Company Profile

For nearly 60 years, Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC) has worked globally to support children and youth who dream of a better world, serving the poor regardless of their faith, cultural, and ethnic background. We deliver our mandate by bringing together diverse people and building partnerships, driven by a common belief: education extends beyond the walls of a classroom and is the most powerful tool children can use to change their world. We focus on breaking barriers preventing access to inclusive, quality education for all, especially girls. 

Christian Children’s Fund of Canada, Ghana Country Office;
Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), commenced work in Ghana in 1996 in Tamale in the Northern Region. We currently work in 9 districts of Northern and Upper East regions covering a total of 72 communities in partnership with local NGOs.

Our Vision, Mission and Values

• Vision:  We dream of a world where every child has a voice and the ability to achieve their full potential. 
• Mission: Christian Children’s Fund of Canada creates a future of hope for children, families, and communities by helping them develop the skills and resources to overcome poverty and injustice. 
• Values: Across our work, we aim to uphold the values of results, respect, integrity, teamwork and excellence. 
• Results: With a global perspective, we take strategic action to positively transform the lives of children, families and communities. 
• Respect: We champion the rights, dignity and value of all people. We treat others as we want them to treat us. 
• Integrity: We are honest and trustworthy in all our actions. Our actions are consistent with our vision and mission. 
• Teamwork: We combine diverse expertise and personal initiative, creating a powerful synergy to accomplish our shared goals. 
• Excellence: We continually innovate and challenge ourselves to achieve the highest-quality results.

Job Description

We have a vacancy for a Program Officer (PO) in Tamale. The Program Officer will work under the supervision of the Program Manager to direct and support programs to implement monitor and evaluate their activities. This involves focusing on supporting program partners in the assigned geographic areas to plan, implement, train, evaluate and report on projects activities supported by CCFC. This is a 12 months full-time contract position with a high possibility for extension.

The Program Officer under the direction of the Program Manager is responsible for the following:

• Visiting programs and projects regularly for the purpose of ensuring plan implementation and monitoring, including financial activities.
• Ensure compliance with CCFC and donor policies, procedures and guidelines to support the quality assurance and quality control initiatives. Undertake constructive intervention when necessary.
• Direct and provide guidance to partners in participatory planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes for program/project related activities to ensure performance & reporting requirements are met.
• Lead the facilitation of community mobilization and capacity building efforts of CCFC Country Office partners and the communities served through networking, advocacy and awareness rising.
• Under supervision of program manager provide oversight to ensure successful execution and streamlining  of  grant funded projects; grant projects oversight to ensure CCFC complies to requirements of   grants projects including ChildFund Alliance supported projects, DFADT and UNICEF/ other donors.
• Conduct analysis and provide relevant reports on global and country priorities in a timely manner.
• Engage in other assignments as assigned including grant project proposal writing,  emergency response, ad-hoc projects in communities of operation.

Required Skills or Experience

• Degree in a relevant development field; post-graduate degree an asset
• Minimum four  years work experience in the development field and demonstrated ability to work independently
• Experience building relationships with development agencies, funding agencies and writing successful concept papers, grant proposals and donor reports is an asset
• Program/project planning, management, monitoring and evaluation experience, including budgeting and reporting
• Professional experience in one or more of CCFC’s key sectors: micro-enterprise development (MED), education, health, and/or water and sanitation is an asset
• Experience in practicing Results Based Management (RBM) and or use of Participatory Development Approach (PDA) tools. Experience in Logical Framework Analysis (LFA) is an asset
• Skills in group facilitation, training, capacity-building and community mobilization
• Good interpersonal communications, relationship-building, conflict management and networking skills, especially when developing / maintaining contacts and influencing development and funding agencies.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including public speaking, networking and presentation skills; ability to speak and write in English and relevant local language(s)
• Strong computer skills including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and internet; intermediate MS Project
• Ability to travel nationally