Job: Programme Assistant at Austrian Red Cross Company

Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Category:

Type: Full-time

Deadline: 15-Sep-18 00:00:00

Salary:

Description
The Austrian Red Cross (AutRC) Programme Assistant in the AutRC office Yerevan will support the overall programme management in collecting information and documents for narrative reports as well as collecting relevant information to support the monitoring of the action progress, and give administrative support as per programme requirements. The Programme Assistant will report to and work closely with the AutRC Overall Programme Manager.
The specific objective of the EU-funded 3-year programme "Increased Resilience of Syrian Armenians and Host Population" (IRIS) is to improve social and economic resilience of Syrian Armenians and host population and to strengthen institutional capacities for economic growth in Armenia. The programme will be implemented by Armenian Caritas, Armenian Red Cross Society, Centre for Coordination of Syrian Armenians' Issues and SME Cooperation Association.

Responsibilities
- Support the AutRC Overall Program Manager in all project-related activities of IRIS partners according to agreed time schedules;
- Support the monitoring of the project activities implementation of the respective partners as per M&E plan;
- Support the collecting and completing documentation of project activities in a timely manner according to EU requirements and AutRC standards;
- Support in ensuring project-related linkages between the project implementation of the respective partners with AutRC Overall Program Manager consultation;
- Proactively support fostering information exchange of partners and stakeholders with AutRC Overall Program Manager consultation;
- Share information promptly about programme activity implementation with the AutRC Overall Programme Manager;
- Collect monthly activity reports and quarterly achievement reports from the partners and analyse and comment them together with AutRC Overall Programme manager;
- Regularly collect, search for and screen publications and documents serving as means of verification for indicators;
- Proactively support AutRC Project Manager in project related activities, evaluations and EU reporting;
- Assist in the organisation of AutRC HQ support and monitoring visits to Armenia;
- Other project related tasks as assigned by the AutRC Overall Programme Manager;
- Support in organisation of meetings/ conferences;
- Manage fixed asset records of project partners and programme management office;
- Perform other administrative tasks as required by the AutRC Overall Programme Manager.

RequiredQualifications
- University degree, preferably in the field of Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics, Political Science or similar;
- At least 3 years of experience in international project management, including preferably in EU-funded projects;
- Proven project cycle management skills;
- Proven organisational, coordination and communication skills;
- Energetic, proactive and creative person oriented to problem solving;
- Excellent skills in team work;
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Armenian and English languages;
- Dedication to Red Cross/ Red Crescent fundamental principles;
- Syrian-Armenian background is an asset.

Benefits

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