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Economic Empowerment Project Officer /CARE international in Jordan

CARE International seeks a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security. In Jordan, CARE will be recognized for its commitment to the humanitarian protection and empowerment of communities especially women and girls, where rights are secured, and human potential fulfilled for all.

CARE in Jordan leads humanitarian protection, economic empowerment, and civic engagement interventions for women and girls from poor and vulnerable communities in the fight to overcome poverty, gender based violence, and social injustice. We nurture accountability, leadership and political will internally and among our partners to achieve this mission.

CARE values equality, integrity, transformation, excellence, diversity, and respect for the dignity and worth of every human being, where we affirm the dignity, potential, and contribution of all; communities we work with, partners, donors, and staff.

CARE International established a presence in Jordan in 1948, created in the wake of the Palestinian refugee crisis. Over 70 years later, CARE has served the needs of the Palestinian, Iraqi, Somali, Sudanese, and now Syrian refugee communities.

CARE’s scope of work has evolved from emergency response to long-term development programming, now encompassing an Urban Refugee Protection Program, the Azraq Camp Program, and the Sustainable Development Program.

CARE International in Jordan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or disability.

CARE is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those that are suitable to work within our values are recruited to work for us

CARE International in Jordan has a vacancy for the post of Economic Empowerment Project Officer:

• JOB SUMMARY:

The role of project officer is to develop and drive the project forward in everything; starting from planning to implementation of project activities. The project officer should provide vital assistance to the project manager and is responsible for monitoring project schedule, budget, preparing project progress reports and liaising with key stakeholders. Project officers will be responsible of strengthening the organizational and financial management of cooperatives and MSMEs within project sectors. Project officers will also work to strengthen the capacity of existing women and youth cooperatives through and guided support in consultation with District staff.

• RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Job Responsibility #1 Planning, monitoring and reporting:

• Develops, the costed annual work plan for the project component for which he or she is responsible with support from the project manager;
• Reviews and revises this plan each month with the project manager;
• Monitors the implementation of the plan in line with donor and CARE requirements including proposing any necessary changes;
• Reports to the project manager on progress including contributing to donor reports.
• Ensures compliance with all donor requirements and regulations
• Keeping necessary data records, beneficiary information and documentation;
• Together with the Project Manager, properly documents the achievements and lessons of the project activities and disseminates to partners. This includes registering assistance on beneficiary databases if applicable.
• Works as a team players providing relevant information assistance to colleagues and ensuring project components for which she or he is responsible are interlinked.
• Maintains all relevant project documents in electronic and paper files (reports, contracts, agreements, correspondence, meeting notes, training materials and so on)

20% of Time

Responsibility #2: Monitoring and supervise partners’ staff:

• Supervise and monitor field team including setting work schedules and smooth coordination with partners CBOs and cooperatives
• Ensures (with input from CARE’s line manager) that work procedures and if relevant standard operating procedures (SOPs) are in place, understood and being carried out.
• Monitors the work on the team through regular field reporting ensures the team produce reports, key project documentation (case notes and reports, meeting notes, project visit reports, activities reports, photos and so on).
• Ensures project components are recorded by the team e.g. beneficiaries recorded on database if required.
• Provide CBOs staff with the required technical and logistics support as required;
• Manage/co-ordinate ongoing relationships with private sector organizations at local and national level.
• Explore new opportunities for engagement with private sector organizations at local and national level in line with CARE priorities and principles.
• Working with CARE staff, ensure that there is due diligence work undertaken to assess partners and potential partners.
• Support and assist with monitoring and evaluation of the project outcome related to the MSMEs.
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with key local companies within the private sector.

20% of Time

Job Responsibility #3: Project Implementation

• Participate in the program review, design and implementation plans to identify the beneficiaries and their needs.
• To organize and lead development and sustainability of women and youth Off-farm cooperative campaigns in the selected sectors.
• Facilitate the implementation of Cooperatives income generating projects
• Building Cooperatives capacity and skills for their members, elected representatives, managers, and employees so they can contribute effectively to the development of their cooperatives.
• Promote savings models within the district and develop savings and revolving fund module materials including training methodology for community facilitators
• Promote the use of micro-financing schemes within cooperatives by facilitating trainings relevant to topic
• Contribute and participate in the mid-term and term evaluation of the cooperatives( Effectively document all information related to project successes and best practices, videos, and most significant change stories on the project in the selected sectors, and document and report initial market assessment findings.
• Facilitate the women and youth cooperatives in the process of registration at Sector.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to producers and producer groups to build local capacity for understanding and connecting with markets; participate in regular.
• Provide support for organizing visits, meeting, events, trainings and workshops

