Vacancy Announcement: Project Officer
- Position: Project Officer
- Category: Legal, Human Rights
- Location: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
- Employment Type: One year fixed term contract
- Salary: As per the organization scale
- Deadline: 5 days from this announcement
- Residency Requirement: Applicants must currently reside in Dire Dawa.
- Background
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is an Ethiopian civil society organization re-registered on September 19, 2019, before the FDRE Civil Societies Organizations Authority as per Proclamation No. 1113/2019. Currently, LHR is implementing a project aimed at advancing human rights through legal aid services to make pre-trial legal assistance accessible to detainees in the early stages of criminal proceedings in police stations. Accordingly, LHR is seeking to hire one (1) project officer to be stationed in Dire Dawa.
- Role and Responsibilities
The Project Officer will be responsible for day-to-day coordination and field-level implementation of the project, including:
- Coordinate project activities and monitor implementation against the approved work plan.
- Organize and document capacity-building sessions for justice-sector stakeholders.
- Coordinate the production and broadcasting of radio legal-awareness programs.
- Liaise with police, prosecution, judiciary, legal aid providers, civil society organizations, media partners, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Coordinate project logistics, procurement, participant mobilization, venues, and other field-level arrangements.
- Maintain accurate project records, attendance sheets, activity documentation, and financial supporting documents.
- Prepare activity reports, field monitoring notes, and inputs for monthly, quarterly, and donor reports.
- Support monitoring of project outputs, results, challenges, and lessons learned.
- Support organization of the project closeout workshop.
- Perform other project-related duties assigned by the Project Coordinator.