Project Coordinator at Center for Advocacy, Transparency, and Accountability Initiative (CATAI)

General Description of Role

• The Project Coordinator will be supporting from Yola office, overseeing Technical consultants and Project officers so as to ensure that all projects are delivered within an efficient operational framework and identify and recommend specific courses of action that facilitate projects to deliver on their intended goals and outcome. 
• This position is a project based full-time. 
• The Project Coordinator will also assist in attending strategic meetings and documenting expected outcomes and is expected to support the project team to implement access to education program activities in Adamawa state.

Key Responsibilities
The position will have the following responsibilities:

• Ensure timely and effective implementation of the project’s objectives and oversight of project-related activities under the CATAI-led component of the joint project.
• Deliver results in accordance with the project’s document, project implementation plan and work plans of other partners, communication plan, and result log-frame.
• Ensures timely preparation of project work plans, procurement, and communications plans as well as other related documents for the timely commencement of the project activities. Develops a detailed implementation plan, and oversees its progress for the CATAI-led component.
• Plan, coordinate and supervise the work of all project staff including preparation of the required terms of reference for consultants, national experts, and subcontractors recruited under the project, forward planning of Project activities and budget expenditures, activity scheduling, and reporting.
• Prepares comprehensive, outcome and output-oriented, evidence-based inputs to progress reports under CATAI-led activities of joint funder-based projects based on the requirements of the funder and other related organizations, as well as ad-hoc technical reports, when required.
• Perform other tasks as requested by the CATAI management.
• Work in close coordination with joint project partners, other CATAI projects, and national, ensuring optimum participation of all relevant stakeholders in planned project activities;
• Develop a professional platform for networking and partnership building with local authorities of the target regions, CSOs, youth centers and organizations, and other international development organizations or programs working in the area of education.
• Ensure visibility of CATAI and joint projects through public relations, advocacy, working with the mass media, and other communications activities.
• Knowledge-building and knowledge-sharing.
• Promotes project knowledge products, identification, and synthesis of best practices and lessons learned for organizational sharing, learning, and planning future strategies;
• Provides support to effective advocacy of project activities.
• Promotes a knowledge-sharing and learning culture in the educational program and community outreach.

Required Educational Qualification, Experiences, Technical Skills, and Language Competence

• Master's or Bachelor’s Degree in Education or Social Sciences
• 2 – 3 Years of similar experiences
• Ability to work independently and work with a team;
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good organizing skills and interpersonal skills
• Strong facilitation skills, and familiarity with training-of-trainer (ToT) approaches and methodologies.
• Demonstrate competency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Very good presentation and writing skills.
• Very good interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Fluency in the English Language both written and spoken is required, Fulfulde and Hausa language is an added advantage

Values:

• Exemplifying integrity
• Demonstrating commitment to CATAI
• Embracing cultural diversity
• Embracing change