Project Officer of “Improved capacity and access to employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth in Hai Phong”

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type: Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Design and Planning

• Design appropriate youth Vocational development project strategies/ intervention for target population in the targeted area.
• Make inputs for intervention strategy through developing research, designing data collection tools, carrying out research in the field, analysing data, and presenting finding to relevant audiences; - Carry out planning sessions with government counterparts and community ensuring the sustainability of the project

2. Project Activities Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting

• Implement, monitor and evaluate project activities with project partners as per plan to ensure the project’s progress and note the effect of the project activities in the community;
• Facilitate community project ownership by conducting community participation activities to ensure that the resources of the project will create direct benefit to community members, specially towards to the poor;
• Keep track and project’s progress and update information in liaison and collaboration with project partners. Prepare and share monthly, quarterly and annual project reports on the progress of the project with the AP manager, North 2– Livelihood technical program officer and District PMB.
• Follow strictly WVI and Donor finance procedures and guidelines. Ensure appropriate expenditures/utilization, transparency and integrity of all expenses. - Respond to HEA/DRR needs in local context when needed

3. Relationship and Collaboration

• Provide support to project partners including Department of Labour Invalid and Social affair, Education and Training department; State and Private enterprises; Haiphong Universities and vocational colleges in An D??ng and Hai Phong city; in order that they are able to maximize their resources for project achievements and sustainability; as well as willing to discuss solutions for improving project quality in a transparent and timely manner toward mutual agreement.
• Through close collaboration with openness and timely information exchange, the “youth employment project” is implemented in integration with WVV funded projects in Haiphong, making greater impact on beneficiaries.
• Provide technical inputs timely and efficiently to relevant technical program officer/specialist/manager through a continued and constructive cooperation with TPs and relevant departments.

4. Survey, Research, Documentation and other

• Prepare and carry out surveys, survey reports including presentation of survey results to government counterparts and the community;
• Document youth data statistics frequently for reporting and designing appropriately activities and methodology - Collect information and develop Most Significant Change (MSC) Stories, Lessons Learnt of every step and share it with all stakeholders.
• Produce one project manual and documentary film for scaling up purpose. - Take responsibility for personal security, accurately identify and assess the dangers and respond in the most appropriate way; take all good faith efforts to keep other WVV staff and property secure with guidance and instruction as being trained by WVV
• Other tasks assigned by the manager to the team performance

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Bachelor degree in social science, economic, youth science or related fields.
• 3-5 years’ experience working in community development, social work or related field.
• 1-2 years’ experience working in the area of Youth intervention or primary vocational training- life skills training- economic development is preferred. 
• Relevant experience of working for a similar INGO-funded development project.
• Conceptual understanding of and commitment to development work in child focused, community empowered development concepts, approaches and processes in particular;
• Project management skill
• Documentation skills: story collection, meeting minute taking, photography. - Demonstrated training and group facilitation skills;
• Good interpersonal, communications and facilitation skills
• Community mobilisation skills, including networking/coordination among different local partners;
• Good English skills;
• Willingness to work at the project sites (district level) with frequent travel
• Satisfactory pre-employment medical report verified by medical doctors from licensed hospitals
• Vietnamese: Fluent

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