10% of Time

Job Responsibility #4: Liaison &Coordination

• Liaises with other stakeholders and partners (UN agencies, government other NGOs, Private Sector and agencies) to ensure coordination, presents CARE’s work and ensure coherence of the project with other similar activities;
• Helps facilitate and participate in project visits e.g. by donors;
• Ensures communication and joint working with other CARE projects and teams (e.g. to refer beneficiaries or to ensure other colleagues are informed about project progress);
• Analyze feedback from beneficiaries (questions and inquiries) and report back regularly.

10% of Time

Responsibility #5: Emergency Response / Staff Security

• Take a lead role in facilitating timely, quality administrative support function delivery in the time of emergency response
• Guides and supports management on staff security concerns
• Ensure security operational guidelines well established for the CO and field offices following CARE USA Security Guidelines, and all staff are aware (in coordination with the CD)

5% of Time

Job Responsibility # 6 Ensuring community participation, promoting women’s empowerment, applying CARE standards:

• Makes sure that project activities are performed in line with CARE standards including key humanitarian standards as set out in the SPHERE and IASC guidelines.
• Ensures that gender considerations are taken into account at all stages of the project cycle from design through implementation to evaluation;
• Ensures the participation of the community and partners in all stages of the project cycle

15% of Time

Job Responsibility # 7 Coordination, liaison and outreach with project partners and other interested organization:

• Maintains contacts and effective communication with key partners involved in the project (project partners, other NGOs and agencies, Government departments) including drafting correspondence and documentation for signature by the project manager and transmission to partners or donors.
• Ensures that summaries of meetings, seminars or workshops attended is written, well documented and shared with others;
• Report on all meetings and develop ways to involve lessons learned or disseminate information to CBO partners.
• Participates and if necessary organizes coordination between different donors, agencies and organizations to enhance the impact of CARE’s work through good coordination.

15% of Time

Job Responsibility #8: Other duties as assigned by the Area of project manager.

5% of Time

• QUALIFICATIONS – (must be specific, realistic and related to job responsibilities)
• Specialized Know How

Bachelors

• Education and training

Required: Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Community Development, Social Sciences, Business Administration or combination of relevant Education and Experience

Desired: Master’s degree in relevant fields

MA degree in Sociology, Psychology, or equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Managerial Know How

Involves integrating and harmonizing requirements of diverse functions in operating, support, and administrative situations. It may be exercised through consultation as well as direct action; Management requires a combination of planning, organizing, controlling, and reviewing along with direct and indirect execution. Choose one of the following: Task; Minimal; related; diverse; broad.

This position requires (Minimal) managerial know-how.

• Experience

Required:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in cooperatives and MSMEs development. Minimum 3 years in project development and coordination related experience preferably from UN/INGOs sector
• Experience in cooperatives and private sector context
• Experience in income generating projects for host community members

Desired:

• Effective follow up and planning skills.
• Actual grassroots experience, working with communities and CSOs
• Good knowledge in administration, HR and procurement policies and procedures.

Technical skills

Required:

• Sound understanding of basic SMEs concepts and Private Sector Engagement.
• Understanding of gender issues.
• Project planning and budgeting and staff planning.
• Excellent communication (with colleagues and external partners).
• Strong report writing skills in English language.
• Strong Analytical skills and the ability to understand business development needs in the context of economic empowerment projects.
• Excellent organization and follow up skills.
• Ability to work according to plans and meet deadlines.
• Ability to multitask and undertake both administrative and the programmatic parts of the activities.
• Familiarity/training in participatory extension approach.
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, conceptual understanding of participatory approach and sustainable development.
• Computer proficiency

Desired:

• Experience in dealing with Cooperatives and partners’ CBOs

Human relations skills

Consists of active practicing skills in the area of human relationships. In the work context Human Relations Skills include all capabilities that are needed to interact on a direct person-to-person basis, and through varied approaches build understanding of, acceptance of, or commitment to, courses of action that are important for the organization. These skills may be applied in relation to peers, subordinates or peers within the organization, or to people outside the organization. (See Guidelines for definitions).

