Program Officer

itle: Program Officer

Reviews to: Program Supervisor

Location: Syracuse, New York

Wage: $55,068 – $68,250 DOE

Journey: 10%

The Close to East Basis (NEF) is looking for candidates for Program Officer to be based mostly in its Headquarters workplace. For over 100 years, the Close to East Basis (NEF) has labored to construct extra sustainable, affluent, and inclusive communities within the Center East, Caucasus, and Africa via schooling, governance, and financial improvement initiatives. In Sudan and South Sudan, our mission is to enhance meals safety, enhance self-sufficiency, and improve well being and well-being via community-led initiatives in water, sanitation, hygiene, and agricultural manufacturing. By working intently with native communities, governments, and companion organizations, we attempt to create sustainable and impactful change.

Place Description

NEF is looking for a extremely organized and detail-oriented Program Officer to assist our nation groups in Sudan and South Sudan in challenge administration, contract administration, and donor reporting. The profitable candidate should possess wonderful communication and coordination skills. Reporting to the Program Supervisor, you’ll play a vital position in guaranteeing challenge effectiveness, compliance with donor necessities, and the achievement of program goals.

Duties

Mission Administration Assist:

• Collaborate with nation groups to draft complete challenge milestones with clear timelines to assist planning and comply with up.
• Convene common conferences with nation challenge managers to observe progress, determine challenges, and coordinate assist from HQ groups.
• Assist nation groups in common expenditure evaluations to make sure adherence to budgets.
• Work intently with the compliance workforce to assist nation groups’ adherence to organizational insurance policies, procedures, and rules, together with compliance with finance, procurement, and human assets tips.

Reporting and Communications:

• Coordinate with nation groups to assemble crucial knowledge and data for reporting functions.
• Assist the preparation and submission of high-quality donor studies, together with progress studies, monetary studies, and different documentation as per donor tips and deadlines.
• Contribute to the event of communication supplies, akin to success tales, case research, and studies, highlighting the impression of our applications and initiatives.
• Contribute to the preparation and evaluation of challenge proposals and grant functions.

Contract Administration:

• Help within the administration of challenge contracts, guaranteeing correct and up-to-date contract documentation.
• Assist the administration of contracts with consultants, suppliers, and implementing companions, guaranteeing compliance with organizational insurance policies and donor necessities.
• Preserve correct and up-to-date challenge documentation, together with contracts, studies, assembly minutes, and different related supplies.
• Evaluate and analyse contracts to make sure adherence to assist compliance with phrases.
• Work with inside to deal with any contract-related points or issues.

Different:

• Take part in visits to challenge websites to observe progress, present assist, and determine areas for enchancment.
• Present technical help and capability constructing assist to nation groups in challenge administration and reporting via mentoring, and information sharing actions.
• Help within the preparation and facilitation of conferences, workshops, and trainings with stakeholders, companions, and beneficiaries.

Important {Qualifications}

We encourage all people who consider they’ve the abilities essential to succeed inside this place and thrive at NEF to use for this position, even when you don’t meet 100% of the {qualifications}.

• A Bachelor’s Diploma in a related area (akin to worldwide improvement, challenge administration, or a associated self-discipline); Grasp’s Diploma is a bonus.
• 3 years of expertise in challenge administration, contract administration, and/or donor reporting, ideally within the worldwide improvement and humanitarian sector.
• Sound understanding of challenge administration rules and practices.
• Familiarity with contract administration and compliance.
• Wonderful written and verbal communication abilities in English. Information of Arabic is extremely fascinating.
• Robust analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Capacity to work successfully in a workforce and independently, with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Workplace Suite (Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Capacity and willingness to journey to program areas.
• Candidates have to be legally licensed to reside and work in the USA with out firm sponsorship, now or sooner or later.