Grants Field Officer(Bilingual)

Options seeks a Grant Field Officer (GFO) to provide technical leadership to implementation, monitoring and coordination TGG-ALM programme.

• Contract type: Full time
• Salary: Commensurate with experience
• Location: Dakar, Senegal with 50% regular travel to the field (Tambacounda, Kedougou, Kolda and Sedhiou Regions).
• Deadline: 19 January 2025
• Contact: [email protected]

About the Programme

Options seeks a Grant Field Officer (GFO) to provide technical leadership to the grantee’s implementation, monitoring and coordination of capacity building for projects’ suitability and effectiveness towards achieving the TGG-ALM programme grant objectives in close liaison with MEL team and Community Implementation Lead.

Position

• Ensures that all grantees’ activities are designed in alignment with the TGG-ALM community implementation model.
• Conduct periodic monitoring site visits to grantees programme locations.
• Support regular analysis of data generation by grantees partners, supporting a culture of ongoing learning and programme adaptation.
• Work closely with Grants Lead on setting organizational capacity-building priorities and directions and responding to consortium partner requests for technical support.
• Support anchor partners to routinely carry out grantees’ organizational capacity assessments, setting institutional development milestones and support towards their realization.
• Be responsible for M&E for capacity building – to design and implement a plan to track data/results related to organizational capacity building to inform adjustments in project implementation.

Requirements

• Significant experience in managing programmes and grants, with a proven track record in offering technical support to grassroots organisations in remote and diverse contexts, across a multi-region programme (minimum 5 years ).
• Experience in designing and coordinating delivery of grassroots capacity building plans.
• Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation
• Strategic thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven experience on working on programmes relating to FGM/C, GBV or similar.
• Fluency in English and French (spoken, written, reading)
• Ability to travel locally(50%) and internationally (15%) as required.

Benefits

• Options offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous annual leave allowance, private medical insurance and 13 month pay.

Application Process

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis.

Other Information

Options is dedicated to equal opportunity for all and recognises that every individual is unique. Whilst we always seek to embrace individual differences and celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we also want to ensure that every team member is suited to their role and that they are given the best opportunity to succeed.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.

We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.

Applicants must have the right to work in the Senegal.