Project Associate (Community Resilience)

The Project Associate (Community Resilience) supports the implementation of the project aimed at strengthening climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction through mainstreaming within the education sector and enhancing community preparedness. The role involves administrative, operational, logistical, monitoring, and coordination support working closely with various government and community stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of project activities to facilitate timely delivery of project outputs by coordinating day-to-day activities, maintaining activity work plans and project schedules, and following up on agreed action points.
• Assist in organizing consultations, workshops, trainings, awareness sessions and meetings under the school-based disaster preparedness and community resilience components by coordinating logistics, preparing training materials, managing participant registration and documenting proceedings.
• Support stakeholder coordination and communication with DECEM, DOE, DCOs, schools, communities and other project partners to facilitate collaboration and effective implementation of project activities.
• Assist and provide logistical support in for curriculum review consultations, teacher training, development and dissemination of learning materials, and monitoring of pilot DRR/CCA education activities.
• Contribute to community consultations, shelter assessments, rehabilitation activities, EES trainings, handover activities and community engagement initiatives.
• Collect, compile and maintain programme data and documentation in order to support monitoring, reporting and donor compliance including maintaining participant and activity records, attendance sheets, assessment data and other project files.
• Conduct field monitoring visits and support reporting activities by gathering information from beneficiaries and stakeholders, documenting progress, and contributing to activity implementation.
• Provide administrative and operational support including initiating procurement requests, arranging travel and logistics, maintaining project filling system, processing payments and other project-related tasks as required.
• Support project visibility, outreach and communication activities by collecting human interest stories, photographs, lessons learned, beneficiary feedback, ensuring compliance with donor visibility requirements.
• Perform such other duties as may be assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, education, disaster risk reduction, climate change, environmental studies, community development, international development, public administration or a related field from an accredited academic institution with three years of relevant professional experience; or High School Diploma with five years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience supporting project implementation, community development or humanitarian programmes.
• Experience organizing workshops, trainings, consultations and community meetings.
• Experience working with government departments, communities and development partners.
• Experience in monitoring, reporting, data collection and database management.
• Experience in administrative and operational support functions.
• Previous experience with UN agencies, NGOs or international organizations is an advantage.
• Good knowledge of project implementation and stakeholder coordination.
• Strong organizational and administrative skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Ability to maintain accurate records and prepare reports.
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural environments and remote community settings.
• Knowledge of climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction or community resilience programming is desirable.
• Fluency in English (oral and written) is required.
• Working knowledge of local FSM languages, including Pohnpeian, Chuukese, Yapese or Kosraean, is an advantage.

Skills

• Project Implementation
• Community Development
• Humanitarian Programming
• Workshop Organization
• Training Facilitation
• Consultation Coordination
• Community Meetings
• Government Liaison
• Development Partner Engagement
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Data Collection
• Database Management
• Administrative Support
• Operational Support
• Stakeholder Coordination
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook
• Records Keeping
• Report Preparation
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Community Resilience Programming

Languages

English