About the Role

The Project Officer role is based at the Program Unit level and will be responsible for providing oversight to implementing partners (IPs) for effective delivery of projects and child sponsorship. The incumbent has a primary responsibility to ensure the partner organizations clearly understand and execute the partnership contracts and plans, while driving program excellence, risk mitigation and project management standards.

The incumbent will work towards ensuring a seamless integration and quality of both sponsorship delivery and project implementation against approved partnership arrangements and in line with the Country Strategy. The incumbent will actively engage in project cycle management including design and planning processes with all relevant stakeholders. They will provide oversight to implementation of projects while ensuring consistent reporting and adherence to policies and procedures.

While working with partners, the incumbent will ensure safe programming, effective mobilization of sponsored families, children, girls, youth and other community members to participate in programs and sponsorship communication activities as per the mutually developed detailed implementation plan and sponsorship monthly & annual schedules.

The role will manage partnerships (county government; government line ministries, national NGOs, corporate agencies among others) and sustain a working relationship with sponsored families, communities and local partners. The incumbent will ensure capacity strengthening of partners.