Project Officer - ROHA

About the role

VillageReach is seeking an experienced Project Officer to provide programmatic and operational support for the ROHA (Rapid Response Outreach & Humanitarian Action) program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The program covers the humanitarian provinces of the east (Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema and Tanganyika) and the Next Generation of Supply Chain provinces of Haut Lomami and Lualaba. The officer supports the Senior Program Manager in strategic planning, coordination and supervision of the rapid-response and humanitarian action team.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Senior Program Manager in strategic planning, execution and oversight of the ROHA program across the selected provinces.
• Help manage grant milestones so that deliverables are executed on time and to quality standards.
• Take part in performance monitoring meetings and benchmark administrative vaccination coverage data monthly, ranking zones from best to worst to encourage emulation.
• Produce quarterly reports on successes, lessons learned and challenges.
• Monitor key indicators: vaccine availability rate, drop-out rate, strategy implementation rate and quality supervision rate.
• Oversee award budgets across provinces, including expense approvals within delegated thresholds, reforecasting and final review, and manage consultant contracts and subawards with partner due diligence.
• Maintain award records, deliverables and programme documentation on SharePoint according to the DRC filing key, and document donor discussions in minutes or summaries shared with donors, the Senior Management Team, the programme team and Grants & Contracts.
• Escalate challenges to the Senior Program Manager and carry out other tasks assigned by line management.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in program management, public health, logistics or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in immunization and public health.
• Experience managing complex projects (budgets, awards, contracts and subawards) in a matrixed organization, and experience working with the DRC Ministry of Health.
• Extensive knowledge of managing health programs in emergencies such as outbreaks, displacement and conflict.
• Excellent command of spoken and written French, and cultural competency with diverse groups, including displaced populations.

Required skills

• Strong program-management skills and multi-donor humanitarian coordination experience.
• Superb writing skills and ability to analyse information for decisions and presentations.
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel).