Introduction:

Human Appeal is an incorporated UK charity and a global humanitarian and development organisation. We save lives, alleviate poverty, transform and empower local communities whilst championing humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence and establishment of self-sustaining development programmes. Our vision is ‘’ to become the global agent of change for a just, caring, and sustainable world’’.

Position Summary:

The Project Coordinator’s main role is to support the Program Manager in field implementation in the respective district. The Project Coordinator in supervision of Project Manager will conduct field assessments, work planning, scheduling, and overall administration of the project to be in consistent with planned water and sanitation programme, HA policies and procedures & donor requirements.

Job Duties:

• Provide support and technical oversight to the implementation of operational elements of programme activities by working closely with the government and Human Appeal Country Office.
• Ensuring effective planning for projects including timely communal needs assessments and development of community engagement plans.
• Provide strategic and innovative solutions for building more efficient, coordinated, and reliable  programmes that lead to Better prepared communities and more responsive DRM systems in case of future disasters.
• Assist in the identification of and liaison with key stakeholders who can contribute to broadening and deepening the outcomes of the project.
• Ensure effective project closure and lesson learned workshop is organized with participation of all stakeholders.
• Ensure quality NFI schemes are implemented in the project closure phase with focus on community resilience building
• Undertake field visits for assessing quality field implementation of program activities and take corrective measures where necessary.
• Lead project teams for identification and selection of interventions for communal and schemes and capacity building activities.
• Address and solve problems that might arise between the community and Project teams, or among community members, during and because of the implementation of the project activities.
• Document success stories, case studies and other reporting documents as required by the Programmes Manager.

Qualification and Experience

• University degree in Disaster Risk management, social sciences, or management sciences or related field.
• Mandatory knowledge and understanding of conditional cash transfers programming;
• At least 1-2 year experience working on DRR and resilience building projects preferably with UN agencies.
• Experience in the provision of administrative and logistical support and organization of workshops
• Experience in research, analysis, and report writing;
• Experience in working with government officials and non-governmental organizations;
• Demonstrated experience in working in complex working environments;
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages (MS Word, Excel, Access etc.) and experience in handling web-based applications

Skills and Abilities

• Good understanding of community participation and the integration of DRR in recovery projects.
• Knowledge of PSEA, Protection & GBV, Gender & Inclusiveness in recovery context.  
• Knowledge of low cost structural mitigation activities.
• Ability to communicate in local languages
• Diplomacy, tact and administrative skills in order to work with people at managerial and occasionally, senior government levels