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Zambia Open Community Schools Job Opportunity: Field Office Officer

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  • Company: Zambia Open Community Schools
  • Location: Mongu, Western Province, Zambia
  • State: Mongu
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • Job category: NGO Jobs in Zambia

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Zambia Open Community Schools (ZOCS) exists to enable the OVC in Zambia, especially the girl child and children with special educational needs, to access quality education. ZOCS hopes to achieve this through Advocacy, Capacity Building and support to community schools through Service Delivery, mainstreaming the cross cutting issues of gender, HIV and AIDS and disability, as well as learning-based monitoring and evaluation of its interventions. ZOCS seeks to recruit a qualified candidate who is motivated and result oriented to fill the following position:

FIELD OFFICE OFFICER (1) – MONGU

REPORTS TO – PROGRAM MANAGER

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

This position will be in charge of Programmatic Functions of the operations of the Field Office. The Field Officer shall oversee the Project’s Operations in selected Districts of Western Province.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Providing oversight and leadership in the planning, implementation and monitoring of project activities of the Field Office.
  • Coordinate the implementation of activities for ZOCS, Partner CSOs and Communities in the selected Districts.
  • Coordinate and provide technical support to Community Action Groups (CAGs) in the target Districts.
  • Work closely with CAGs to support enrolment campaigns in communities.
  • Facilitate the mobilization of communities for the timely construction of schools and teachers’ houses using the “low cost community model” construction method.
  • Work closely with Ministry of General Education (MoGE) and other line ministries as well as like-minded CSOs to create synergies for getting Out of School Children into Schools.
  • Represent the project at relevant Districts stakeholders’ meetings, workshops etc.
  • Produce activity reports and tracking of program deliverables against the work plan.
  • Travel frequently to field sites to support and oversee Districts as well as school and community level operations and activities.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by Management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Education, Development Studies, Social Work, and Economics) or any other Social Science related field.

Skills/Experience

  • At least two years of related experience working in the Education Sector.
  • Team Player with very good interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Very good analytical and report writing skills.
  • Ability to work with a variety of people.
  • Ability to speak the main local language in the target Districts is desirable
  • Able to work effectively with minimum supervision
  • NGO experience desirable
  • Donor liaison experiences an advantage.

 

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send their application with detailed updated Curriculum Vitae to the email below not later than Thursday, 22nd February, 2018. Note that at this stage you are not required to attach copies of credentials.

[email protected]

Or

The Executive Director Zambia Open Community Schools P.O Box 50429 No. 20 Tito RoadRhodespark Lusaka