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The Cash Transfer Deputy Program Manager will play a key role in implementing the PROTECT IDP response in Maiduguri State (LGAs) in North-Eastern Nigeria. From May to December 2015, ACF will implement 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. 

Summary of Key Objectives:
•    Provide support to ACF’s Emergency Program Manager (EPM) to implement of the program. 
•    Manage field teams within cash sub sector to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence in all cash interventions.
•    Ensure tracking and reporting of technical activities under cash subsector.
•    Participate in regular internal and external coordination for the program at LGA level and at state level when required.

Qualifications; Essential Skills & Experience:  
•    Degree in FSL related studies e.g. agro-economy, natural resource management, anthropology, etc.
•    Minimum two years’ work experience in humanitarian contexts, with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts.
•    Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
•    Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
•    Previous experience with cash transfer programming.
•    Three years relevant work experience 
•    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 English
•    Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy

Preferred
•    Previous experience managing multispectral cash transfer programs (i.e. cash transfers or vouchers for nutrition, FSL, WASH, NFI, etc.)
•    Previous experience with ACF
•    Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
•    Fluency in Hausa or Kanoori

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The Cash Supervisor will directly report to Cash Deputy Program Manager will play a key role in implementing the PROTECT IDP response in Maiduguri State (LGA) in North-Eastern Nigeria. From May to December 2015, ACF will implement 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. 

Summary of Key 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 mobilisation 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; Essential Skills & Experience:  
•    Degree in Accountancy and food security related field e.g. Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies etc.
•    Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
•    Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
•    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

Preferred
•    Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers) 
•    Previous team management and activity planning experience 
•    Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy
•    Previous experience with ACF
•    Previous donor programming experience (e.g. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) 
•    Analytical capacity
•    Good relational qualities
•    Good knowledge of  techniques and agricultural/animal health production systems
•    Good knowledge of implementing projects
•    Capacity to write high quality reports