Junior Program Officer East &West Africa
Making
All Voices Count (MAVC)
Making All Voices Count supports innovation, scaling-up, and research to deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness.
Number of hours: Full time (40 hours a week)
Region: East Africa
Office: Regional Office, Nairobi Kenya
Responsibilities
The Junior Program Officer supports the MAVC Program Officer for East and West Africa in implementing the MAVC program. Special focus is on administrative tasks for overall grant system of MAVC.
Role
- Support the PO
with project management i.e. identifying, assessing, selecting and
contracting potential grantees
- Contract
Management including preparing contracts, planning & evaluation of
reports
- Internal and
external communication e.g. preparing presentations and meetings
- Contributes to
writing annual work plans and annual reports.
- To contribute to
the Hivos overall organizational and policy development.
Profile
& competences
- Masters in
International Development and / or international communication (preferred)
- 3- 5 years work
experience in relevant sector (required)
- Knowledge of ICT
for development, democratization processes, civil society and transparency
and accountability.
- Demonstrable
skills in project management
- Proficiency in
written and spoken English (required)
- Academic and
analytical thinking (required)
- Proactive
attitude and often come up with new ideas
- Willing to work,
responsible and independent and can perform under pressure.
Deadline: Apply before June
30th, 2013 to jobs@hivos.or.ke with reference code “JPO, MAVC”
