Programme Officer (Emergency Response) at CBM International

Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria; with travels within the north-east & Abuja
Contract duration: 1 year
Contract type: Full-time
Contract start: As soon as possible

Objective

• CBM is seeking a Programme Officer (Emergency Response) to support emergency response projects in the north-east, funded by CBM Germany and BMZ.
• In close cooperation with local implementing partners, the Programme Officer (Emergency Response) assumes responsibility for the smooth running of CBM-supported emergency response projects from the planning phase to final evaluation.

Main Tasks
Planning and implementation:

• Detailed programme planning with implementing partners and other key stakeholders
• Strong collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including the governments
• Facilitate joint meetings and activities among partners
• Monitoring and knowledge management
• Monitor plan design and implementation
• Data collection
• Development of detailed multi-year plans
• Deliverables and milestones planning
• Breakdown of complex activities into tasks
• Updates on risk assessment (and risk management)
• Regular updating of all plans
• Data analysis and interpretation
• Recommendations and corrective measures
• Scheduling of evaluation, including ToR’s development, consultant selection, evaluation coordination and integration/use of recommendations in decision-making
• Documentation of lessons learnt and good practices.

Reporting:

• Monitoring / progress reporting, according to donor’s requirements
• Other types of reports issuing
• Prepare project briefs, reports and presentations as required.

Partnership:

• Partnerships implementation and follow up (rights and obligation)
• Support to partners for elaboration of annual and quarterly budgets and activity plans
• Capacity building needs identification and implementation
• Support to partners in reporting
• Active involvement in cluster meetings and activities
• Networking among emergency response clusters.

Other duties:

• Other relevant assigned duties, as necessary.

Qualifications

• University Degree/ HND in Psychology, Law, Sociology, Development or other related Social Sciences field is required; Master's Degree will be added advantage;
• Minimum of three (3) years specific professional experience working in complex and challenging field operational contexts;
• Prior experience with international development organizations, particularly with transition programming, and/or programs that have both national and community-level engagement;
• Fluency in oral and written communication skills; particularly in English language.