Project Officer – Danish Refugee Council (DRC) عودة إلى الفرص

Application due: 03-05-2020

Workplace: Medenine City with Travel around Medenine & Tataouine Disctrict, Tunisia

Department/Country: Tunisia

Contract type: National contract

Overall purpose of the role:

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. Danish Demining Group (DDG) is a specialized unit within DRC that focuses on community safety programming. DDG strives 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. DDG 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, DDG 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:

• Support strategic and program development of Safer Communities programming
• Support project management in terms of programming and administrative functions incl. grants management
• Contribute to development of communications materials and reporting
• 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 DDG’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

Project Management

• 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