ABOUT THE ROLE
The Transparency International Secretariat is currently seeking a Project Associate (m/f/d) to join the Projects Team, to support the implementation of ongoing projects in the regions of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions: The Building Integrity and National Accountability in Lebanon (BINA) and The Digital Technologies for Civic Empowerment in Kyrgyzstan (DT4CE).
The Building Integrity and National Accountability in Lebanon (BINA)project co-implemented with Transparency International Lebanon and the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies (LCPS). The project provides trainings, mentorship, and knowledge to CSOs, municipalities and citizen groups. The project works on collective advocacy towards reform processes and monitors governments, state institutions and the general Reform, Recovery and Reconstruction Framework (3RF) implementation process following the Beirut port explosion in 2020. This would be approximately 80-85% of the role.
The Digital Technologies for Civic Empowerment in Kyrgyzstan (DT4CE) project co-implemented with Transparency International Kyrgyzstan. The project aims to increase the potential of local CSOs in Kyrgyzstan to contribute towards addressing critical governance issues that continue to affect the development of the country. DT4CE aims to improve existing digital tools and build new ones that are accessible, direct, and interactive, with the goal of empowering citizens to hold duty bearers to account and claim their legitimate interests. This would be approximately 15-20% of the role.
OVERVIEW OF KEY DIMENSIONS
Role Purpose:The Project Associate (m/f/d)is responsible for helping to coordinate the workflow, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), partner reporting and administrative and financial management of the BINA project and DT4CE projects, and ensuring that agreed goals, best practice standards, donor obligations and TI-S regulations are met relating to project implementation and MEL by TI-S and partners.
Team: Projects
Reporting Line: Subteam Lead Regional Initiatives
Starting Date: As soon as possible (mid-March 2024)
Contract Duration: Currently we can offer an employment contract up to the end of 2025, with potential further extension subject to performance and available funding
Working Hours: Full time [100%; 40 hours per week]
Location: Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S), Berlin
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE
Based in the Projects Team, the Project Associate (m/f/d) will:
- Proactively support day-to-day project implementation of the two projects in the Projects Team, ensuring consistency with TI-S processes, procedures and best practice standards
- Strive for high-quality outputs and the greatest possible impact of project activities to advance the anti-corruption agenda in the two countries
- Work in close collaboration and ensure ongoing communication with project partners in the two countries, particularly in relation to ensuring high quality and consistent standards of monitoring data, donor reporting and sub-grant management and administration
- Support project leads and partners to monitor and evaluate project/programme advocacy interventions and impact, ensure high quality and consistent MEL data collection, analysis, reporting, and strengthen gender and inclusion mainstreaming activities
- Support the coordination of work and information flow between the projects and other internal teams (e.g. Finance, Policy & Advocacy, Global Movement, Communications, Research) ensuring process integrity, as well as coordinating regular updates within the team
- Support the preparation of project proposals and outputs, including narrative/accountability reports, trainings, events, presentations, publications, communications materials, web content, etc. and financial a