Organization: INGO

Work Location: Karachi 

ROLE SUMMARY:

The Project Coordinator report directly to the Project Officer and is responsible for the implementation of project activities and providing support and guidance to the community team in using organization tools in the project location. You will also be responsible for monitoring the project for quality of delivery and effectiveness.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Ensures participation of partners, children/young people and stakeholders in the process of project planning and implementation of the proposed activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify specific industries and job sectors to focus on.
• Conduct screening of employees to show which organizations are willing to work with girls.
• Support teachers and educational supervisors/parent educators in developing their activity plans and schedules, encourages their initiatives while ensuring alignment with project proposal, facilitates their activities and report to the Manager.
• Organize and conduct special events, activities, workshops, trainings, play days, awareness sessions, summer camps, recreational days and sports tournaments in coordination with organization’s partners.
• In coordination with partners, teachers, educational supervisors, principles, , evaluate events, provides updates of lessons learned and best practices and reports on progress and challenges as they arise.
• Manages and coordinates the logistical arrangements for training, workshops and events.
• Assesses training needs of coaches, teachers and partners, recommends suitable interventions, and works with them to develop training schedules.
• Organizes, conducts, and facilitates training workshops conducted by other program staff and participates in the training as required.
• Conducts training and, where applicable, facilitates the training sessions conducted by teacher trainers, evaluates them and reports to the Project Officer.
• Handles equipment management and distribution in the assigned community.
• Handles advance payments and manages cash money used for the activity implementation.
• Supports the assessment of needs for facility repairs and upgrades in the community, facilitates the authorized work and ensures that overall work has been completed in accordance with the approved standards.
• Work with beneficiaries for business development pitches, and access to finance.
• Conduct regular field visits with partners, and government officials to follow up and provide support as needed.
• Conduct regular visits to project implementation sites/schools and provides coaching and mentoring to teachers, principals, educational supervisors, youth/Junior leaders and community leaders.
• Participates in workshops/trainings of partners, coaches and teachers in the quantitative data collection tools and qualitative monitoring tools and facilitate the data collection.
• Provides narrative, qualitative and quantitative monitoring information/data to support monthly, quarterly and annual reports to update Country Office on project progress. Provides activity report for each activity conducted to support quarterly reports.
• Prepares and submits financial reports related to activity implementation and initiate the payment process of transports /other related and services provided by the suppliers related to workshop/trainings, meetings events and tournaments.
• Ensures all documents related to the project are well kept and makes sure internal documents for organization are not shared outside without authorization.

EDUCATION/TRAINING/CERTIFICATION:

• Bachelor’sdegreeinsocialsciences,education,oranyrelateddiscipline

EXPERIENCE:

• 2 years’ experience working in INGO/ NGO in project implementation and coordinationin, part of which should have been in leading a team.
• Experience in girls’ empowerment.
• Experience of training and leading workshops
• Thorough knowledge on digital literacy skills, courses, platforms
• Effective planning and organizing skills
• Coaching and feedback skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Strong development and team building skills
• Computer literacy in outlook, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Internet
• Effective report writing
• Understanding of a community-led process
• Understanding of the concept of play-based learning
• Understanding of child rights and child protection

LANGUAGES:

• Fluency in spoken and written English and Urdu (any other local language, including Sindhi is a bonus but not required)