Project Officer at TREE AID

We have started building our professional LinkedIn page. Follow Company: TREE AID Location: Ghana State: Tamale Job type: Full-Time Job category: NGO Jobs in Ghana No views yet Job Description INTRODUCTION: TREE AID is an international development organization formed in 1987 in the UK and it is working in the drylands of Africa, supporting the rural poor to escape from climate variabilities and protect the environment. TREE AID has operations in Ghana, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and now Senegal. The head office of TREE AID is located in Bristol UK and the West Africa office is located in Burkina Faso. In Ghana, TREE AID is working more in the five (5) regions of northern Ghana. JOB DESCRIPTION JOB TITLE: Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reduction Project (GSLERP) Project Officer OVERALL AIM: To lead TREE AID’s project implementation in the Northern Region of Ghana. The role will be to work with partners and stakeholders to implement activities to time and budget, whilst ensuring the expected impacts for targeted communities through good monitoring and reporting. REPORT TO: Ghana Country PROGRAMME Manager (GCPM) JOB DURATION: One year period renewable subject to funding availability and and demonstrated performance Duty Station: Based in Yendi with scope of working in Gusheigu municipality and Mion district Objectives 1 Guide and Support communities on the implementation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation of projects 2 Support the development of TREE AID Ghana’s wider programme 3 Project Monitoring and evaluation 4 Perform other duties MAIN TASKS

• Guide and Support communities on the implementation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation of projects

• Lead in the day to day field implementation of project activities.

• Lead on Tree Aid’s initiatives to working with stake holders to increase project impacts

• Coordinate efforts in ensuring the continuous availability of natural resources upon which rural enterprises rely on.

• Mobilise community members into formidable working clusters to jointly undertake environmental protection and management initiatives.

• Promote community governance systems geared towards natural resources management.

• Provide capacity building of project beneficiaries to enable them effectively and efficiently for a common purpose.

• Provide technical, financial and project management advice and recommendations to partners/stakeholders where appropriate.

• Facilitate the development of livelihood options on natural resource base and improved market orientation and linkages.

• Support the development of TREE AID Ghana’s wider programme

• Support the identification and tracking of opportunities for new projects development in Ghana in line with TREE AID strategy plan.

• Contribute to the identi...