The Human Relations Skills for this position are designated as basic

• Competencies
• Respect – Behaving in a manner that reflects a true belief in and appreciation for the dignity and potential of all human beings. Gaining other people’s confidence and setting an environment of trust and openness.
• Integrity – Maintaining social, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adhering to codes of conduct and ethical principles inherent to CARE.
• Commitment to Service – this competency is woven throughout all aspects of the employee’s performance.
• Excellence – Setting high standards of performance for self and/or others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed; ensuring interactions and transactions are ethical and convey integrity.
• Diversity – Promoting, valuing, respecting and fully benefiting from each individual’s unique qualities, background, race, culture, age, gender, disability, values, lifestyle, perspectives or interests; creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes diversity.

Other desired Competencies:

• Adaptability: effectively managing changing environments in the organization, global, economic, and political matters, maintaining effectiveness when dealing with multiple and conflicting priorities across different cultural settings, or during emergency and crisis situations.
• Planning & Organizing: Establishing courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently and effectively in accordance with CARE’s core values.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Makes routine decisions in the course of work. Understands the issues, compares data from different sources to draw conclusions, and chooses a course of action that is consistent with authority delegated to the position.
• Political Acumen: Understanding the socio-cultural, historical, political, and economic context within which CARE operates; integrating understanding of the organization’s global approach with awareness of global trends.
• Communicating with Impact: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain their message.
• Building partnerships.
• Stress tolerance,
• Building commitment
• Interpersonal skills
• Operational decision-making
• Planning and organizing
• Information monitoring
• Respect
• Integrity
• Diversity
• Excellence
• building partnership,
• stress tolerance,
• problem solving,
• managing performance for success,
• communicating with impact,
• innovation,
• Planning and monitoring.
• PROBLEM SOLVING

Is comprised of the Thinking Challenge and Thinking Environment

Thinking Environment considers the rules, instructions, practices, precedents, standards, principles, policies, goals, and objectives that create the context in which a job is authorized to deal with unusual situations. It describes the degree of freedom permitted to the job to initiate the thinking process as a result of external conditions, as well as internal conditions of the organization. Choose one of the following: Strict Routine; Routine; Semi-Routine; Standardized; Clearly Defined; Broadly Defined; Generally Defined; Abstractly Defined. (See Guidelines for definitions).

• This position is defined as Clearly Defined

Thinking Challenge describes the situational and nature and degree of difficulty of mental effort required to come to conclusions, make decisions, provide answers, or discover new things. Choose one of the following: Repetitive; Patterned; Interpolative; Adaptive; or Uncharted. (See Guidelines for definitions)

• This position is defined as Patterned.
• ACCOUNTABILITY

Is the answerability for actions and for their consequences’. It is the measured effect of the job or position on end results. It has three dimensions in the following order of importance: Freedom to Act; Impact on End Results; and Magnitude**.**

A) Freedom to Act is the degree to which personal or procedural control and guidance for work (or lack thereof) exists. This is a function of the organizational framework, the personnel and policy direction, and the flows, processes, and systems that are established in the organization. Choose one of the following: Limited; Prescribed; Controlled; Standardized; Regulated; Clearly Directed; Generally Directed; Guided; or Strategically Guided. (See Guidelines for definitions).

• This position would be designated as Standardized

B) *Impact on End Results* considers the principal nature of the job’s influence on end results, which ranges from very direct control to very indirect support. Choose the Impact category that reflects the basic purpose of the job most clearly. Ancillary; Contributory; Shared; Primary (See Guidelines for definitions)

• This position would be Contributory

C) *Magnitude*: Financial: What parts of CARE’s revenue and/or expenses are impacted by the job’s primary goals? Use current fiscal year amounts. e.g. project budget, fundraising or contract goal, budget managed or monitored, donations processed, purchases made, contracts negotiated/signed, benefits costs.

1. CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

Key Internal Contacts

Program managers, Field Staff, Support team

Key External Contacts

CBO’s, private sector, Local Partner focal points/managers

1. WORKING CONDITIONS:

Describe the location of work, expected percentage of travel, special conditions (e.g. security situation, availability of medical facilities, basic education, etc.).

• Travel: The position will be based in the field office with frequent travel to Main office.
• Safety and Security