Project Officer x2

Location:  Mongu (with frequent visits to project locations in Senanga or Sikongo district)

Contract duration: (2 months with possibility of extension)

Start Date: (as soos as possible – Applications will be prossesed on rolling basis. So application can close anyday depending on the volume of applications recieved)

Line Manager:  Project Manager

Application deadline: (Application will be processed on rolling basis and May close at anytime depending on the volume of applications)

Basic Salary: Competitive – it will be communicated to candidates at the first stage of recruitment

Introduction:

People in Need (PIN) is a non-governmental, non-profit, international organization founded in the Czech Republic in 1992. PIN started its operations in Zambia in the Western Province in 2017. Since then, it has been working within nutrition, health, WASH, and livelihoods sectors to improve the lives of vulnerable groups and promote good governance by engaging Civil Society Organizations in local and national advocacy initiatives. With the growing incidence of natural disasters and anticipated surge in refugee arrivals, PIN Zambia provided humanitarian aid and early recovery support to refugees in North-Western Province and the most vulnerable farmers in Western Province. During the worldwide pandemic, PIN Zambia helped to prevent and mitigate the impact of Covid-19 by improving water, sanitation and hygiene practices in rural and urban communities and health facilities.

Project Summary:

The project titled ‘Emergency Nutrition Response’ is 8 months project funded by UNICEF. The project is being implemented in Sikongo, Senanga and Sioma districts by PIN Zambia.  The main objective of the project is to reduce mortality and morbidity rates in children under the age of 5 years due to malnutrition caused by the prolonged dry spells experienced in the stated districts. This will be achieved through building the capacity of district health system on prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (‎acute malnutrition)‎ in infants and children under 5 years as well as providing necessary supplies for the treatment of malnutrition in health facilites.

Scope of Works:

The Project Officer will be responsible for providing effective support and assistance to the Emergency Nutrition program   team to ensure smooth programme implementation in line with PIN and donor’s rules and regulations. Under the supervision of the Project Manager, he/she will provide the assistance and support to project administration, procurement, record keeping, Supports PM in maintaining contact with stakeholders.

Monitoring

• Support PM with project reports development

• Ensures tracking of monitoring data from project target communities

• Participates at project monthly review meetings

• Collects all relevant data and indicators in the field and cooperates closely with PM and MEAL Unit

Finance Support

• and organize work independently

People in Need is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct and committed to promoting the welfare of children and adults with whom People in Need engages /is in contact with. People in Need expects all staff to perform job duties and responsibilities in accordance with People in Need Code of Conduct and key policies (available at: www.peopleinneed.net/key-policies-4142gp ). People in Need Staff will undertake the appropriate level of training.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. (we will need your police clearance certificates at some stage-which you must already have)

Are you interested in joining us? Please apply in the link below. Send us your CV which includes the contacts on your referees. Ideally, we need the name and email of your two previous line managers and one of HR.

Please note that PIN never ask for exchange of material, services or money for employment.

PIN Benefits

• 24 annual leave per year

• Contributions of Health Insurance (Nhima) as by Law.

• Accident insurance for all injuries during work time.

• National pension scheme contributions as by law

• Extensive Capacity Building program, both internal and external trainings – Induction training.
  internal online opportunities, such as access to e-learning platform and webinars

• Month contribution for phone tariffs

• Annual Staff retreat

• International environments with oppotunities to learn from other country programs

• Paternity leave of 5 days and maternity leave of 14 weeks

• Breastfeeding breaks for nursing colleagues

• Per diem for working and sleeping outside of duty town depending on the location.

• Friendly and fair environment in small collective structure where everyone knows each other.

• We have lunch break with meals available at the office (Mongu Office)

• 2 health breaks per day.

• Salaries are according to People in Need Salary scale and shortlisted candidates to be informed about the salaries.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. 

Apply here