Senior Project Associate (Livelihoods)

The Senior Project Associate supports the Program Coordinator in planning, coordinating, and implementing livelihoods activities across assigned governorates in Iraq. The role involves operational follow-up, monitoring, reporting, and coordination with field teams and stakeholders to ensure quality and timely delivery of livelihoods programs. Responsibilities Support the Program Coordinator in planning, coordinating, and implementing livelihoods activities across the assigned governorates in line with approved workplans, donor requirements, and IOM policies and procedures. Support the Program Coordinator in the day-to-day operational follow-up of livelihoods interventions, including tracking implementation milestones and identifying delivery gaps. Provide day-to-day guidance and operational follow-up to the team leaders and relevant field teams to promote harmonized, timely, and quality implementation across locations. Support the Program Coordinator in beneficiary targeting, verification, prioritization, and selection processes to ensure transparent, criteria-based, and well-documented implementation. Undertake regular travel to field locations to monitor implementation progress, check the quality and timeliness of activities, identify operational bottlenecks, and support field teams in addressing implementation challenges. Support the Program Coordinator in strengthening the capacity of field teams through regular field presence, including on-the-job coaching, mentoring, troubleshooting, and reinforcement of standard operating procedures and tools. In coordination with the Program Coordinator, review field-level documentation, case files, activity records, and implementation updates to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance prior to onward submission and action. Track implementation progress against agreed plans, targets, and timelines, and follow up with relevant units on delays, payment issues, procurement actions, contractual matters, and other operational bottlenecks affecting delivery. Support and monitor timely and accurate data collection, consolidation, and reporting from field teams, and contribute to updates in relevant information management systems, trackers, and reporting tools. Conduct monitoring visits, spot checks, and validation exercises to verify implementation quality, reported progress, and strengthen compliance with agreed methodologies and standards. In coordination with the Program Coordinator, participate in internal and external coordination meetings with local authorities, partners, community representatives, service providers, and other stakeholders to support effective implementation and problem-solving. Support the Program Coordinator, when specifically delegated during the Program Coordinator’s absence, in maintaining routine operational continuity and day-to-day follow-up of livelihoods activities, while referring strategic, sensitive, supervisory, and higher-level management matters through the appropriat