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Project Officer – Accountability and Learning
• Salary (full time):$25,839 Salary (full time)
• Type of contract: Fixed Term
• Contracted hours:40
• Contract length:1 Year
• Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
• Closing date:19 April 2019
• Interview date:29 April 2019
Accountability and Learning Project Officer – Harare, Zimbabwe
About us
Christian Aid is a humanitarian and development organization that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We work globally for profound change that eradicates the causes of poverty, striving to achieve equality, dignity and freedom for all, regardless of faith or nationality. We are part of a wider movement for social justice. We provide urgent, practical and effective assistance where need is great, tackling the effects of poverty as well as its root causes.
About the Role
This role ensures quality accountability practice across the Cyclone Idai emergency programme in Zimbabwe and Malawi, supporting alignment to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS). The role provides accompaniment and support to partners to establish community-based functioning feedback and complaints handling mechanisms, ensuring that the feedback loop is closed and the learning generated is disseminated and reflected upon throughout the partner and country programmes. The role provides in-country training and support on accountability to country programmes and partners. The post holder will focus on learning and ensuring that good practice on accountability in the Cyclone Idai response is captured and shared widely across the organisation and as appropriate.
About you
Do you have passion, knowledge, and experience to support Christian Aid in responding to Cyclone Idai in Malawi and Zimbabwe? Do you have expertise on the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), and can support our partner organisations to ensure quality programming, keeping communities at the centre of our work? Will you provide our staff and partners with the capacity and skills they need to listen and respond to community feedback and adapt our programming?
Further information
This role requires applicants to have the right to work in Zimbabwe where this position is based. The role also supports our work in Malawi where frequent travel will be required. This is an urgent recruitment therefore candidate should be able to start immediately.
Contract terms: Initial contract is fixed term for 12 months. Renewal subject to performance and availability of funding.
We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.
You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.
Competency questions
As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:
Question 1: Build partnerships
Tell us about a time when you actively consulted with others to ensure that you understood their needs or goals before taking action
• What was the situation? What different expectations were involved?
• What was expected of you?
• What did you do? How did you take those actions?
• What was the impact? Were you successful? How did you know?
Question 2: Communicate effectively
Give us an example of a time when you communicated something complex in a way that could be easily understood by others
• What was the situation?
• What did you need to communicate effectively?
• How did you make sure the message was understood by others?
• What was the impact? How did you know you were successful?
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Question 3: Realise potential
Please give us an example of when you shared your knowledge and skills to help other be more effective in their role
• What was the situation? What knowledge or skills did you have to share?
• What was your particular task or responsibility?
• What action(s) did you take to help someone(s)?
• What were the results? Were you successful? How did you know?
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