Project Officer – DRC عودة إلى الفرص

Reporting to: Project Manager

Technical Line Managers: –

Location: Medenine

Authorization level: N/A

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by vulnerable people affected by conflict and instability all over the world. DRC in Tunisia gives a strong focus on community safety programming, striving to identify safety and security needs from the perspective of those living in conflict areas and to help them find non-violent solutions. These go beyond traditional mine action activities to include violence reduction, programming that specifically seeks to engage communities in addressing root causes of conflict and local safety and security challenges.  

DRC/DDG has been working in the region in Libya and Tunisia since 2011. DRC has been present in Tunisia since 2014 working on enhancing community security and resilience in the border towns of Dehiba and Ben Guerdane. In 2016, DRC built on this engagement to develop a cross-border programme between southern Tunisia and border towns in western Libya (Zuwara, Wazin and Nalut).  The aim is to continue working on community safety and resilience by implementing community dialogue, conflict prevention and management activities as well with the aim of building relations and cross-border initiatives.  

The Project Officer, in coordination and cooperation with project staff, and supervised by the Project Manager, is expected to:

1. Support strategic and program development of Safer Communities programming
2. Support project management in terms of programming and administrative functions incl. grants management
3. Contribute to development of communications materials and reporting
4. Contribute to knowledge management and an active culture of organizational learning

Responsibilities: 

Strategic and Program Development 

• Assist regular analysis of political and security developments and themes in southeast Tunisia
• Assist the development and implementation of DRC’s South Tunisia program strategy
• Contribute to internal discussions on thematic issues related to violence prevention, conflict management, community security, and border management
• Contribute in creating and developing inter-agency coordination mechanisms to promote border management programs and policy advice
• Contribute to implementation of DRC Country Office’s strategy through appropriate actions within the project and adequate connections to the main objectives of the office.

Project Management

• Ensure steady presence in the office in Medenine and needed reach out activities with relevant local authorities, representatives of CSOs and UN Agencies working on similar projects.
• Ensure regular attendance with CLOs in the organized activities run within the project
• Support effective use of project management tools and development of new tools and procedures as needed
• Assist administrative tasks related to financial, logistics, and human resources management
• Assist in grants management tasks such as ensuring that the ERP system is regularly updated.Communications and Reporting
  • Contribute to drafting of content for communications and advocacy materials, internal and donor reporting, and project-related publications
  • Support the development of regular newsletters and other knowledge products based on conflict analysis

  
  Knowledge Management and Learning

  • Monitor forthcoming research, media, and events related to community security, conflict management, and integrated border management in Tunisia
  • Support the development of tools aiming at enabling local partners to use precise and useful conflict analysis and conflict prevention mechanisms.
  • Develop analysis and identify trends based on the inputs discussed with local partners 
  • Support the capacities of relevant local staff in reporting and information management
  • Maintain an organized filing system to manage and preserve all project documentation in a safe and accessible way
  • Promote a culture of learning by actively identifying challenges supporting identification of lessons learned