Overview
The Project Officer will contribute to portfolio management, project administration, budget preparation and monitoring, and project processing activities related to loans and TA projects, and knowledge management.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to portfolio management activities by developing and maintaining database of key performance indicators and project administration issues and actions, preparing or clearing consolidated and analytical portfolio management reports, ensuring necessary actions are being taken by concerned staff, and providing stop gap support.
- Analyze sector portfolio performance, project administration workload, and provide guidance to team members.
- Coordinate with project administration teams across the sector office.
- Contribute to the analysis and review of mission reports and aide memoires, progress reports, and other available project performance indexes.
- Ensure quality, conduct special loan/TA review missions, and prepare country portfolio review missions and tripartite portfolio review meetings.
- Contribute to addressing project administration red flags for corrective actions.
- Monitor and review the accuracy and consistency of data to ensure the quality of individual Project Performance Report, monitors and analyzes team's projection and performance on contract awards/disbursement, project completion report/technical assistance completion report programs, and makes recommendations to achieve targets.
- Prepare portfolio analysis reports for effective communication both internally and externally.
- Review and ensure the quality of loan, grant, and/or TA processing and administration documents in the team/division.
- Coordinate and provide inputs and feedback to sector office initiatives in project administration.
- Ensure compliance with the checklist on use of no objection procedure for loan, grants, guarantees, multitranche financing facility, policy-based lending, results-based lending, or any other newly introduced instrument's quality.
- Contribute to project administration tasks for assigned loans and TAs, especially in procurement and other project administration actions, and provides guidance to EAs on ADB's procurement guidelines and policies.
- Participate in project inception, review, mid-term review, special loan administration missions, and project completion review missions.
- Provide guidance to project processing staff in the preparation of project reports, Report and Recommendation of the President, and linked documents.
- Support project processing missions in designing project implementation arrangements, including procurement/disbursement procedures and project management set up, and review of financing plans.
- Contribute to the preparation of annual portfolio management program.
- Contribute to the preparation of work program and budget resource requirements, and monitor budget utilization.
- Monitor progress and issues in budget utilization for efficient and effective resource use.
- Perform other responsibilities that may be assigned as reflected in your workplan.
Required Experience
• At least 8 years' relevant professional experience in project process or administration.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in economics, development studies, business administration, or other related fields, preferably with advanced training.
