Program Officer

Overview

The Program Officer will help support the Program Manager in managing the administrative, financial, logistical, and programmatic tasks required for the Breast Cancer project. This includes assisting with program administration including scheduling meetings and preparing or editing program reports, and PowerPoint presentations.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support in the design, implementation, and monitoring of project activities.
• Assist with preparing and monitoring project budgets.
• As necessary, collaborate with other project team members to ensure necessary project planning, resource availability and management activities function smoothly and efficiently
• Arrange logistics in coordination with the Program team leaders and ensure that logistics including training materials and supplies reach all sites promptly.
• Responsible for recording and disseminating program meeting minutes and following up on meeting deliverables.
• Ensure that required technical and administrative reports are submitted in a timely way.
• Support with organizing meetings, field visits, and other activities.
• Maintain the management calendar and keeping it up-to-date.
• Assist with gathering technical updates for program planning, training, components of evaluations, and other studies on related programs.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual work plans and reports.
• Assist with other programmatic and administrative duties as required.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• A first degree in social sciences or a health-related field is required, and additional post-graduate certifications are an added advantage.
• Self-management is necessary (i.e. motivation, dealing with pressure, adaptability).
• Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence.
• Ability to manage competing priorities/assignments and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives sometimes under pressure of deadlines.
• Be cooperative, competent, hardworking, flexible, and dependable.
• Ability to coordinate information and logistics for programs and activities.
• Good team player
• A broad variety of programmatic, administrative, financial, and computer skills (including Word Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access), which may need to be acquired through very quick learning.
• Experience in team working and multicultural staff.
• Excellent organizational skills
  
  

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