Food Security and Livelihood Deputy Program Manager at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Duty Station:     Maiduguri, Borno State

Position Overview:

• The Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Deputy Program Manager will primarily be responsible for managing and implementing the SIDA funded Project in North-Eastern Nigeria, and will Emergency Assistance for Affected Populations in Borno state, North Eastern Nigeria, 2016-2017. Through early recovery CfW IGA and seed Voucer activities to vulnerable IDP and host community households in order to improve nutrition security and assist livelihoods recovery in Northern Nigeria.
• Specific Objectives: 
• Provide support to the Emergency Program Manager (EPM) in implementing the FFP program.
• Manage the field team within food security & livelihoods sub sector to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence in all FSL interventions.
• Ensure tracking and reporting of technical activities under food security & livelihood subsector.
• Participate in regular internal and external coordination for the program at LGA level and at state level when required.
• Identify program implementation modalities that enhance partnership & coordination with government official and local communities, internal integration within sectors and other programs (Nutrition, WASH, NFIs, etc.)
• Assist the Multi-Sectorial PM in the development of project procurement and work plans of the FSL gardening component of the program.
• Facilitate and support systematic monitoring and evaluation of activities.

Qualifications:

• 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.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods 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 missi

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)
• Previous experience with ACF.
• Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
• Fluency in Hausa or Kanuri.