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Job Overview:

We are looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented Human Resource Officer 1, to Provide administrative support for the preparation of reports, funding applications, and other documents. Handle incoming calls and emails, providing excellent customer service. Liaise with suppliers and place orders for office supplies as needed. Assist in financial tasks such as invoicing and budget tracking

Responsibilities:

• Manage schedules and appointments for senior management.
• Coordinate meetings and conferences, including arranging venues and catering.
• Prepare and distribute correspondence, memos, and reports.
• Maintain office supplies and equipment, and place orders as needed.
• Assist with the preparation of budgets and expense reports.
• Handle incoming and outgoing mail and packages.
• Organize and maintain filing systems, both electronic and physical.
• Provide general administrative support, such as answering phones and greeting visitors.
• Assist with special projects and events as assigned.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Proven experience in an administrative role.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.

Required Skills

• Organizational Skills
• Communication Abilities
• Time Management
• Attention to Detail
• Problem-solving Capabilities
• Technology Proficiency
• Customer Service Orientation

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested Candidates should submit their application, C.V and contact details of three (3) referees plus copies of academic qualifications (sent as one PDF document) indicating “the job title” in the subject line to: adminoffice@compassaction.org by 14th May 2025.

Job Purpose 

The Projects Coordinator is envisioned as a primary support to the Project Lead and to help ensure the quality of project deliverables at the community level.  They will play a vital role in ensuring that our advocacy efforts are strategic, and evidence-based, and effectively contribute to progress in the milestones of the project. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy development & implementation

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of education legal and policy reform initiatives at the Community levels.
• In close collaboration with the project leads, the Head of Advocacy, and the Education technical specialist, develop and implement county advocacy strategies for the project.
•  Responsible for the delivery of an annual implementation work plan. 
• Develop and implement relevant context-specific strategies for effective child participation within the advocacy activities in collaboration with the field office teams and relevant staff at the country office. 
• Support project leads in identifying policy and practice change, which would improve education outcomes.

Building Partnerships 

• Identify local networks and coalitions and develop sustained partnerships/ alliances that are critical in the dissemination and/or application of research findings and/or learning to influence the policy and practice landscape about education issues.
• Representing Compass Action at strategic forums, networking with strategic CSOs, and other social movement processes that are relevant to our policy work including education.  It also includes identifying and helping to identify and nurture education ‘champions’ to support our agenda.
• Support area offices to build partnerships with communities and program beneficiaries in establishing accountability mechanisms, capacity building, and knowledge management.
• Support the capacity building of program and field staff and key partners on advocacy through training, sharing best practices, and supporting learning and knowledge management. 
• Work collaboratively with external partners and stakeholders including government to align implementation efforts with broader project advocacy objectives.

Programme Management 

• Participate in Compass Action program meetings and related sessions to draw out research-based advocacy messages in programs. 
• Keep abreast of current research, national and donor policies, and debates relevant to the project. 
• In collaboration with program managers, monitor and evaluate project activities within budgets, ensuring that indicators and methods are in place to allow evaluation of the achievements and develop regular progress reports.
• Partnership and Stakeholder Engagement

 Qualifications & Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in project coordination work, as well as contributing to the development and implementation of advocacy strategies. 
• Excellent understanding of budget cycle and moments.
• Written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex arguments into accessible English for a non-specialist audience, and the ability to write articles that would be published in the mainstream press.
• Experience of effective teamwork and outstanding interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in coalition building and working with civil society actors to deliver change

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested Candidates should submit their application, C.V and contact details of three (3) referees plus copies of academic qualifications (sent as one PDF document) indicating “the job title” in the subject line to: projects@compassaction.org by 27th April 2025.

Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Job Summary:  The Accounts Officer is an integral part of finance team that supports country offices on financial issues, system and process improvement. The Accountant reports to the Head of Finance (HoF) and provides review of transactions and relevant documents.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Day to day implementation

• Reconcile the reported expenditure with the financial system of the country offices
• Prepare the fund reconciliation report with the financial report and bank reconciliation
• Review of the shared supporting documents for all the transactions from.
• Work with the submitted budget from the country to review and consolidate them for submission
• Work with the head office team to get our expenditures and supporting documents
• Review the reimbursement documents from country offices
• Read, understand, practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Partner Support and Capacity building.

• Assist in the preparation of files and documents for the smooth running of programs
• Prepare Program weekly movement plans and submit to Logistics team;
• Write reports and project documents and submit to Program Manager as required.
• Support in the use of monitoring systems and monitoring tools
• Working and building the capacity of the partners, supporting in developing institutional development plans for the local partners.
• Effectively manage tools and resources for programmes planning and development,
• Ensure that all Partner financial data associated with programs are recorded and documented.

Finance & Compliance Management

• Ensure compliance with donor and Compass Action regulations related to peace and conflict programming.
• Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

 Accountability to Beneficiaries

• Compass Action team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested Candidates should submit their application, C.V and contact details of three (3) referees plus copies of academic qualifications (sent as one PDF document) indicating “the job title” in the subject line to: accountsoffice@compassaction.org by 27th April 2025.