Project Officer (Humanitarian)

TITLE: Project Officer (Humanitarian)

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Humanitarian

Program Implementation

LOCATION: Rakhine State

Number of Positions: 1

GRADE: NAT-4

CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed (Fixed Term)

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Project Officer (Humanitarian) is responsible for coordinating and implementing for Humanitarian Response in Rakhine related with Strategic Health Purchasing, Emergency Health support, Emergency Cash Assistance, Protection, WASH and other humanitarian response activities in Rakhine State. Under the supervision of the Area Operations Manager and technical guidance from program focal points, the position serves as the field focal point for the Strategic Health Purchasing Project and supports project planning, implementation, monitoring, partner coordination, evidence generation, and stakeholder engagement. The role ensures timely, quality, and accountable delivery of humanitarian interventions, strengthens community access to essential health services, facilitates emergency referrals, and contributes to effective emergency response programming and long-term sustainability initiatives.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Direct report to: Area Operations Manager (AOM)– Rakhine Area

Staff directly reporting to this post: Community Facilitators

Role Dimensions: Regular contact of basic information

Travel : At least bi monthly field monitoring visit and ensuring report.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Program Implementation

• Lead the day-to-day implementation of humanitarian response project in line with approved project plans, work plans, budgets, donor requirements, and organizational policies.

• Monitor humanitarian situations and identify emerging needs in project areas and contribute to the design of appropriate response interventions.

• Serve as the field focal person for Strategic Health Purchasing project implementation.

• Coordinate with local partner organizations, health service providers, and community representatives to support project implementation.

• Verification of clinic documentations (clinic register, patient booklet) against the pre-set criteria

• Assist in developing provider contracts, payment mechanisms, and monitoring frameworks.

• Support project assessments, beneficiary targeting, and community engagement activities, including data collection, data entry, beneficiary selection and community mobilization, ensuring transparency, participation, and inclusion of the most vulnerable households.

• Ensure the safe programming and distribution of MPCA and Cash for Food to the vulnerable beneficiaries, post distribution monitoring (PDM), and operational coordination, including the preparation of workplans, distribution plans, budgets, logistics arrangements, and quality monitoring of humanitarian assistance such as cash distributions and other community-based response activities.

• Organize field responses, outreach activities, distributions, monitoring visits, and community engagement activities.

• Support the case workers to implement case management, as per the Standard Operating Procedures and in alignment with the guiding principles and minimum standards of case management.

• Supports the case worker’s technical competence and practice, promotes wellbeing and enables effective and supportive monitoring of CP case management office; Individual Supervision on a weekly basis for 1 hour for each case worker, Facilitate Case Management team meetings weekly, Conduct case file review weekly.

• Oversee the implementation of WASH activities, water supply, latrine setup, sanitation, hygiene promotion, and temporary bathing facilities in IDP camps and relocation sites.

• Coordinate emergency referrals and follow-up support for vulnerable individuals and households.

• Ensure emergency activities comply with humanitarian principles and organizational standards.

• Ensure integration and coordination among health, nutrition, FSL, child protection, and emergency response activities where applicable.

Partner Coordination and Capacity Strengthening

• Maintain close collaboration with implementing partners, local authorities, community leaders, and other humanitarian actors.

• Provide technical and operational support to partner organizations during project implementation.

• Support partner monitoring, mentoring, and capacity-building activities.

• Facilitate regular coordination meetings and follow up on action points.

• Ensure effective communication and information sharing among stakeholders.

MEAL, Reporting and Documentation

• Support routine monitoring of project activities, outputs, and outcomes.

• Conduct field monitoring visits and verify program data quality.

• Prepare Bi-weekly, monthly, and donor reports as required.

• Ensure timely submission of activity reports, monitoring reports and project updates.

• Maintain comprehensive project files and documentation.

• Contribute to donor reports, proposals, assessments, and situation updates.

• Support data analysis and presentation of project achievements and challenges.

Other program delivery tasks

• Participate in the design of new project proposals including field assessments, budget’s development, work plan and logical frameworks.

• Facilitate supply requests, distribution plans, consumption including Blanket Supplementary Feeding

• Program reporting from the nutrition/health program to the logistics department when required.

• Participate in nutritional and health assessment planning, implementation, analysis, interpretation.

Team Management and Development

• Ensure the effective use of Develop to perform including the establishment of clear, measurable objectives, ongoing feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations.

• Support project staffs through coaching and other developmental activities. Ensure all team members have the opportunity to build greater capacities in line with their expectations.

• Will have to manage diverse team members and contexts ( camp and villages)

Child Safeguarding Responsibilities:

Ensure that your staff is providing all beneficiaries of your programmed with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

• Always acts in the best interests of children

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree, and preferably university degree in health, public health or equivalent experience.

• Experience in emergency response, health, nutrition, child protection, FSL, or multi-sector programming.

• Proven capacity to supervise, train, and coach staff

• Demonstrable ability at report writing and excellent communication skills

• Computer literacy

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• At least 3 years experience in implementing development or humanitarian programs

• Strong ability to work in a participatory way with different functional departments.

• Experience and knowledge of effective financial and budgetary controls for the grant.

• Experience working with local partners, emergency context, community-based organizations, and government stakeholders.

• Strong project management, coordination, and reporting skills.

• Experience conducting monitoring visits, assessments, and data collection.

• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.

• Good English and Myanmar language skills, both written and verbal.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to field locations.

• Good knowledge of project management cycle.

• Good people management skills/experience and proven ability to create an environment which encourages team-working and motivates a team across various geographical areas.

• Ability to work well in a team and train other staffs and demonstrate experience efficiently managing a team.

• Demonstrated skills, experience, and knowledge of community development; working with children and on children’s issues.

• Very good people management skills/experience and proven ability to create an environment which encourages team-working and motivates a team across various geographical areas.

• Ability and willingness to travel remote area as assigned.

Desirable

• Experience with multi-sectorial programming, or experience managing programs in several different sectors.

• Experience working with community groups in humanitarian, post-conflict and recovery development context.

• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.

• Willingness and capability to comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies, including the Child Safeguarding Policy.

• Prior experience with Save The Children

• Experience working with children and on children’s issues.

• Preferable implementation experience in Rakhine context

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All staff has an obligation and a responsibility to:

• Ensure they fully understand the provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and Local/Country Procedures.

• Conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse.

• Ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not putting children at risk (or further risk) – this means constantly scrutinizing their work through a child safeguarding lens and talking to children about possible design/implementation “flaws”.

• Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.

• Be vigilant about observing possible child abuse/harm in their personal and professional lives.

All managers have the above responsibilities as well as ensuring

• Their staff are doing the above.

• That child safeguarding is integrated and given a “voice” in all management processes including recruitment, induction, performance management, team meetings, annual planning processes, field level monitoring, etc.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.