Project Officer

Short term position: October 2010- January 2011
Starting date:  As soon as possible   

Oxfam-Québec is a Canadian international development agency working in Viet Nam for the past 15 years. Its’ mandate is to support capacity-building in the areas of rural development, anti-human trafficking, and business development services for MSME within the emerging non-governmental sector as well as mass organizations. It is committed to the development of civil society and the equality of women and also provides Canadian technical support through consultants and volunteers.
Oxfam-Québec is the implementing agency responsible for six-year project entitled “Rural Enterprise Expansion Project” (REEP), funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). REEP is implemented in the provinces of Hai Duong, Quang Ninh and Thanh Hoa, for a period of 9/2004-1/2011. The purpose of this project is to support growth among Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and to facilitate their access to formal economy and markets.

In order to support the implementation of this project, Oxfam-Québec is looking for a Vietnamese Project Officer (in charge of Hai Duong province).

Job Summary:
The Project Officer supports the Project Director and the project’s provincial partners, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA), in defining strategies, planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting on project activities related to the provision of business development services (BDS) to micro-, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in the assigned province in view of achieving expected project results.

Main responsibilities:
- Ensure effective liaison between the REEP project in Hanoi and partners in the assigned province by developing a relationship based on mutual trust through consultations, advice and knowledge transfer with a view toward ensuring project sustainability and building partner capacity;
- Collaborate with partners in elaborating annual and quarterly work plans;
- Ensure that activity-related budgets and expenditures presented by partners are in line with the REEP guidelines and procedures manual for partners and report any breach in this matter to Project Director;
- Assist Project Director in defining new project strategies, planning and monitoring project activities and preparing various project management reports;
- Collaborate with partners in elaborating a five-year MSME support strategy;
- Design, support and participate in province-wide development forums and related events to promote networking activities;
- Sensitize provincial partners to gender equality, quality of employment and environment and ensure gender mainstreaming in project activities;
- Monitor on an ongoing basis partners’ capacity to take additional responsibilities in the project. Provide Project Director with timely information on partners’ capacity, motives and suggestions regarding project implementation;
- Participate in the selection of consultants for project activities and provide support to consultants as needed;
- Provide logistical support for visits by international delegations.
- Document lessons learnt, methodology and development models;
- Organize and facilitate project committee meetings and ensure translation from Vietnamese to English and from English to Vietnamese during meetings;
- Perform any other related tasks as needed.

Qualification and experience:
- Advanced university degree in related field, preferably in development, business or economics.
- Extensive experience in private sector development and project management in an international NGO context;
- Good understanding of business development services in a development context;
- Good understanding of general development issues and gender mainstreaming;
- Ability to analyze and solve problems;
- Strong negotiation skills;
- High level of initiative and good self-organization;
- Ability to work collaboratively and to transfer knowledge in a capacity building context;
- Ability to deal with pressure and deadlines;
- Strong written and spoken Vietnamese and English;
- Good computer skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

How to apply:
Interested candidates should submit their CV, motivation letter (in English) and three professional referees no later than 17:00, October 12th, 2010 to Ms. Tran Thi Hoa Le at: [email protected]

Only short-listed candidates will be invited for interviews.  Applications will not be returned.

Job Details
Organisation Name: 
Oxfam Quebec
Location: 
Hai Duong
Application Deadline: 
Tue, 2010-10-12