Echo - Programme Officer

Duties & Responsibilities:

The jobholder carries out activities to ensure that effective humanitarian response is delivered. The jobholder conducts assessments; develops strategies and represents DG ECHO at technical level when appropriate. The programme officer may be asked to run an antenna/office and supervise staff in the absence of a TA (Technical Assistant) or, when in a RO (Regional Office), be in charge of regional overview tasks:

• Contributes to designing DG ECHO overall strategy, policies and thematic working groups.
• Appraises and evaluates partners’ financing requests and monitors projects in the light of the intervention strategy adopted and advises, as appropriate.
• Prepares fiche-ops (e-documents completed by DG ECHO staff for assessing and monitoring projects), as appropriate and submits to the responsible HoO/TA.
• Reviews policy compliance in cooperation with policy experts in the RO/HQ (Headquarters).
• Liaises with partners to finalise and review proposals, once the appraisal is agreed with DG ECHO headquarters.
• Evaluates interim and final reports submitted by partners and advises DG ECHO as appropriate.
• Pro-actively follows local or regional events that may impact the humanitarian situation in the country/region. Drafts reports on the humanitarian situation, including any political, economic and security events relevant to the analysis of the humanitarian situation in the country/region.
• Supports the HoO/TA in the event of an emergency response.
• Provides backstopping capacity and surge support in case of need.
• Advises on the operational capacity of implementing partners.
• Ensures the monitoring of DG ECHO visibility and pro-active communication with partners in operational contracts in line with the guidelines.
• Design/appraisal of integrated, people-centred programming and required system wide enablers relevant to the Somalia Humanitarian response.
• Experience on Public Health allowing for independent appraisal of epidemiological surveillance, monitoring and evaluation and digitalized tracking and reporting systems of relevant actions.
• Operational coordination of health/nutrition partners guided by ECHO Somalia strategic objectives
• Undertakes any additional tasks as assigned by the TA/Head of Office/RO and/or Headquarters.

Required Qualifications:

Education: A relevant second level university degree or equivalent professional experience.

Knowledge and experience:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience at national or international level in managing programme/project operations, including at least 2 years of experience with an NGO, a donor or a national/international organisation.
• Very good knowledge of the EU humanitarian aid system.
• Very good knowledge of International NGOs, UN Aid Agencies and Red Cross Movement.
• Very good understanding of Humanitarian Aid principles, policies and standards.
• Excellent drafting skills.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.).