Education Project Officer
UNRWA
Total years of experience :13 years, 6 Months
Duties As Project Officer in Education Programme:
- Monitors projects' implementation and progress from inception to completion.
- Prepares budget estimate, monitors and controls financial expenditure of the projects.
- Prepares regular reports to track immediately and shortage, delays, or bottlenecks hindering the implementation of projects.
- Prioritizes projects related to Education Programme and identifies ideas for new projects, whether construction or non-construction, and prepares project proposals accordingly.
- Maintains contacts with counterparts in UN organizations, NGOs, embassies and community organizations and updates them on progress of specific projects; sources new potential donors and facilitates donors' assessment visits to projects.
- And Other duties as needed.
About UNRWA:
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees. The Agency began operations on 1 May 1950.
The Agency’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency assistance, including in times of armed conflict.
- Develop, monitor and implement project work plan according, project plan, donor agreement and AVSI policies.
- Develop and monitor project budget and expenditures.
- Ensure that program/project goals and plans are implemented on time and within budget and according to donor/partner/other stakeholder's compliance requirements.
- Evaluate activity progress and determine necessary actions to be on track.
- Liaise with Project Manager, Liaison officer, logistics, Safety and Security, HR etc. and all stakeholders
- Ensure sound administrative practices regarding record keeping, compliance with donor / AVSI regulations, communications, etc;
- Frequent travels to the field to attend project sites and provide support to team as needed.
- Represent AVSI in related working groups and other stakeholder or coordination meetings, as needed, and maintain a positive, continuous and visible presence for AVSI;
- Assist in writing of proposals, provide technical input, writing and budgetary input for new program design;
- Perform any other tasks under the guidance of the direct supervisor;
- Coordinate the implementation of the project in accord with the proposal;
- Supervise a team of project staff, including PSS technical supervisors, to ensure the proper implementation of project activities;
- Conducting monitoring missions to all governorates related to this project;
- Submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports as scheduled to the Country Director;
- Submit monthly and quarterly work plans to the Deputy Country Director
- Respond to recommendations made by the Deputy Country Director or evaluators in order to ensure efficient and effective project implementation and goal attainment;
- Conduct a baseline study and beneficiary selection using an agreed beneficiary selection criteria and common data collection in agreement with the partner;
- Participate and contributing to the working group meetings.
Non-profit organization industry.
A Program Funded by UNICEF and Implemented by St. Ephrem Patriarchal Development Committee.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating the annual work plan of the Youth Development Center that includes:
1. Vocational training courses.
2. Youth employment program.
3. Youth entrepreneurship training program & Seed funding.
4. Youth Health Promotion Program.
- Responsible for managing the administrative affairs of the center that includes:
1. Team Leader of the staff.
2. Develop Working tools and documents of daily work.
3. Interview and test the vocational courses trainers.
In charge of:
- Planning, implementing and managing vocational short-term courses related to Syrian labor market.
- Planning, implementing and managing english and ICDL courses.
- Prepare The UNRWA courses-related financial documents in cooperation with financial officer & Assistant and procurement officer (TOR for contracts, Prepare contracts, Request for payments, and cash advance).
- Conduct a labor market survives to insure the relativity of the vocational courses to labor market.
- Creating registration points on the duties areas (Yarmouk, S.Zainab, Husainia, Dahiat Kudsaya, Dummar and Mazzeh).
- Became the main contact person for registration.
- Insuring the quality of training for Palestinian refugees.
- In charge of the comprehensive Database and statistical reports and ensure the accuracy of the statistics.
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