Manager, Child Protection Project at COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale

Employment Nigeria 07-Oct-2017 BORNO , MAIDUGURI , NGO

COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale, a humanitarian, non-confessional not for profit organization. We are recruiting for the position below:

POSITION : Child Protection Project Manager, OFDA

Purpose

The Child Protection Project Manager will be responsible for the technical aspects of all child protection-related programming for COOPI emergency response in Maiduguri and Borno State, which includes child protection case management, psychosocial support and community based child protection mechanisms, nutrition and IYCF related activities.
Expected to lead on child protection-related assessments, programme design and implementation and coordination with stakeholders, in collaboration with Protection and Education Program Manager and the Head of Mission.
Oversee the monitoring & evaluation of child protection activities and will be responsible for the development of donor reporting.
Expected to build the capacity of the team, mainstreaming child protection across other sector of interventions and ensuring coordination with the Protection Cluster at Maiduguri and Abuja Level.

Responsibilities

Plans and monitors the activities’ progress, in compliance with the contract signed with the donor and with COOPI and the donor’s procedures.

Institutional Relations:

Communicates with the donors’ officers, the local authorities which are competent in the aspects related to the project, the project’s partners and beneficiaries, in compliance with the organization’s guidelines.

New Projects’ Writing:

Elaborates, writes and prepares all necessary documents to present new projects, in accordance with the organization’s processes and procedures.

Administrative and Financial Management:

Plans all expenditures to make.
Regularly monitors all made expenditures.
Supervises accounting and the project cash safe/bank account management and, where there was no dedicated staff, he/she directly manages the accounting and the project cash safe/bank accounts, making use of the instruments made available by the organization (Merlino).
Prepares the Purchases Plan.
Ensures the organization and donor’s procedures respect when purchasing goods and services.

Reporting:

Ensures the preparation, in compliance with the deadlines, of all financial and narrative reports - interim and final - expected by the project.
Responsible for the preparation of all formal communication and contract modifications requests (ex. budget modification) of the projects he manages.

Staff Management:

In coordination with the Head of Mission and in compliance with the country’s rules/laws and with the COOPI’s regulation in the country, he/she selects the local staff to be employed in projects, and manages any other project’s expatriate staff.
By making use of the organization’s tools he/she evaluates the local staff employed for projects and he/she participates to the evaluation of his/her own project, upon request by his/her direct supervisor.
Coordinates and supervises the work done by all the project staff, in compliance with the organization’s security procedures.
Responsible for the initial and continuous training of the local staff under his/her responsibility.

Goods Management:

He/she is responsible of the correct management of all goods purchased for the project, both directly and purchased by other offices/field offices8.
For all goods purchased by the project he/she updates the inventory, in cooperation with the Administrative Coordinator.

The candidate

HAve an Advanced Degree in Protection or related field or equivalent work.
5 years experience in the humanitarian field as project or programme manager or in a similar position. Demonstrated experience in protection or related field in fragile states, including IDPs, refugees and returnees context.
Ability to organize work efficiently and deliver assignments in a timely manner often under time constraints;
Proficiency in written and spoken English;
Computer literacy, with high proficiency in the use of standard office software applications (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint);
Experience of working within an insecure environment with responsibility for security planning, monitoring and management.
Strong analytical and practical problem-solving skills;
Strong supervisory abilities, and demonstrated capacity of teamwork and of coordination with the relevant actors;
Very good inter-personal and writing communication skills;

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