Senior Coordination and Liaison Officer at ACTED Nigeria

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

About the Job

• Senior Coordination and Liaison Officer will be responsible for to develop and maintain positive working links with Federal, State, and Local Government authorities, in order to ensure positive and productive engagement within the scope of the ECHO-funded Recovery to Resilience programme.

Your Main Duties and Responsibilities will be:

• Lead a high-level stakeholder mapping exercise to identify the key individuals and structures with whom ACTED should engage in Maiduguri, under the Area-Based Urban DRR project:
• Identify and map the relevant structures and departments within State; Municipal; and Local government levels, producing a Multi-Level Stakeholder Relationships, Roles, and Responsibilities Map, which will inform ACTED’s stakeholder engagement plan
• Identify and map key personnel within State; Municipal; and Local government, and develop a stakeholder engagement plan for how to approach these individuals and units as key stakeholders to the programme
• Develop and manage relationships with identified key stakeholders in relevant ministries/departments/structures, at State, Municipal, and Local level, to ensure their active participating in the program
• The forum should function as a support structure to promote sustainable local development beyond immediate relief, by aligning humanitarian response activities in Maiduguri with longer-term development plans.
• Engage relevant State and Municipal-level authorities to ensure their active participation in the establishment of a city-level Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination Forum for Maiduguri:
• Work with relevant State and Municipal-level authorities in Maiduguri to develop the Terms of Reference for the city-level Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination Forum, ensuring that the forum is a practical and useful tool for coordinating city-level disaster preparedness and response in Maiduguri
• Support the relevant State and Municipal-level authorities in Maiduguri, leading where needed, to set up the logistics for the quarterly city-level Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination meetings, including establishing a venue; sending invitations; setting an agenda etc.
• Map relevant private sector, civil society, and International (UN; INGO) stakeholders, and engage with them to ensure their active participation in the quarterly city-level Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination Forum in Maiduguri
• Together with the relevant State and Municipal-level authorities, facilitate the holding of quarterly city-level Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination Forum meetings in Maiduguri
• Facilitate quarterly city-level Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination meetings, including through maintaining and sharing the minutes of meetings with all participants, and keeping accurate records of participants and discussions.
• Through the quarterly city-level Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination meetings, establish Area-Based disaster preparedness tools, including 5Ws and quarterly action plans. Ensure that these tools are developed in close coordination with the relevant State and Municipal-level authorities in Maiduguri, and are eventually handed over to and fully managed by, these relevant State and Municipal-level authorities
• Facilitate bi-monthly neighbourhood Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination meetings, including through maintaining and sharing the minutes of meetings with all participants, and keeping accurate records of participants and discussions.
• Establish and maintain neighbourhood-level 5Ws for service provision in the three target neighbourhoods
• Conduct thorough capacity and gap analyses of the State, Municipal, and Local level authorities with which the project will engage, to better understand where and how the project can support capacity strengthening for urban disaster preparedness and response in Maiduguri
• Support the Urban DRR Project Manager, as required, with the development of comprehensive training plans for stakeholder engaged with the project, based on capacity and gap analyses.
• Support the Urban DRR Project Manager as required, to meet internal and donor reporting requirements on the project

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• 3 - 4 years working experience in the related field
• High mapping skills, in map drafting and other map related skills
• High level of confidentiality, integrity, Professionalism, Mature, culturally sensitive, flexible, team player and interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationship with a range of people
• Experience of working under high pressure and ability to handle multiple priorities in an autonomous manner.
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Excellent written and spoken Kanuri, Hausa and English essential.
• Good written, oral communication and deliberating skills.
• Essential computer literacy(outlook, excel, power point and word)
• Previously experience with Senior Coordination and Liaison Officer Duties.

Desired Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of Nigerian displacement context
• Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and values
• Commitment to promoting gender equality.

We Offer

• Contract length: 1 Year (Project will run 2.5years)
• Level: D1.5 (national contract)
• Start Date: As soon as possible Desirable.