Under the responsibility of the SECFRON III Project Manager, the Project Officer will work closely with other members of the project team and Expertise France country office in Amman.

He/She contributes to the quality, coherence and visibility of project implementation without holding overall responsibility for delivery, budget, staff management or institutional representation, which remain under the authority of the Project Manager.

The Project Officer works in close coordination with the project team, the Expertise France Country Office and relevant HQ departments, and acts as a key operational support function, ensuring that information, tools and processes are properly prepared.

He/she provides support to the Project Manager in:

1. Reporting and document preparation;

2. Monitoring and evaluation activities;

3. Communication and coordination

Specific responsibilities:

In more detail, but not limited to, the Project Officer will be expected to perform the following activities:

          Reporting, documents preparation:

•  Collect, consolidate and quality-check project inputs required for reporting exercises;
• Draft narrative sections of progress and final reports based on validated data, for review, arbitration and validation by the Project Manager; Focal point for the USP, under the Project Manager supervision, to facilitate contracting and financial steps and assist the team on administrative and financial to fulfil EF internal processes ;
• Under the Project Manager supervision, prepare documentation for project review exercises (mainly procurement plan and BFU); ;
• Work with the Project Manager to prepare steering committee meetings and draft minutes;
• Support the Project Manager in preparing meeting minutes;
• Collaborate with service providers to ensure follow-up on their activities, and contribute to the review of documents submitted.

     Monitoring and evaluation:

• Support the Project Manager in updating the project's monitoring and evaluation/capitalisation plan and ensure its implementation and monitoring within the budget and deadlines. Implementation will involve updating the project's M&E tools (theory of change, logical framework, indicators, risk matrix) and internal monitoring tools (“RPP”, etc.) to monitor the progress of activities and their proper execution;
• Support to M&E exercises requested at the agency or donor level by collaborating with the project team and any M&E experts mobilised (e.g. monitoring of evaluation and capitalization exercises conducted by external evaluators);
• Under the Project Manager supervision, and in collaboration with MEAL officer, identify and share the impacts observed, risks and threats, and success factors in the implementation of project activities, and participate in decision-making for corrective measures;
• Facilitate the documentation of results, successful experiences and lessons learned from the project with a view to continuous improvement and sharing.

     Communications and coordination:

•      Update the project's communication and visibility plan as needed, in conjunction with the European Union and in collaboration with the Regional Communication Officer;
•      Implement the activities set out in the project's communication and visibility plan, in accordance with the budget, terms and deadlines (visual identity, digital and event-based communication);
• Monitor communications and other publications in the audiovisual media, print media, on the Internet and social networks relating to the project, defence and security actions, support for partners in the fight against terrorism, and security incidents.

      Cross-cutting tasks:

• Participate in the recruitment of external service providers for the implementation of M&E, communication activities, or other actions required for the project.