Project Officer - Future4Binti

The Project Officer supports the delivery of Plan International's Future4Binti activities in Banadir and Jubaland, providing technical support, oversight, and supervision to local partners. The role involves planning, coordinating, and delivering programme activities, engaging with government and community stakeholders, and ensuring quality and accountability in implementation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and directly implement assigned Plan-led Future4Binti activities in Banadir and Jubaland, ensuring alignment with the approved project proposal, workplan, budget, results framework and implementation standards.
• Develop and regularly review detailed activity and implementation plans for the assigned geographical areas in coordination with the Project Manager.
• Lead and support implementation of programme interventions addressing FGM/C, CEFM/U, gender equality, protection and girls' rights, ensuring locally appropriate and gender-transformative approaches.
• Coordinate implementation of activities undertaken jointly with government institutions, community structures, and other stakeholders within the assigned locations.
• Ensure Plan-led activities are implemented on time, within approved scope and budget, and that required activity documentation and supporting evidence are completed and maintained.
• Track implementation against the detailed implementation schedule and promptly flag delays, quality concerns or technical gaps to the Project Manager, proposing practical corrective actions.
• Use lessons from implementation, monitoring and stakeholder feedback to adapt activities and continuously improve programme quality.
• Serve as a key technical focal point for Future4Binti implementing partners in Banadir and Jubaland, maintaining regular communication, technical accompaniment and follow-up throughout implementation.
• Provide day-to-day technical supervision of partner-led F4B activities, ensuring implementation is consistent with approved proposals, workplans, budgets, grant agreements and programme quality standards.
• Support the Participatory Institutional Assessment (PIA) process and subsequent development and implementation of tailored institutional capacity-strengthening plans.
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring and technical support to CSOs, WROs and YLOs based on capacity gaps identified through the PIA and routine implementation monitoring.
• Support partners implementing Future4Binti micro-grants and other delegated activities, including reviewing workplans, activity designs, training plans, community-engagement approaches, implementation progress and technical reports.
• Conduct regular partner monitoring and support supervision visits, identify implementation or capacity gaps and agree and follow up on corrective actions.
• Facilitate partner reflection, review and learning sessions and support documentation of organizational capacity improvements, emerging results and promising practices.
• Escalate significant partner performance, compliance or implementation concerns to the Project Manager in a timely manner.
• Maintain effective technical engagement with relevant government institutions and local authorities in Banadir and Jubaland, supporting implementation of government-linked Future4Binti activities.
• Coordinate with CSOs, WROs, YLOs, community structures, religious and traditional leaders and other stakeholders relevant to programme implementation.
• Represent Future4Binti, as delegated by the Project Manager, in relevant technical working groups, coordination platforms and stakeholder meetings.
• Ensure agreed actions arising from government, partner and coordination meetings are documented, communicated and followed through.
• Support partners and programme stakeholders to document learning, promising practices, community perspectives, case studies and evidence that can inform programme adaptation, advocacy and influencing.
• Contribute technical inputs to programme reports, donor updates, learning products, presentations and communication materials, ensuring that reported results are supported by implementation evidence.
• Support meaningful and safe participation of girls and young women, boys and young men, families, community leaders and other stakeholders in programme activities.
• Provide field-level analysis and emerging evidence to the Project Manager to inform programme decision-making and Future4Binti's advocacy and influencing agenda.
• Work closely with the Project Manager, MERL and relevant technical colleagues to ensure both Plan-led and partner-led activities meet agreed technical and programme-quality standards.
• Conduct regular field visits across Banadir and Jubaland to monitor Plan-led activities, observe partner implementation, engage programme participants and stakeholders, verify reported progress and provide technical support.
• Track implementation progress against approved activities, indicators, milestones, budgets and expected results and identify areas requiring corrective action.
• Support routine, quarterly and joint monitoring missions involving Plan, government institutions and implementing partners, as appropriate.
• Review partner reports, monitoring data and implementation evidence in collaboration with MERL colleagues and follow up on data-quality, documentation and performance gaps.
• Maintain complete and timely documentation of programme activities, including activity reports, attendance records, monitoring findings, implementation evidence, lessons learned and agreed follow-up actions.
• Provide timely and high-quality technical inputs to monthly, quarterly, annual and donor reporting processes.
• Support programme reviews, learning, transition and closure processes, including documentation of results, sustainability actions, and lessons learned.
• Support the Project Manager and relevant support functions to monitor programme, partner, financial, operational and contextual risks affecting implementation in Banadir and Jubaland and ensure agreed mitigation measures are followed up.
• Monitor implementing partners' compliance with grant agreements, approved workplans and budgets, programme standards and Plan International requirements.
• Work closely with Grants, Finance, Procurement, and MERL colleagues to identify implementation and compliance gaps and ensure timely corrective actions.
• Support verification that partner expenditure and activity implementation correspond with approved activities and reported programme results, while maintaining appropriate separation from Finance's financial-control responsibilities.
• Ensure partners maintain appropriate programme documentation and evidence required under their grant agreements.
• Identify and promptly escalate significant implementation, compliance, safeguarding or accountability concerns to the Project Manager and relevant functions.
• Ensure Plan International policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to the role—including finance, procurement, security, IT, Code of Conduct and accountability requirements—are consistently applied throughout programme implementation.
• Ensure Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion policies; implementation standards and guidelines are fully embedded in all Plan-led and partner-led Future4Binti activities within the assigned areas.
• Ensure implementing partners understand and apply safeguarding, PSEA/SEAH, gender equality, inclusion and Code of Conduct requirements throughout programme implementation.
• Promote safe, meaningful and inclusive participation of girls, young women and other programme participants, including persons with disabilities and other groups facing barriers to participation.
• Identify safeguarding and protection risks within programme implementation and ensure appropriate prevention and mitigation measures are integrated into activities.
• Ensure safeguarding concerns are promptly reported through Plan International's established reporting mechanisms and handled in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Work with Safeguarding and technical colleagues to strengthen partner capacity and address identified safeguarding, gender and inclusion gaps.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Social Science, Development Studies, Gender and Inclusion or any other relevant discipline.
• At least 3 years’ post-graduation experience supporting donor-funded development or humanitarian programmes, preferably with an International Non-Governmental Organization.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in protection, gender equality, GBV, FGM/C, CEFM, harmful practices or partner-led programming, preferably in Somalia and/or humanitarian contexts.
• Experience providing technical support, capacity strengthening and accompaniment to local CSOs/WROs/YLOs is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Donor-Funded Programme Support
• Humanitarian Experience
• Protection Programming
• Gender Equality Programming
• GBV Programming
• FGM/C programming
• CEFM programming
• Harmful practices programming
• Partner-led programming
• Technical support to CSOs
• Capacity Strengthening
• Local Partner Supervision
• Programme Planning
• Programme Coordination
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Quality Assurance
• Accountability in Programming

Languages

English