Vacancy Announcement

Plan cameroon is an internationnal Child Centered Community Development Organization with no religious,political or governmental affiliation working in Cameroon since 1996. We promote equal opportunity employment and pay special consideration to female candidates.

Plan is children’s organization with primary concerns on children rights, safety and well-being and has in its interest to create safe environment for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with our child protection policy.

In the context of the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT Project) in the Districts Health Center of Wum (North West) and Meiganga (Adamaroua), Plan Cameroon is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, development oriented and hardworking Cameroonian to fulfill the position of Project Coordinator to be based in its country Office (Yaounde) but with frequent visits in the field and project areas. The contract is for (Eighteen) 18 months renewable. It will be governed by Cameroon Labour Law.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITY

Under the technical supervision of the Program Operation Manager, the Project Coordinator will among many other tasks:

• Ensure the monitoring of activities on the field so as to guarantee that they are in accordance with the planning of the project and plan Cameroon’s objectives, strategies and procedures;
• Ensure the full participation of all the stake holders in all stages of the project cycle;
• Carry out field visit to monitor an supervise in each health area with partners on both administrative and financial procedures
• Ensuring the cost/effectiveness of activities
• Organize staff meeting for the project, approve reports and action plans of monitoring and evaluation specialists as well as data specialist;
• Write and submit monthly reports, interim, quarterly and annual reports of the project, as well as all useful reports to be submitted to the Program Support Manager;
• Facilitate the project participatory evaluation according to Plan Cameroon principle and procedure;
• Provide a necessary support of activities through monitoring, evaluation and research or even all the visit lead by plan and/or its partners within the  framework of the project;
• Ensure that in the implementation of the project, the results gotten from the project evaluation and recommendations by hierarchy and partners are taken into consideration;
• Assemble all necessary information for the reporting of the project for donors;
• Ensure disciple, team spirit and hardworking within the project team;
• Ensure a good quality of intervention at the level of beneficiaries, in the relationship with partners (health districts, health areas, councils, competent decentralized technical system, communities, etc.) as well as at the level of plan;
• The project coordinator will equal ensure the link between the project and other projects put in place by plan;
• Accomplish all tasks given by the supervisor including management support to other grants support teams

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• The applicant should have at least a bachelor Degree in nursing, Public Health, Social Sciences or equivalent
• Have at least 03 years continue working experience in the management of community health project;
• Experience in project management in resource poor settings would be highly appreciated;
• Be bilingual ( proper reading, speaking and writing of English and French
• Have a good mastery of computer tools and have a good aptitude in project reporting.

Skills & Behaviours:

• Have a team spirit and a strong analytical ability;
• Be able to work in a multicultural environment;
• Communicate in a style that inspires confidence and professionalism;
• Good time management;
• Be bilingual (French and English);
• Good planning and organizational skills;

Application procedure:

All applications should include:

1. Cover letter;
2. Comprehensive CV;

Interested applicants should submit their applications no later than November 28th, 2014 at 17o’clock preferably in soft copies and by e-mail to the address: Plan-Cameroon.jobvacancies@plan-international.org with a subject title: Application for Project Coordinator PMTCT.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. The candidate finally selected should comply with the child Protection Policy applied in the Organization.

NB: No application shall be admitted after the closing hour mentioned below.