Qualifications and Experience:

For the post of Program Coordinator, a Master degree from a recognized university and 6 years of experience in “Social and Legal equality” or “Peace, Democracy and democratization” related fields are considered necessary. Some experience of working and coordinating with other international NGOs and funding agencies is also essential for this position. 

Key Responsibilities:

Planning, Implementation and Reporting

• Responsible for planning, implementation and reporting of project(s).
• Management, development and recruitment of staff.
• Responsible for expansion and growth of program.
• Make sure that good monitoring system is in place to monitor program
• Ensure Quality and Accountability mainstreaming.
• Responsible for financial management of the projects.

Strengthening Systems and Procedures

• Mentor & support team members specially SPOs in strengthening planning, management and implementation of projects
• Program implementation is conceptually in line with what is committed in project documents
• Contribute in training design and content
• Provide practical guidance to undertake/document best practice and lessons learnt and see that appropriate actions are taken against lesson learnt.
• Provide support on institutionalization of best practices, tools and approaches
• Mentor teams on how to link output to outcome level of work.
• Mentor teams in critically evaluating effectiveness of project activities and approaches
• Review team’s work plans and targets
• Review quality of documents and implementation like quality of activity plans, follow up reports, activity reports etc.
• Review coordination and communication mechanisms with stakeholders
• Support in program design and fundraising
• Ensure teams are applying agreed processes and tools in projects
• Mentor SPOs in utilizing their team member’s skills & competencies in most effective manner
• Mentor SPOs in team management skills
• Support SPOs in ensuring balance of workload in team & performance review
• Take initiative to strengthen accountability in team

Expansion, networking and visibility

• Strengthening networking and linkages with respect to programs
• Represent Organization nationally and internationally for P&D related activities including meetings, workshops and conferences.
• Proposal development.
• Finalize narrative and financial reports of the project.
• Visibility of the project(s).
• Publications for P&D project(s).
• Promote the desired organizational culture

Team Management

• Responsible to build capacity of team in technical areas related to EIP
• Recruitment and orientation of staff as and when required
• Maintain positive relationship with team
• Ensure organization’s expectation from program team members are clear to them
• Provide timely feedback to team members as and when required

The duties listed above covers most of the task that would be performed by the individual in this position; however, the Program Coordinator can also be assigned any other official task by Management as and when required.

Technical Competencies:

• Competent project management and coordination skills
• Proficiency in English speaking and writing skills
• Be able to work independently, ability to take initiatives, decision making
• Ability to represent the organization at various levels in-country and at regional-international levels