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
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jan 21 2019
Active Until:
Feb 21 2019
Hiring Organization:
World Vision
industry:
Nonprofit