Job Description and Person Specification
Job Title: Programme Officer
Directorate: Programmes, Campaigns Band: SM2
and Innovation
Reports to: Regional Programme Step:
Manager
Location: Zebilla, Upper East Region
Job Role
Role Overview: The role is responsible for supporting rights holders, rights holders’
organisations and partners to effectively engage and challenge rights
violations and gather information on these rights violations to build
AAG’s perspectives for regional and national policy advocacy. It is also
responsible for developing and testing innovations prior to proposing
them as alternatives for replication
Accountabilities
Key Accountabilities / Key Activities
Responsibilities:
• Deepen partners and communities understanding and appreciation of
the operationalization of the Country Strategy Paper (CSP)
• Build and sustain partnership and networking relationships with key
stakeholders to influence policies and practices.
• Strengthen capacity of rights holder organisations to engage
government and local authorities on the mission objectives of the
Technical Region
backstopping • Support to develop annual critical pathways to ensure that
programme development and implementation is in line with the mission
objectives of the Country Strategy Paper (CSP)
• Contribute to Annual Plans and Budget by coordinating the processes
at partners and community levels.
• Identify, propose and pilot innovations to challenge dominant models
that undermine people’s rights in the region
• Gather information to build AAG’s perspective in regional priorities as
they relate to the region for regional and national engagement.
Regional level
• Act to raise AAG’s profile within the region through highlighting
advocacy
AAG’s best practices at fora and other public events
• Identify key issues affecting mission objectives in the region for
fundraising
Fundraising • Initiate/support to develop concept notes and proposals to raise funds
and report on successful donor projects.
• Support partners to effectively manage child sponsorship and local
Job Description and Person Specification
community sponsorship in the region
• Ensure cost effectiveness in reviewing and recommending
Resource proposals, budgets and giving timely feedback on partners’
Management reports.
• Act to ensure timely reporting and documentation.
• Monitor partners’ programmes and relationships to ensure they are
compliant with AA quality programming mix and financial management
Monitoring, procedures
reporting and • Conduct regular visit to rights holders and their communities and
documentation document the changes (or not) identified
• Submit reports on activities undertaken to meet CSP objectives
Ensure effective tracking of indicators
• Abreast with all child protection and safeguarding regulations and
comply with them.
• Educate relevant stakeholders about AA’s child protection and
Safeguarding
safeguarding policies as relevant.
obligation
• Reports poor practice or potentially abusive behaviour to supervisor.
• Ensure that parental consent is sought before taken any images or
footage of children and explain the use to which they will be put.
Typical People Management Responsibility
Internal Relations (Describe level and nature of Country Leadership Team, Senior
contacts with AAG) Management Team, all staff
External Relations (Describe level and nature of MMDAss, NGO Network, Rights Holders
contacts outside AAG) Organisations, partners
Responsibility for Assets (Describe types of The role has the responsibility of maintaining
assets directly handled or supervised) of AAG assets including computers
Person Specification
Education & At least a bachelor’s degree in social sciences or relevant field with 3
Certifications years’ experience
TECHNICAL (State core Must have good knowledge and experience in monitoring &
job knowledge/skills evaluation and child sponsorship work
required for successful Must have good facilitation skills
execution of the job) Must have a good knowledge of HRBA programming
Must have effective verbal and written communication skill
Must be computer literate and have skills and experience in
research, advocacy and lobbying work
Job Description and Person Specification
PERSONALITY
(State core personal Excellent interpersonal skills, writing, presentation and negotiation
attributes required skills, self-motivated and with an innovative mind-set, high learning
for successful ability, gender and children sensitivity, stress tolerance and good
execution of the judgement.
job)
Competency Profile
Competency What it looks like
Ability to handle conflict, confrontation, disagreement and
Tact delicate inter-personal situations in such a manner as to
solve the problem and sustain positive relationships.
Ability to control anger, frustration, tension and
Emotionality
nervousness, especially in conflict situations.
Ability to keep to time and other commitments, deliver on
Reliability
commitments to others.
Ability to challenge the status quo, promote and endorse
Change agent change through words and action.
Ability to listen to the views and ideas of other people,
Listening especially those contrary to our own, without undue
defensiveness.
Ability to write or speak in a manner that communicates the
Communication intended message without hurting other people.