Sightsavers

Our vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes and where visually impaired people participate equally in society. Each year, we improve the lives of millions of people in the poorest parts of the world. Sightsavers is growing rapidly and offers a great place to work.

Programme Officer (2 year Fixed Term Contract) Cameroon

Salary: Competitive, Local terms and conditions will apply

Sightsavers has an exciting vacancy for a Programme Office to join our team based in Cameroon. You will join our team and be instrumental in the planning, implementation and development of the annual Country plan and ensure alignment of the NTD’s MDA project with the Sightsavers NTD’s fast track initiatives.

The position reports to the Programme Manager and will manage all aspects of the project cycle. You will have strong monitoring and evaluations skills as this is essential to the ongoing success of the programme. This role requires an organized individual who will work with partners to ensure the project deliverables are met. You will be responsible to maintaining and developing strong relationships with our partners that continue beyond the projects.

The successful candidate will monitor the project progress and provide reports when required. This role requires someone to have strong project experience with the ability to analyze data and produce reports on the data to the wider team. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 3 years’ work experience, ideally in an INGO environment: experience in all aspects of Project Management in community level development programmes; and experience in health programming. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in programme and project management; monitoring and evaluation; report writing, and working with a number of partners. Experience and understanding of government systems particularly the health sector will be advantageous.  A master degree in relevant field (Public Health, Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Development Studies or equivalent) would be advantageous.

You will have strong interpersonal, communication, capacity building or facilitation skills; ability to work under minimum supervision; ability to work with project budget and-depth knowledge of computer packages and Global ICT communication systems. Bilingualism (French and English) will be an advantage.

We’re an equal opportunities employer, and we particularly encourage qualified people living with a disability to apply.

Closing date: March 8, 2017

To apply, and for further details about the role, please download an application pack from https:/jobs.sightsavers.org/job/programme-officer-2-year-fixed-term-contract/ 

We will be contacting shortlisted candidates for interview, shortly after the closing dates. We very much regret that in view of the large number of applications we receive, we are unable to respond if you are unsuccessful. I am sure that you will understand the need to concentrate resources towards our work. 

Please attach APPLICATION and EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES form only. NO CV’s accepted