Job Description

The Project Officer will support project implementation, coordination, documentation, and reporting, including:

• Support day-to-day programme activities to ensure timely achievement of project objectives.
• Coordinate innovation activities such as bootcamps, accelerators, youth initiatives, pitch events, trainings, mentorship sessions, and stakeholder meetings.
• Mobilise youth for digital skills and entrepreneurship initiatives and provide follow-up support, including mentorship and grant or equipment tracking.
• Assist in developing training materials, programme documentation, attendance records, distribution records, and reimbursement forms.
• Coordinate with innovation hubs, technical specialists, alumni, civil society organisations, training institutions, district youth offices, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor participant progress, collect and clean M&E data, support reporting visualisations, and document success stories and innovations.
• Support donor proposal development by preparing concepts, compliant budgets, and documentation with programme, technical, and finance teams.
• Draft project reports, updates, and other project documents, and perform any other duties assigned by management.

Minimum Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Project Management, Marketing, Development Studies, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 2 to 5 years of experience in project coordination or project support.
• Experience in community mobilisation, social and behaviour change activities, stakeholder coordination, monitoring, data collection, and reporting.
• Strong facilitation, communication, interpersonal, organisational, and documentation skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

• Support day-to-day programme activities to ensure timely achievement of project objectives.
• Coordinate innovation activities such as bootcamps, accelerators, youth initiatives, pitch events, trainings, mentorship sessions, and stakeholder meetings.
• Mobilise youth for digital skills and entrepreneurship initiatives and provide follow-up support, including mentorship and grant or equipment tracking.
• Assist in developing training materials, programme documentation, attendance records, distribution records, and reimbursement forms.
• Coordinate with innovation hubs, technical specialists, alumni, civil society organisations, training institutions, district youth offices, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor participant progress, collect and clean M&E data, support reporting visualisations, and document success stories and innovations.
• Support donor proposal development by preparing concepts, compliant budgets, and documentation with programme, technical, and finance teams.
• Draft project reports, updates, and other project documents, and perform any other duties assigned by management.

• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Strong documentation skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Project Management, Marketing, Development Studies, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 2 to 5 years of experience in project coordination or project support.
• Experience in community mobilisation, social and behaviour change activities, stakeholder coordination, monitoring, data collection, and reporting.