Field Officer will be based in the political administration compound and will work with line departments and other government structures, as appropriate, at the Agency level. The Field Officer will be required to travel extensively to the field areas and sub office and main office if required.
Specific duties and responsibilities
The Field Officer’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Advise Agency Development Officer (ADO) on programmatic strategy, including where to focus program resources, how to develop operational relationships with the PA’s office, and how to address programmatic challenges as they arise.
- To assist ADO in planning, management, execution and monitoring of all project activities.
- To work in close coordination with technical section to ensure quality of work.
- Manage relationships with relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to Government departments at the Agency and local levels, community and tribal elders, and local organizations and communities.
- Monitor and report on the rapidly changing environment and actively contribute to the FSP overall strategy, design and implementation.
- Establish and oversee consultative processes between GOP structures and target communities to identify, recommend, design, and develop projects for funding.
- Identify potential communities with the consultation of political administration and address their demands accordingly to program policy.
- Ensure the successful implementation of project activities, including planning and the transparent procurement of grant-related goods and services. Successful implementation should include on-going consultative processes, and government and community involvement in all phases.
- In conjunction with other program staff, evaluate completed projects.
- Share with other program staff successful methodologies for consultative approaches to grant development and implementation.
- The FO will identify the area/region based on strategic objectives of the program to prioritize the FSP grants.
- To persistently coordinate with the implementing partners to track physical progress of the ongoing grants.
- To interact/ hold meetings with the POC and TOC members aiming at improving the quality and deliverables and subsequently gaining the confidence of stake holders.
- Participate in the bidding of grants and assist the logistics in relevant documentation.
- Writing of grant ideas, success stories and weekly grants updates.
- To assign duties to field staff and AFO,and their capacity building in report writings, grants updates and community mobilization.
- To supervise and manage all activities in absence of ADO/team leader.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent.
- 05 years experience with project design, development, management, and implementation of development-type projects. He should have experience in community participation and consultative-type projects. The Field Officer must have the capacity to understand and analyze national, regional, and local politics, and the creativity and analytical capacity to design and implement grants with the interface between government and communities.
- Local candidates of FR Bannu/Lakki region will be preferred.
Languages
Thorough knowledge of English; working knowledge of Pashtu, or other languages spoken in the region will be an advantage.