Cash Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Duty Station:      Maiduguri, Borno State

Position Overview:
Cash Officer will directly report to Cash Deputy Program Manager and will play a key role in implementing the PROTECT IDP response in North-Eastern Nigeria. From 2015 to 2017, 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.

Specific Objectives: 

• Provide support to the Cash 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:
 Bachelors Degree or Higher Diploma in Accountancy and food security related field e.g. Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies etc.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 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, Kanuri and English.
• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

•  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, SIDA).
• 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.