PROJECT OFFICER

JOB ADVERTISEMENT : PROJECT OFFICER - INTERSOS Cameroon, NGO
RECRUITMENT NOTICE: 01 PROJECT OFFICER
IDENTIFICATION
Job Title: Project Officer
Reports to: Project Manager
Duty station: Bamenda
Type of contract: Fixed Term
Availability: 15 March 2026
Main objective and Tasks
➢ Implementing program activities: setting up, revitalizing and building the capacity of community protection networks, monitoring and responding to protection cases.
➢ Ensure and monitor the day-to-day management of the team and programmatic activities as planned and propose changes where necessary.
➢ Ensure quality work in accordance with INTERSOS values and humanitarian principles.
➢ To ensure the availability of working resources (finance, equipment, logistics) for the team.
➢ Ensure regular reporting on field activities and maintain a good level of communication with partners.
Tasks:
1. Coordination and external representation
➢ Ensures good acceptance of INTERSOS activities and establishes positive relations with all project stakeholders at operational level (Prefecture, sub-prefecture, arrondissements, communes and villages) in the intervention zones.
➢ Represents and ensures a regular and active presence of the project and the organization at all operational technical meetings, in the intervention zones and coordination centers where the project is implemented.
➢ Ensures external coordination of the project's overall activities, where necessary.
➢ Ensures regular and active attendance at sectoral, ad hoc and general humanitarian coordination forums.
➢ Ensures the quality of the information obtained and obtains the Project Manager's validation before external submission.
2. Implementation of programme activities and supervision
Assist the project manager in implementing programme activities:
➢ Organize, with the support of the field team:
➢ Setting up and/or revitalizing community protection networks in the 05 areas targeted by the project.
➢ Capacity-building (training and awareness-raising) for community protection networks, youth leaders, women's leaders, local authorities and leaders, government officials, health workers and technical and social service workers (health, education, social centers, etc.) in human rights protection, GBV prevention and response and child protection.
➢ Raising awareness of human rights, GBV and child protection among different social and community groups through various channels (FGD, focus groups, door-to-door and outreach awareness-raising, etc.).
➢ coaching/supervising, leading and monitoring community networks.
➢ Supervising the field team (CBPOs and community workers) and specialists (GBV/CP/PSS team leaders, psychologists, database managers, etc.) in the implementation of monitoring activities and responses to survivors of GBV/CP/PSS:
➢ Monitoring cases of human rights violations and vulnerability: SGBV, UASCs, etc. in the project's target localities in order to ensure identification, recording/documentation (in accordance with GBVIMS methodology), referral and follow-up.
➢ Responses to identified cases so that survivors and victims have access to appropriate services and assistance: medical (health centre), psycho-social (counselling centre) and legal (police) care for SGBV cases, UASCs, referral to protection actors including the ICRC/appropriate state structures, family care, facilitating access to justice, etc.);
➢ Setting up and running child-, women- and girl-friendly spaces in order to gather information/alerts on cases of SVBG, UASCs, etc. from the local population.
➢ Help set up and run GBV/CP AoRs.
➢ With the support of the teams in the field and specialists, map the players and responses to cases of SGBV and UASCs.
➢ Assisting the project manager in the design, development and implementation