Project Officer

1. Program overview

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have jointly launched a two-year program to advance responsible business conduct in Vietnam. This program will strengthen business capability and cultivate future business leaders to promote responsible business conduct and respect human rights. The program is supported by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Objectives of the Program

Overall aim

The aim of this program is to advance responsible business conduct in Vietnam through increasing the human rights knowledge and capabilities of businesses and future business leaders in Vietnam.

Short term objectives:

• Objective 1: Increased awareness and understanding of the relationship between business and human rights and relevant frameworks such amongst business and university students and teachers in business schools;
• Objective 2: Increased capability among businesses to integrate human rights and sustainable development principles and frameworks into their policies, strategy and day-to-day operations;
• Objective 3: Effective development and implementation of tools and resources for the business community;
• Objective 4: Increase engagement and collaboration within and across business and institutions on responsible business conduct issues and challenges.

2. Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the delivery of quality project outputs through quality preparartion of annual and quartely work plans, including budgets;
• Provide communication support on the project to the public, and logistical support to project activities and pernonnel when required;
• Ensure that the inputs are relevant to the activities, and the activities are relevant to the results and ensure that value for money is observed throughout the project implementation, including compliance to guidelines for allowable expenses at agreed rates;
• Plan the activities of the project and monitor progress against the approved work plans and budgets;
• Mobilize personnel, goods and services, training and other sources to initiate activities, inlcuding drafting TORs, work specifications and overseeing all contractors’ work;
• Monitor events set forth in the project monitoring schedule plan, and update the plan as required;
• Manage and monitor the project risk initially identified and progressively provide management updates and submit new risks if any to PMU for considerartion and decision on possible actions if required. He/she will update the status of these risks by maintaining the project risks log at the project office;
• Capture lessons learnt during project implementation;
• Prepare the annual work plan for the following year, as well as quartely plans as required;
• Timely financial, narrative and annual reports submitted to SD4B/VCCI;
• Timely facilitation of decision making process of the project;
• Make project related lessons, best practices and success stories documented as implementation continues;

Interested candidates should submit applications to [email protected].

Deadline for submission: 17:30 April 30, 2020.

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