Recruitment at the Adamawa State Community & Social Development Agency
Employment Nigeria
25-Jan-2018
ADAMAWA ,
Government
The Adamawa State Community & Social Development Agency is recruiting for the positions below :
The objective of the CSDP is to sustainably increase access of poor people to improved social and natural resources infrastructure in a sustainable manner through the provision of grants to support the poor communities.
The project is extended to December 2020, Adamawa State Government intends to apply part of the proceeds of the credit to finance the hiring of the services of the following category of contracted or seconded staff that are competitively recruited into the service of the Adamawa State Community and Social Development Agency No 57 Atiku Abubakar Way Jimeta-Yola.
POSITION : Operations Officer
Responsibilities
- Supervise the implementation of the COPs and GDPt0 ensure quality assurance;
- Ensure timely replenishment of accounts by the CPMCs and GPMCs;
- Collect, collate and forward to the M&E Department, infomiation/data on micro-project activities in communities;
- Submission of monthly, quarterly and annual departmental reports to M&E Department on schedule, through the Manager, Operations;
- Set monthly and quarterly performance targets based on the work plan;
- Sensitise and mobilize communities on CSDP project objectives and activities as well as issues related to HIV/PJDS,
- Facilitate communities to undertake needs assessment and prioritization that are socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable;
- Facilitate communities in the formulation of CDP and GDP in line with (b) above;
- Build capacity of the CPMCs, GPMC5 and LGRC Desk Officers, as appropriate, through providing training in requisite areas e.g. Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs), record and book-keeping, project management, mainstreaming gender, environment and natural resources issues etc, as identified by the Project officer-IEC and Training
- Submit regular reports to the Project officer or relevant section for whose activity they are deployed at any point in time.
- ResponsIble to the Project officer, Supervision.
Qualification
- A first degree or HND in Engineering, Social Sciences, Biological and Natural Sciences, Business Administration, Accountancy or related field
- At least 1 year post qualification experience in any area.
- Computer literacy and willingness to learn and work extra hours and on week-ends is a must.
- Applicants are not expected to be more than 35 years as at the time of recruitment and not above Grade level 9 if recruited from the civil service.
POSITION : Project Officer - M&E
Responsibilities
- Provide an improved foundation for planning effective resource use;
- Identify unacceptably high cost interventions and operations, provide record of events,
- Provide information base for future evaluations, maintain quality standards.
- Responsible to the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager.
- Responsible for data collection, collation and analysis for field level activities.
- Provide implementation assistance to M&E Manager
- Compilation of monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
- Monitor progress towards attainment of targets and to adapt targets to realities,
- Any other duty that may be assigned by the M&E Manager.
Qualification
- A first degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Natural Sciences, Rural development and related fields
- At least 5 years post qualification experience part of must relate to monitoring and evaluation of community based initiatives.
- Computer literacy added advantage.
POSITION : Project Officer - Gender and Vulnerable
Responsibilities
- Provide input to the preparation of quarterly/ annual and requisite reports of the operations department.
- Provide inputs to the costed yearly work programmes for the operations department.
- Develop, maintain and disseminate a comprehensive knowledge base on vulnerable group perspectives to promote staff awareness
- Maintain links with and update knowledge of other relevant agencies programs on mainstreaming vulnerable groups into development agendas.
- Design strategies for the encouragement of the government and its agencies to be more supportive towards the cause of the vulnerable.
- Responsible to the Manager, Operations.
- Develop an action plan for mainstreaming vulnerable groups and gender sensitive activities in the operation of the State Agency
- Facilitate the preparation processes of CDP and GDP formulation at Community level
- Assist project team to incorporate appropriate vulnerable groups (including gender) issues into project activities.
- Assist in organizing training for line ministries, LGA, LGRC and Operations Officers in mainstreaming vulnerable and gender issues in development activities.
- Liaise with the Desk Officers in line ministries to identify mechanisms of incorporating vulnerable and gender issues into their programmes.
- Identify and articulate opportunities for integrating social safety nets in project activities.
- Prepare a quarterly report highlighting emerging issues from projects activities in mainstreaming vulnerable group/gender issues in development activities;
- Any other duties assigned by the manager, Operations.
Qualification
- First degree in Social Sciences, Natural Resources Sciences, Rural Environmental Development, Agric extension
- At least 5 years post qualification experience part of which must have been spent in CDD related areas.
- Computer literacy, experience in Gender/Vulnerable Mainstreaming and Safety nets will be an added advantage.
How To Apply
Candidates should submit their hand written applications and CV (10 copies each) with other credentials to the Office of the:
General Manager,
Adamawa State Community & Social Development Agency,
No 57 Atiku Abubakar Road,
Jimeta -Yola,
Adamawa State.
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