Liaison Officer Morocco
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26 Jan 2025
Title
Liaison Officer Morocco
Reports to
MENA Programme Coordinator
Salary
105.49 EUR per day
The consultant will contribute to the implementation of MRG’s regional project: Minorities, Accountability and Civic Space (MACS) in Morocco mainly. The consultant will help MRG in the capacity building of civil society in Morocco. They will work closely with sub-granted organizations, including overseeing the delivery of activities under subgrants and maintain the flow of information, monitoring and reporting to MRG.
Working hours: 2.5 days/ week
Days: charge up to 115 days per year
Location: Morocco
The consultant will be expected to:
Program Management and Activities
- Coordinate the project activities in Morocco with the support of the MENA Programmes Coordinator and other team members.
- Maintain communication with grantees, and act as a link between MRG and grantees
- Capacity assessment visits and monitoring of grantees
- Translation of application materials (if needed) and consultative role in the grant selection process
- Facilitate the participation of civil society in trainings and advocacy events
- Collect issues to be addressed by grantees and mentor them with solutions
- Monitor sub-grants implementation
- Assist in preparation of exchange meetings
- Assists grantees in reporting and translate sub-grantees final reporting (if needed)
- Gather relevant news and information to be shared on website
- Support with advocacy statements, interventions and support research and documentation.
- Support local organizations’ advocacy and communication
Finance and Administrative responsibilities
- Administrative support for project events, including trainings, exchange meetings and advocacy meetings at national and European level
- Maintain project documentation, write minutes, reports and collect data
- Support Finance with documentations related to payments (e.g. payment requests)
- Review of grantees’ financial reports and supporting documents (collect, sort, check and translate into English if needed)
- Regularly liaising with grantee organizations and MRG attending program related meetings
- Develop project contact lists for reports and mailing of reports
- Support the Coordinator in the preparation of Project Monitoring and Evaluation tools
- Maintain an awareness of MRG’s security guidelines, including those on digital security and data protection, and follows these when carrying out the work, as well as any other precautions as determined by line manager.
- Report any information that signals a change in the risk profile of MRG’s activities to a relevant manager.
- Is responsible for ensuring staff under supervision follow MRG’s security guidelines.
- Monitor the changing risk profile of MRG’s activities and appropriateness of the security guidelines for all activities carried out by teams reporting to the consultant and implement specific precautions as needed (where relevant) in consultation with MRG’s managing staff.
- Undertake such other tasks as may reasonably be requested by Head of MENA and MENA Programmes Coordinator from time to time.
- Attend staff and departmental meetings.
- Contribute to the evaluation of MRG activities and publications.
- Cover for absent staff on related work as necessary.
Confidential information
Responsible for maintaining confidentiality as the work holder will be entitled to a level of access to confidential information pertaining to MRG’s strategies, detailed financial information, and also access to sensitive external information which may impact on MRG’s activities. Is aware that maintaining confidentiality requires following such digital security and data protection guidelines as determined by MRG.
Travel and security
The consultant will be working remotely. The work will require some travel, essential to the implementation of the program’s activities; this will be mainly internally and occasionally internationally. The work holder is required to maintain the pace of work which may at times be high and will need to manage several tasks simultaneously.
The consultant should be aware that the work may involve a level of risk. Activities carried out may be unpopular with authorities or sections of society. The consultant will need to display a high awareness of risk and be able to work to mitigate those risks (with support from line manager, where needed.) The work will involve the handling of high-risk data in a high-risk setting. Must at all times display the necessary due diligence and precaution and report any concerns or incidents to line manager.
The selected consultant will have:
- University degree in relevant area such as human rights, political science, international relations, or social science
- At least two years’ experience and familiarity with civil society in Morocco.
- Experience working with grassroot organizations.
- Experience working in human rights field, preferably on the rights of minorities and indigenous people.
- The ability to draft reports and statements
- Fluent in English, Arabic and French
- Experience organizing events and meetings.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, including experience with prioritizing tasks
- Interpersonal skills, the ability to maintain good working relations with partners
- An excellent team player
- Commitment to the aims and objectives of Minority Rights Group and commitment to gender equity
- Enthusiastic about working in a multicultural environment and committed to equal opportunities
- Experience of working in complex security environments including following (and at times contributing to the development of) guidance on digital security and protection
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, including following guidance on digital security and data protection
They will also ideally have:
- Experience in financial management (payments, contracts, budget management)
- Experience in sub-granting procedures and standards
- Familiar with, and able to comply with, EU project requirements