Job Title:
Senior Project Officer
Job Location:
Gaziantep
Reporting to:
Protection Program Manager
The application deadline is the 28 Oct 2024.
General Description of the Programme:
SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, to alleviate suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.
SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals’ emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.
Job purpose:
Reporting to Protection Program Manager, Sr Project Officer is responsible to manage all project activities including SRH services, GBV prevention and response activities, delivering RH commodities, maternity and dignity kits, CVA for GBV and menstrual hygiene management, supervise project staff for the daily planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring, and establish coordination between project staff and Sened operational departments, communication with project partner and submit narrative reports.
Duties, objectives, and competencies:
· Recruit, supervise, performance manage, motivate and appraise the team members to deliver the project objectives of ensuring proper implementation of projects within the required cost, time and quality and highest impact to beneficiaries.
· Supervise static and mobile teams to plan and implement SRH services, GBV prevention and response activities, delivering RH commodities, maternity and dignity kits, CVA for GBV and menstrual hygiene management activities in Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş.
· Prepare the project implementation plan, follow up the implementation with the field team and update the plan weekly.
· Supervise the implementation of projects and activities on a daily manner. This includes directing activities, avoiding mistakes, and receiving and submitting projects reports.
· Prepare, develop and review the reports to be submitted to partners/donors. These could include daily, weekly, quarterly, progress and final reports.
· Conduct meetings with project team members to distribute daily, weekly and monthly tasks, follow-up projects workplan/indicator and report the progression to Protection Program Manager
· Be fully responsible for meeting project targets and compliance requirements through activities, means of undertaking activities, and in all other documentations.
· Participate as required in project kick-off, close-out and review meetings. Ensure documentation and follow up of action points in a timely manner.
· Follow-up with other departments in relation to projects activities.
· Provide all necessary support to the project team and help resolve all issues and conflicts that may arise as a result of the day-to-day operations.
· Establish and maintain good relations with key stakeholders in the implementation area.
· Attending coordination meetings in inter-agency level and represent Sened in these meetings
· Supporting the service mapping and keeping service map updated
· Supervise staff to record registrations and attendances in the database in a timely manner and update information as necessary and ensure that progress is updated in the database, in coordination with Sened and partner’s MEAL departments.
· Ensure, with the finance department, that activities and expenses are regularly monitored and, as needed, action plans with follow-up are developed to correct any over- or underspending in a timely manner.
· Distribute tasks among the team for preparation of purchase/service requests according to needs and budget of project, and follow-up ongoing works, in coordination with Supply Chain Department.
· Participate in the offers opening, and procurement committee to evaluate the competing bids and help choose the winning bid.
· Support and promote the standards outlined in the Code of Conduct and associated policies to project team.
· Any other job-related tasks as assigned by supervisor/line manager.
Requirements: Essential
· Bachelor’s degree.
· Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in NGOs/INGOs.
· Advanced in Turkish
· Intermediate in English
· Advanced computer skill, especially on MS Office programs
Requirements (desired)
· Bachelor’s degree in social/political science or related field.
· Minimum of 1 years of proven experience in NGOs/INGOs as supervisor.
· Advanced in English
· Advanced in Arabic
Technical Competencies:
· Advanced knowledge in project management
· Advanced knowledge in report writing.
· Advanced knowledge in Excel & Word
· Advanced knowledge in staff supervision
· Basic knowledge in budget management.
General terms and conditions
Safeguarding
Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.
Diversity
SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.
Procedures
If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.
This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.
SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. tendersglobal.net SENED Kuruluşu işe alım sürecinin hiçbir adımında ücret talep etmemektedir.
SENED retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer a contract with a modified job description or for a different duration, or offer a contract at a lower grade.
How to apply
Interested candidates may please send their resumes with the cover letter and fill out the application link.,