The organization currently has 4 operational offices with headquarters in Yaoundé. With the need to recruit visionary and passionate young peace builders to push the organization’s vision and with LOYOC being an equal opportunity employer, we are currently looking for dedicated youths who are ready to not only share our goals but grow as well with the team.

Project Implementation and Management 

• Lead the planning and management of the ‘YOUNG Cameroon project in Cameroon.
• Engage with project participants and partner organizations periodically to ensure that activities meet participants’ needs, project objectives and the key activities are taking place as planned.
• Engage with key government and non-government interlocutors, including the donor, and peace-building agencies.
• Coordinate with the Finance team in managing budgets and producing financial reporting to donors and government, ensuring compliance with any donor requirements, policies and procedures of Alert and the audit requirements.
• Create and maintain a project filing system, and ensure effective documentation including recording, documentation, and filing of project activities, M&E data, and internal and external project meetings.

Staff, Consultant and Project Management

• Line manage, support and undertake performance management of the Project Officer, and M&E Officer including work planning
• Take the lead in the drafting of Terms of References, monitor progress of deliverables and provide feedback as necessary, and ensure that the work of other project staff is consistent with the overall project implementation plan

Project Monitoring and Evaluation and Knowledge Management 

• Oversee the development of a monitoring and evaluation plan and appropriate M&E tools and ensure adoption of the tools to measure the progress.
• Coordinate the collection of relevant information from partners and staff to feed into the monitoring and evaluation of the project and work on drafting as well as finalizing donor reports and project completion reports, including financial reports, in coordination with the Project Coordinator
• Lead development of research methodologies including context analysis and other research processes and provide a strategic lead for possible adaptation responding to the contextual analysis and changes within the project.
• Lead regular reflection/review meetings, production and dissemination of high-quality project outputs, publications, and communications materials and disseminate lessons and findings internally and externally.
• Contribute to team-wide communications and knowledge management, and participate in organization-wide events and discussions on related topics/project

Leading in project compliance

• Ensure that project partners respect and apply all of LOYOC’s administrative; logistical and financial systems, as well as those of the donor – Search for Common Ground and the European Union, and respect the laws of Cameroon;
• Coordinate and organize activities with partners using a community and participatory approach to achieve the expected results of the project;
• Contribute to the development of the project’s strategy and activities ensuring they are conflict and gender sensitive.

Project Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation 

• Lead in the organization and facilitation of reflection and planning sessions with partners as often as necessary and develop recommendations for the adaptation of the strategy of the project based on the results of these sessions;
• Lead the collection of relevant information from partners to feed into the monitoring and evaluation of the project, including activity reports
• Lead in preparation of donor reports and project completion reports in coordination with the Project Manager and the M&E officer under the supervision of the Project Coordinator;
• Ensure that the partners submit timely monthly updates that conforms to the standards of LOYOC, Search and the European Union;
• Collect and give constructive feedback on partner organization’s activity reports and develop reports based on the context and other data collected from the field; submit these reports to the Project Manager in a timely fashion;
• Supervise  the undertaking of field visits as often as possible in order to ensure the effective implementation of activities by partners and ensure these are being implemented in line with the Terms of References validated by the Project Coordinator;
• Participate in preparation of Monthly, quarterly, and annual project reports in collaboration with the SPO & Monitoring and Evaluation Officer.

Contribute to LOYOC’s organizational processes and strategies

• Contribute to team-wide communications and knowledge management, and participate in organization-wide events and discussions on related topics/projects
• Any other tasks as may be reasonably required;
• Contribute and assist in weekly staff meetings, sharing regular updates on the project;

• Actively participate in LOYOC’s team meetings and other meetings as required;
• Participate in relevant coordination mechanisms.

Other relevant tasks as required by the Project Coordinator.