Description
Position: Project Coordinator
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Reports to: Country Representative
Exemption
Status:
Exempt
Job
Description – Project Coordinator
Opportunities
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Company
Description:
OIC International
(OICI) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to building
self-reliance and entrepreneurship through sustainable technical and vocational
skills development. We believe in empowering individuals, institutions and
communities through the transfer of knowledge and skills. Our programs are
community-based and market driven to ensure that they meet community needs and
are fiscally responsible to enable our beneficiaries to become productive
members of their communities through the provision of life, job and business
skills. We believe that development is a communal effort and that only through
effective cooperation will the needs of the developing world be met. In this
spirit, we have a proud history of welcoming international, national, regional
and local partners in all our work.
Position
Summary:
The Program
Coordinator will work in close collaboration with the Director of Programs in
the administration and implementation of the OICI RAMPS program funded by a
grant from TOPS in conjunction with USAID’s Office of Food for Peace. S/he will
be expected to establish required working rapport with the OICI field offices
and the implementing partners in order to promote OICI’s locally produced food
product, Super Gari.
S/he will be required to perform some of the project monitoring functions
independently and with very little supervision from Director of Programs.
Essential
Duties and Responsibilities:
Other duties may be
assigned based upon the needs of the department and organizational needs.
This position will
be responsible for the day-to-day as well as periodic monitoring of field level
project implementation activities. S/he will bring to the attention of the DS
the issues needing his immediate attention with background information and some
preliminary analysis.
Specific program
services will include:
- Organize
four workshops promoting OICI locally produced food product, Super Gari - Assist
with and monitor the Super
Gari media campaign - Supervise
Project Assistant and Marketing Specialist - Draft
and/or prepare program reports, work plans, budgets and correspondence as
needed - Assist
in the collection, formatting and dissemination of field-level best
practices to encourage their use by all ongoing activities of similar
nature - Liaise
with OICI HANDS Program staff - Collaborate
with OICI HQ Director of Programs and Program Manager to support program
planning, implementation and monitoring - Provide
monitoring evaluation duties by working with staff and partners to
document outcomes, successes and areas for improvement - Coordinate
and/or represent OICI in professional circles through meetings,
conferences and presentations
Qualification
Required:
- Bachelor’s
Degree in international development related field - Excellent
presentation skills - Food
processing, management and INGO experience preferred - Ability
to write routine reports, correspondence, responses to internal and
external inquiries in area of responsibility and procedural guidelines - Working
knowledge of Microsoft applications and spreadsheets - Strong
attention to detail, well organized and ability to problem solve
Physical
Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to
talk, hear, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or
controls. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The
employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds.
How
to apply
To apply, please
submit cover letter, CV, references as well as salary and benefit requirements to
vkilcrest@oici.org. No phone calls
please. Only finalists will be contacted. Women and minorities are encouraged
to apply. EOE.
