Overview
Provides coordination support to ensure effective project implementation and operations for the "Sierra Leone: Empowering youth through digital technologies’ project".
Key Responsibilities
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of assigned project activities.
- Monitors and analyzes project development and implementation.
- Reviews relevant documents and reports.
- Identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions.
- Liaises with relevant parties.
- Identifies and tracks follow-up actions.
- Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with the client, by planning facilitating workshops, through other interactive sessions and assisting in developing the action plan the client will use to manage the change.
- Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
- Undertakes survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
- Prepares various written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
- Provides substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.
- Undertakes outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
- Participates in or lead field missions, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries, etc.
- Coordinates activities related to budget and funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, etc.).
- Performs other duties as required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, administration or related area.
- Experience in tech and digital skills development desirable.
- Experience in youth entrepreneurship and SMEs' development is desirable.
- Experience in issues related to youth entrepreneurship and empowerment desirable.
- Experience working with development institutions and/or NGOs desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, management, economics or a related field.
- A first-level degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in the specified fields of studies with two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
