We Are Hiring
Position Title: Program Officer
Reports to: Programs Coordinator
Work schedule: Mondays-Saturdays (48 hours)
Duty Station: Gbarpolu county- with frequent travels to counties of operation
Application Deadline: July 30,2026
About Us: Kids’ Educational Engagement Project (KEEP) is a non –governmental organization that works at the grassroots level in Liberia and focuses on providing various support in the education sector, particularly at the primary school level. KEEP also engages in women & girls’ empowerment, economic livelihood, access to justice, promotion of rights in schools, strengthening youth education through computer and reading literacy programs, child sponsorship and advocacy.
Job Summary:
The Program Officer is responsible for supporting with program activities including the development of concept notes, budgets, work plans, conducting of field training on a wide variety of activities including but not limited to gender and education projects. The Program Officer will also support with community engagement, information dissemination, fundraising etc.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Serves as lead on key donor specific projects as assigned.
- Prepares monthly program reports for projects being managed.
- Attends consultative meetings with relevant coalitions and forums and ministries to represent KEEP and provide feedback summary.
- Supports with the development of concept notes and ideas on programme being developed or applied for.
- Represent KEEP Liberia at County level coordination meetings.
- Support project monitoring and document progress include successful human-interest stories of impact.
- Maintain a proper filing and documentation system for programme activities.
- Coordinates the compilation of KEEP’s Annual Report.
- Support with the compilation of stories of impact for KEEP’s blog and website and social pages.
- Support with developing of training plans and modules.
- Support with donor management and fundraising activities.
- Ensure implementation is in compliance with KEEP’s established policies and procedures.
- Perform any other duty as may be required.
- Collate information on donor-funded projects and produce a donor reporting schedule.
- Perform any other duty as may be required.
Qualifications
- Must have a bachelor’s degree in Social Work or a closely related field of study.
- Must know how to ride a motorcycle.
- Minimum of 3 years previous work-related skills with a non-governmental organization.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office 2003/2007, ability to use word processing, spreadsheet, data analysis package and database software; email and internet
- Community engagement experience is desired.
- Good communication skills required. Both written and spoken.
- Must be able to communicate fluently in English (written & spoken).
- Ability to multitask and deal with stressful situations and problem solve.
- Ability to work in a fast space environment and a team setting.
- Available to work at flexible schedule that may include evenings and sometimes weekends and or holidays based on project activities.
Application Procedure:
Interested applicants are asked to submit a cover letter and a resume to grace.zikeh@keeplib.org along with educational credentials. Applicants should also indicate the position they are applying for.
