support for inductions, guidelines and other resources to assist programme teams and partner staff.
• Help the Funding Coordinator to run compliance training where necessary.
• If necessary, support Funding Officer and programme staff in conducting partner assessments in terms of their ability to comply with government regulations.
• If necessary, support the Funding Officer to develop, implement and maintain an effective partner grants and reports monitoring system, ensuring adherence to OGB policies and procedures on partner management, linked to government compliance.
• Co Founder, Co Chair of the Government Liaison Working Group (GLWG)
Conduct comprehensive assessments, evaluations, and analysis of Asian donor countries' development assistance program in Jordan; monitor effectiveness of programs' performance and management operations; track projects' budgets, disbursement, and expenditures; report on identified problems in performance; perform coordination with donors and Jordan line Ministries benefiting from the assistance for follow up and for windows of new development projects and programs; develop strategy frameworks for bilateral cooperation with Asian donor countries; provide input in Jordan's mid-term strategy plan; prepare annual foreign assistance performance reports; review proposals for new grant and loan agreements for applicability to Jordan's laws and regulations; provide knowledge and effective oral presentations to senior Ministry officials.
Initiate and develop a strong relationship with potential clients; manage growth of new business by transitioning them to be loyal customers of Bayt.com; Acquire companies that have no significant revenue history with Bayt.com; determine clients’ needs and convince them to buy Bayt.com recruitment solutions; increase Bayt.com customer reach; and handling objections.
Conduct office correspondence (official letters and emails), assist in preparing HSS II events, and liaise with other line department to compile statistics; supervising on shipping medical packages to Jordanian hospitals.
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• B.S. degree in Business Administration (2011, University of Jordan, Amman-Jordan) Main courses: Operations Research , Operations Management, Human Resources Management, Strategic Management, International Management, Financial Analysis, Banking, Managerial Accounting, Statistics, Insurance, Marketing, Customer Behavior, Information Recourses Management, Entrepreneurship, Automation, E-Commerce, Computer Skills and, Communication Skills. • The Jordanian High School Certificate (Tawjhi) in 2006, Islamic Scientific College • English Language certificate level 7 in 2003 • Two weeks Military training with the Jordanian forces in 2004 • On hand Microsoft office training