Project Officer (RISE Project)

Overview

Facilitate community mobilization and project implementation.

You have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Community Development, Social Sciences, Public Health, Agriculture, Rural Development, Disaster Management, International Development, Education, Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in humanitarian, resilience, disaster risk reduction, recovery, or community development projects.
• Fluency in Myanmar language is required.
• Basic English communication and basic report-writing skills.
• Ability to work in remote, hard-to-reach, and challenging environments.
• Ability to ride and travel by motorcycle on rough terrain and in challenging field conditions is required.

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Community Mobilization and Project Implementation

• Facilitate implementation of project activities in assigned communities across WASH, Health, Nutrition, Protection, Food Assistance, MPCA, NFI, DRR, and Anticipatory Action sectors.
• Organize community meetings, awareness sessions, trainings, and community events.
• Support beneficiary targeting, registration, and verification processes.

Community Engagement and Stakeholder Coordination

• Maintain relationships with community leaders, local authorities, community groups, and local partners.
• Promote community participation and ownership of project activities.
• Facilitate community feedback and accountability mechanisms.

Monitoring, Data Collection, and Reporting

• Collect activity, beneficiary, and monitoring data.
• Support surveys, assessments, registrations, and monitoring visits.
• Prepare activity reports and maintain project records.

Support Training and Capacity Building

• Organize and support training activities for communities, volunteers, committees, and local stakeholders.
• Assist technical specialists in delivering technical sessions and awareness campaigns.

Operational and Logistics Support

• Support distributions, field events, procurement requests, transportation arrangements, warehousing, and inventory activities as needed.
• Assist with asset and commodity tracking.

Safeguarding, Accountability, Risk, and Compliance

• Promote safeguarding, PSEA, AAP, and protection principles.
• Report risks, incidents, complaints, and concerns through established mechanisms.
• Ensure compliance with World Vision and donor requirements.
• Support emergency response, assessments, surge activities, and other project tasks as required by the Project Manager.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's Degree in Community Development, Social Sciences, Public Health, Agriculture, Rural Development, Disaster Management, International Development, Education, Management, or a related field.
• Relevant field experience may be considered in lieu of formal qualifications.
• Training in humanitarian programming, safeguarding, community engagement, DRR, MEAL, or project management is an advantage.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in humanitarian, resilience, disaster risk reduction, recovery, or community development projects.
• Demonstrated experience supporting project implementation at community level.
• Experience working with communities, local authorities, community-based organizations, or local NGO partners.
• Experience in beneficiary targeting, registration, community mobilization, training, monitoring, or distribution activities.
• Experience working in conflict-affected, fragile, remote, or emergency contexts is preferred.
• Experience in one or more sectors such as WASH, Health, Nutrition, Protection, Food Assistance, Cash Assistance, Livelihoods, or DRR is an advantage.
• Fluency in Myanmar language is required.
• Basic English communication and basic report-writing skills.
• Knowledge of relevant local ethnic languages in the project area is an advantage.
• Based in the assigned township/project location.
• Up to 70% field travel within project communities and implementation areas.
• Ability to work in remote, hard-to-reach, and challenging environments.
• Willingness to travel at short notice in response to project and emergency needs.
• Good physical health and ability to travel regularly to project locations and communities.
• Ability to ride and travel by motorcycle on rough terrain and in challenging field conditions is required.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only

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