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Vacancy title:
Project Assistant

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Management ]

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Sightsavers

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, June 12 2024 

Duty Station:
Within Zambia , Lusaka, South - Central Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 29 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Location: Lusaka, Zambia Contract: 2 year FTC (renewable) Salary: Local terms and conditions apply
The Project Assistant Economic Empowerment supports the Economic Empowerment project to manage activities and relationships with key stakeholders. The post-holder ensures the project is planned, implemented, coordinated, monitored, evaluated, and adapted to the highest possible quality standards.
Sightsavers team Zambia have a great opportunity for a Project Assistant Economic Empowerment to join their team. The role supports delivery of a first-class project through planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and adaptation of the highest possible quality standards. If you have strong attention to detail, excellent time management with programme knowledge in the field of disability inclusion then we would like to hear from you.

Principal Accountabilities
• Advocating Sightsavers to partners regarding the current initiatives underway with whom we can work to achieve the project and organisations strategic objectives to give people with disabilities equal rights and opportunities.
Managing the full project life-cycle with partners from to closeout
Liasing with the Global Technical Leads (Disability Inclusive Economic Empowerment) and other internal stakeholders.
Supporting the coordination and implementation of project activities and sharing of lessons learned.
Supporting the review of reporting timelines for both donors and country office
Facilitating meetings with partners to advocate and disseminate shared learnings
Support project partners with budgets, forecasts, timely financial returns
Support Ethics and data protection through protocol development for approval by appropriate approval boards as required
Proactively share relevant case studies, interesting news stories, participate in advocacy work

Knowledge, skills and experience
• A qualification/tertiary degree or above in social sciences, education, development studies or public health
Demonstrable experience with labour market issues including labour market assessments, skills training/development, internships, employer engagement, disability inclusion, job placements and job fairs
Familiarity with national legislation and policies in the field of disability, human rights
An understanding of and commitment to the realization of the rights of people with disabilities
Monitoring and evaluation
Strong communication and time management
Previous experience working with budgets, forecasts and reports both internally and with partners
Strong IT with knowledge of global ICT systems desirable
Strong written and spoken English.
Current and ongoing right to work in Zambia
• The Project Coordinator EE is a varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.
• The deadline to apply for the opportunity is 2 June 2024 23.59 BST UK.
• We intend to conduct interviews week commencing 10 June 2024 onwards. The recruitment process will include an on-site interview at the Zambia office lasting up to one hour. Depending on the response we reserve the right to close this role early.
• As an equal opportunity Employer we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader therefore qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
• Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months:

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Zambia
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Wednesday, June 12 2024
Duty Station: Lusaka
Posted: 29-05-2024
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 29-05-2024
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 29-05-2066
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