Project Officer

The Project Officer will implement a pilot project promoting nurturing care in Laos to advance child-sensitive social protection. The role involves facilitating parenting education, supporting community interventions, providing technical support, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with safeguarding and gender equality standards.

• Implement project activities in line with approved plans, budgets, and timelines.
• Facilitate parenting and behavior change sessions on nurturing care, child development, nutrition, and family well-being.
• Support community and household interventions to improve child health, dietary diversity, and family budgeting practices.
• Train and mentor community facilitators, health workers, and partners.
• Promote application of the Nurturing Care Framework and age-appropriate caregiving practices.
• Provide technical support to ensure quality implementation of project activities.
• Provide technical guidance to ensure interventions meet quality standards.
• Coordinate with government authorities, health facilities, and community stakeholders.
• Participate in coordination meetings and support integration of project activities into existing systems.
• Collect, verify, and report project data in a timely and accurate manner.
• Monitor progress against project indicators and targets.
• Support assessments, reviews, learning activities, and documentation of success stories and lessons learned.
• Support activity planning, budgeting, procurement, and logistics.
• Ensure compliance with organizational and donor requirements.
• Maintain accurate project records and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding standards and policies.
• Promote gender equality, social inclusion, and equitable participation.
• Report safeguarding concerns in accordance with established procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood development, Nutrition, Public Health, Education, Social Work, Community Development, Psychology, Rural Development, or a related field.
• At least 2-3 years of experience implementing community-based development projects.
• Experience in ECD, parenting education, nutrition, health promotion, or livelihoods programming.
• Experience working with local government and community structures.
• Experience in monitoring and reporting donor-funded projects.

• Early Childhood Development
• Nutrition Programming
• Community Health Promotion
• Parenting Education
• Community Development
• Livelihood Programming
• Donor-funded Project Monitoring
• Project Reporting
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Technical Support
• Social Protection Programmes
• Safeguarding Compliance
• Gender Equality Standards
• Local Government Engagement

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