Programme Officer

Title: Programme Officer - Eye Health

Salary: Local terms and conditions apply

Location: Monrovia, Liberia (with travel to Project countries)

Contract: 24 month Fixed Term Contract

Hours: 35 hour per week

About the role

We are looking for a Programme Officer to enhance the quality of Sightsavers supported programme in Liberia and ensure that they are planned, implemented, monitored and evaluated to the highest standards, in line with Sighsavers policies and procedures. The Programme Officer will work with country office staff, global teams, and partners to identify areas of growth and develop new initiatives.

Key duties will include:

• Identify partner organizations with whom Sightsavers can work to achieve the organization's strategic priorities of the prevention of avoidable blindness and the social inclusion of people with visual impairment, through both service delivery and advocacy work.
• Develop and support longer term relationships with these partners that go beyond the duration of individual projects.
• Support partners in the identification of their own capacity building needs and help facilitate the provision of these needs.
• Assist project partners in the preparation of budgets.
• Monitor expenditure of project financial resources and liaise with the Finance and Support Services Manager/Officer where necessary.
• Support partners to manage all aspects of the project cycle including planning, implementation and monitoring & evaluation.
• Support the Country Programme Manager and Country Director to prepare project reports in line with Sightsavers and donors requirements.
• Be proactive in providing good quality information on case studies, interesting news stories etc relating to the projects the officer is responsible for.
• Ensure that the Media and Comms teams at Sightsavers regional office head office receive appropriate materials and information as required especially if projects are supported by restricted funding that may have special reporting requirements.

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the for full details. 

As the successful candidate you will possess working experience, or a degree in a relevant field (Public Health, Social Sciences, Development Studies, etc), and have extensive experience working for an INGO/NGO.

Further requirements include:

• Experience of all aspects of project management in community development programmes (planning, implementation, project life cycle, and monitoring and evaluation).
• Ability to travel to in country project sites (quarterly) and occasional international travel.
• Project management skills.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written).
• Good written and spoken English skills.
• Good IT skills.
• Ability to understand and work with project budgets, forecasts and reports.

Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.

To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please create your account and submit your CV via our recruitment portal. During the application process you will also be required to answer various questions regarding your working background. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.

We anticipate that interviews will take place during the week commencing 22 April 2024, and the evaluation process will include a written task and an oral interview, at our office based in Monrovia.

Closing date: 4 June 2024

Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.