Job Title: Project Officer
Location: Tunis
Salary: 1180 TND
Duration: Two-year contract
Working hours: full time
Directorate or Region: MENA
Department/Country: Projects /Tunisia
Pay Band: H
Reports to: Projects Manager
Purpose of job:
To effectively deliver products and services and build networks to enable Tunisia to achieve definedregiona l and local project outcomes.
Context and environment:
Post holder will work in the Education team, within the Tunisia Programmes Team, reporting to a local Project Manager and working closely with the regional Large Scale Programme (LSP) managers and teams, the local Projects Team.
The Project team work in a number of areas including education, civil society and the arts.
However this post will principally work on the Global project Connecting Classrooms.
Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:
(including people management and finance)
- People management : NA
- Finances Managed : None
- Finance related duties: Processing of purchase orders, chasing vendors, receiving invoices and liaising with the finance team for processing the payments.
Main Duties:
Products and Services:
- To provide support for the effective and efficient delivery and evaluation of Connecting Classrooms in Tunisia to the satisfaction of Project Manager
- To assist in monitoring, evaluating the quality of events and their outcomes; and disseminating lessons learned to enable teams to repeat successes, act on lessons learnt and improve the quality of events and their outcomes.
- Provide support on evaluation (including scorecard storyboard) carried out to agreed standards and methodology as required by Project Manager(s)
- Provide support to Project Manager for the preparation and the organisation of events. Where necessary:
- Book meeting rooms and ensure catering and all logistic arrangements are made.
- Raise POs and deal with payments according to British Council financial requirements.
Marketing and promotion
- To support the project manager with marketing and communications by providing 2 of 4 Resourcing team November 2010 updates/information for the Marketing and Communications Team to secure appropriate media coverage, in line with British Council scorecard and marketing and communications policies.
Networks and Relationship building
- To support Project Manager(s) to develop and maintain active relationships and networks successfully to the satisfaction of network (s ) members and stakeholders
- To maintain the contacts database
Resources management
- Administrative support on to Project Manager(s) to manage project risks and finance
- Fully engaged in PMPD to corporate standards
- Effective use of SAP to satisfaction of Project Manager(s)
Key relationships:
- External stakeholders include
- Officials in government ministries especially Education, Higher Education, Vocational Education and Employment
- Media
- Hotels, travel agencies
- Internal stakeholders include
- British Council local, regional and UK programmes and projects teams
- British Council cross-departmental teams (Marketing and Communications, Resources, Teaching and Exams)
Other important features or requirements of the job
- Occasional unsocial hours, flexible working, occasional weekend working.