Senior Project Officer

Save the Children’s vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children started our work in Vietnam in 1990, and implements programs in the key thematic areas: Education, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Child Rights and Governance, Child Poverty, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Emergency Response. At present, Vietnam Country Office has programs in 20 out of 63 provinces in Vietnam.

Save the Children in Vietnam continues to develop innovative programming that reflects the overall strategic goal of measurably improving the survival, health, protection and development of Vietnam’s poorest children by strengthening the capacity of women and children, caring adults, communities and partner organizations.

Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children.

Child Safeguarding positioning statement:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

We are looking for consultancy services for:

Vacancy: Senior Project Officer
Based in Laocai Office

Main Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for support Sponsorship Manager and Sub-Impact Area Coordinator to oversee all sponsorship funded project implementation (including phase-in and phase-out) and operations in the impact area in Lao Cai Province, ensuring effective implementation and partnership, donor communications, compliance with the Country Office as well as Sponsorship policies and procedures..

Key Competencies:

Essential

1. Province Based Office Oversight and Management:

• Support in providing overall management of the office and coordinate the administration supports within the office, including office lease, procurement, logistic support, filing system, IT systems, telephone system, vehicle and office fixed assets management, etc.;
• Support in coordinating the administration procedures and working programmes for visitors including external visitors, sponsors, partners or technical advisors;
• Support in managing approved operation budget for the province, including approval of expenditures for the office to ensure spending plan and compliance to SCI and Child Sponsorship policies and procedures.

2. Program Implementation:

• Responsible for two sub-grants at provincial level: DOET and DOH;
• Support in implementing the child-centered projects effectively, including achieving the projects’ objectives within set timeframe, on budget, allocation of resources and ensuring that appropriate controls are maintained at all levels;

3. Human Resource Management:

• Support in managing the performance of related staff to make sure that they can effectively use of the performance management system including the establishment of clear, measureable objectives, on-going feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations;
• Coaching and mentoring direct report staff;

Please send CV and a completed application form, contact of three referees and a covering letter in English addressing the list of competencies to: 4th Floor, Mercury Building, No. 444 Hoang Hoa Tham street, Tay Ho District Hanoi or by Email: [email protected]

The SC’s application form and full job description are available here.

The closing date for application is 5 pm on 9th January 2018. Applications will be treated in confidence. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted and CVs cannot be returned.

Save the Children is an equal opportunities employer. Our selection processes reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse, and our people are as diverse as the challenge we face. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, HIV/AIDS status, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.