The Person will have the responsibility of coordinating CIPE programs in Ukraine, providing support to Head of the CIPE-Ukraine field office on regional and/or country initiatives, reporting and communications with local partners and home office in Washington.   The Program Officer provides administrative, programmatic and communication support for the program “Business Association Capacity Building: Advocacy and Coalition Building”  and with oversight and direct input from Head of the Kyiv Representative Office and CIPE headquarters implements and coordinates all the activities of the program, including both internal and external. Such activities include organizing training events, designing project materials (brochures, flyers, workbooks), disseminating topical information to program partners and collecting their feedback. The Field Office Program Officer will also be responsible for monitoring and evaluation of targeted results of the program and for reporting on those.

Required Qualifications:

• At least Bachelors degree plus equivalent years of experience required
• Minimum two years of administrative office experience.
• Minimum one year proven successful experience as a task leader on any training program for business audience or NGOs is mandatory
• Excellence in writing, reporting, and English composition.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to take initiative to manage multiple, detail oriented tasks with limited supervision.
• Excellent skills and experience of official written correspondence, paper processing, and developing promo materials desired
• Background in Eurasian (former Soviet Union) economic and political affairs and/or democracy development programs.
• Working knowledge of Eurasian (former Soviet Union) political, social, economic, and cultural environment.
• At least one year previous experience with international projects and experience in managing finances and fundraising is required
• Good presentation and negotiation skills  required
• Legal literacy and experience with managing contract relations with vendors is mandatory
• Computer knowledge of Microsoft Office, Internet, Excel and Power Point is mandatory.
• Active and advanced user of social nets, new media and internet (Facebook, InContat, Linked In, Twitter, blogging)
• Fluency in written and spoken Ukrainian, Russian and English is mandatory.
• Analytical and planning skills are critical, experience in evaluation and assessment of tasks and programs’ outputs and impacts is a mast 

CVs in English with cover letter and list of references are welcomed on [email protected] by September 24th. Final interviews of selected candidates will be hold in Kyiv on September 26th.