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Project Assistant – EU Funded Homes not Houses Project

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Mulliyavalai, Sri Lanka
Full-time

The Project Assistant will be responsible for mobilizing the Beneficiaries and the Community of assigned Village(s)in order to implement Interventions of the Lively hood part of WVL’s (Flanking Measures) of the EU funded housing project. S/He is responsible for the organizing meeting, enumerate for surveys, Visit Beneficiary families, Monitor progress, and mobilize and train them for effective outputs, Coordinate Village level Government officials and participate progress meetings and update progress and critical matters to WV management. Also to support for any interventions that WV and HFS jointly undertaking for the betterment of the project. In addition He/She will be responsible for the following:

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Be the overall representative of the project for the assigned village/s mobilize beneficiaries and monitor the lively hood interventions, progress of house construction and any other common project interventions and report progress and inform timely the critical issues to the management for action
  • Get trained on important technical areas of the project and disseminate to the beneficiaries as ToT and facilitate to Family/Community led interventions (Land use plan, Small and Medium Entrepreneurs, Value Chain and Market survey, Savings Groups, Business Facilitation, Value Chain, Graduation and any other possible models and Cross cutting themes)
  • Support as Enumerators for any surveys, including beneficiary selection process, base line survey, Monitoring surveys and evaluation
  • Organize village meetings and project events as requested by project team with Project Officers and Government officials
  • Participate at Lesson Learnt events and support the project team in planning and decision making in order to improve quality of the project
  • Provide timely and complete reports as required by Project Management
Educational Background: 
Advance Level Examination qualified
Skills/Experience: 
  • Minimum 03 years’ experience in implementing development programmes preferably in a NGO context
  • Field experience in implementation of housing projects, Livelihood activities, Gender, DRR and other crosscutting themes of the project
  • Experience in arranging community meetings, training and other events
  • Good report writing & communication skills in English with working knowledge of Tamil Competent t in the use of MS Office Applications, internet & email communications
  • Ability to travel extensively within project areas of operation
  • Good understanding of current socio, economic & political context of the areas of operation
  • Knowledge and experience of holistic community development
  • A team player with good interpersonal skills with cross-cultural sensitivity, & commitment to World Vision Core Values and Mission Statement

Organization Info

World Vision

Overview
Headquarters: 
Federal Way, WA, United States
Annual Budget : 
More than $500M
Founded: 
1982
About Us
Mission: 

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so. World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Inspired by our Christian values, we are dedicated to working with the world's most vulnerable people. We serve all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

Our mission: World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jan 21 2019
Active Until: 
Feb 21 2019
Hiring Organization: 
World Vision
industry: 
Nonprofit