Project Officer Policy & Advocacy
Palladium International Pty Ltd
01 December 2015 —
01 June 2016
As the role holder of the position of Project Officer, I worked in a team comprising three Project Officers and a line manager- Provincial Policy and Advocacy Manager. I worked in close collaboration with other technical teams i.e. voice and accountability, M&E, research monitoring and evaluation; and community empowerment
District Advocacy Forums (DAFs):
• Established and organized District Advocacy Forums and facilitated its meetings by undertaking the sub-activities that include:
o Identifying key stakeholders, Lobbying meetings, Official correspondence, Agendas development, Extending invitations, Doing follow up confirmations
o Advocacy meetings with decision-makers for addressing demands raised by DAF members
Provincial Advocacy Forum
• Assisted the provincial P&A manager in establishing and organizing PAF meetings by:
• Undertaking follow up and confirmations, Looking after the logistics arrangements in coordination with the operations team, Assisting in the documentation of proceedings
Power Change Analysis
• Undertook regular data collection to collate it for district-level Power Change Analysis exercise
Data Demand and Information Use
• Organize District Level DDIU Trainings which interalia included:
• Identification of participants, Developing agendas, Ensuring participation, Collecting feedback, Providing inputs for improving the design
Advocacy with Local Government
• Contributed to the roll-out of advocacy with local government representatives
Other Duties
• Collected and provide information for the Knowledge Management Platform of EVA
• Facilitated the data collection of the project such as identification of case studies, most significant change, challenges, success stories, etc
• Prepared budgets for DAF and DDIU meetings to support P&A manager for PAF and provincial DDIUs budgets
Coordination
• Maintained close liaison with the Community Empowerment and Voice and Accountably teams
• Coordinated with community elders, notables and local civil society organizations in the area.
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Reporting
• Supported implementation of M&E systems and tools, and collect case studies
• Provided support to write monthly and quarterly reports