Somalia: ARC-PROJECT COORDINATOR

Key areas of responsibility

Planning and implementation of project activities:

• Liaise among the programme manager, partners, local administrations and other stakeholders in South west State to implement the programme
• Take the lead in conducting Community security assessments (CSAs), including data-gathering, analysis, and disseminating and discussing findings with local-level stakeholders, and use the CSAs to inform community action plans, dialogues, debates, advocacy, and awareness-raising activities.
• Ensure Community Action Forums (CAFs) are formed at the local level and work collaboratively with them on local security issues.
• In coordination with the local implementing partner, facilitate meetings and dialogues within and between communities and state authorities, overseen by CAFs, to collaboratively identify local security issues and plan responses.
• In coordination with the local implementing partner, ensure that Police Advisory Committees (PACs) are formed, and that they hold regular discussion with CAFS, regularly monitor police conduct and refer vulnerable detainees for legal aid support.
• Facilitate the implementation of programme activities as per the annual work plan in a timely, systematic and efficient manner.
• Support the programme manager on monitoring of project outputs and results.

Coordination:

• Develop networks of partnerships at the local level to ensure ownership and sustainability of project actions
• Facilitate coordination among local level stakeholders to ensure smooth and timely implementation of activities
• Coordinate between national level and local level stakeholders to ensure implementation of activities in a timely and efficient manner.
• Represent and speak on behalf of the RSCS programme to the South west State administration and other stakeholders at various levels, including policy and decision-makers and other INGOs and NGOs.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning:

• Undertake rigorous monitoring against the annual work plan at the field locations to ensure that programme activities are on track
• Undertake regular monitoring against the monitoring and evaluation plan to ensure that the project is achieving the desired results
• Maintain thorough progress monitoring reports, and provide quarterly financial and narrative progress reports for the programme in a timely manner
• Ensure that learning from local CAF activities and regional PAC monitoring is fed into policy through advocacy briefings.
• Support the development of regular reports, including donor reports.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Recruitment information: To apply, please fill in an application form (a copy of which can be found at www.saferworld.org.uk/about/jobs and send it to recruitment@saferworld.org.uk Please state, ARCPC in the cover line.

Deadline for applications: 18^th May 2017 We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted