Community Mobilization Field Assistant and Cash Supervisor at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International
Employment Nigeria
15-Nov-2015
BORNO , MAIDUGURI ,
Audit
Action Against Hunger | ACF-International works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy.
JOB POSITION: Community Mobilization Field Assistant
Position Overview
The Community Mobilization Supervisor will primarily be responsible for assisting the implementation of community mobilization in all the projects including WASH, Nutrition and food security and livelihoods to provide IDP and vulnerable host households with all relevant information, trainings and orientations related to the projects in assigned LGA and nutrition behavior change communication training in a bid to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria.
Specific Objectives:
- Provide support to ACF’s community mobilization supervisor to implement mobilization activities in ACF program in Maiduguri at LGA level.
- Manage community mobilization field teams within sector to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence in all ACF mobilization, trainings and IEC material Building.
- Ensure tracking and reporting of activities under community mobilization of all sector (FSL, WASH and Nutrition).
- Participate in regular internal and external coordination for the program at LGA level and at state level when required.
Qualifications
- Degree in FSL or WASH, Nut related studies e.g. Agro-economy, Natural Resource Management, Anthropology, Public Health Engineering, Nutrition etc.
- Minimum one year’ work experience in humanitarian contexts, with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts.
- Essential Skills and Experience:
- Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
- Excellent team representation competencies
- Previous experience with Community Mobilization programming.
- One year relevant work experience
- Microsoft Office Skills
- Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
- Fluency in local languages
- Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Previous experience of mobilization in different interventions (i.e. cash transfers, wash, Nutrition)
- Previous experience with ACF
- Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
- Fluency in Hausa or Kanoori
JOB POSITION: Cash Supervisor
Position Overview
- The Cash Supervisor will play a key role in implementing the PROTECT IDP response in Borno State in North-Eastern Nigeria.
- ACF is implementing a multi-sectoral emergency response program to support IDPs in settlement and camps, and most vulnerable host households in a bid to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria.
Specific Objectives
- Provide support to the Deputy Program Manager to implement the program successfully.
- Facilitate program coordination and monitoring and evaluation of the FSL activities.
- Facilitate community mobilization activities to support targeting and registration of beneficiaries and improve FSL/Cash Base Interventions knowledge, attitudes and practices
- Represent ACF externally in relevant LGA level forums and technical working groups
- Ensure the proper HR management of the field based Cash team
Qualifications
- Degree in Accountancy and food security related field e.g. Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies etc.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
- Previous experience with Cash, food security and livelihoods programming.
- Three years relevant work experience
- Capacity to supervise a team
- Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)
- Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
- Fluency in Hausa, Kanoori and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy
- Previous donor programming experience (e.g. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA)
- Analytical capacity
- Good knowledge of techniques and agricultural/animal health production systems
Note:
To be considered, applications must include a CV and letter of interest, and indicate the full position title in the email subject line.
Applications received without these specifications will not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, no phone calls or follow-ups will be entertained.
Qualified women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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