MEAL Assistant - Conflict Prevention and Peace-building at Intercommunity Development Social Organization (IDS)

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Primary Responsibilities
Technical Support-Related Functions:

• Support in the design and implementation of an M&E plan for Peacebuilding programme.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the context and responses amongst CSO’s and governmental policy.
• Run regular review meetings with the community of Peacebuilders and partner organisations and ensure partners are producing regular and high-quality activity reports assist the partners and Peacebuilders in helping them to identify the changes that have occurred as a result of their work.
• Take part in wider team review meetings, including contributing outcomes and indicators of impact from the Community of Peacebuilders.
• Provide support to MERL Officer(s) in assessing extent to which partners’ initiatives are achieving the set results, writing and filing of reports.
• Together with the MERL team, develop indicators and protocols for monitoring progress in implementation of program interventions and capacity building initiatives and generate the necessary progress reports.
• In liaison with the Program Manager, assist in tracking and reporting progression for partners and the program.
• Participate in and contribute to quarterly and other scheduled program performance review meetings.
• Participate actively in contributing to documentation of “success stories” and other anecdotal information to enhance the overall quality of performance reports to the donors.
• Share information and lessons learnt with other program staff through among others, writing of brief occasional papers for uploading into the website and internal seminars.
• Assist in preparing monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, annual and final program narrative reports.

Project Design and Development:

• Organizing programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization.
• Developing new programs to support the strategic direction of the organization.
• Creating and managing long-term goals.
• Developing a budget and operating plan for the program.
• Developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement.
• Writing program funding proposals to guarantee uninterrupted delivery of services.
• Managing a team with a diverse array of talents and responsibilities.
• Ensuring goals are met in areas including customer satisfaction, safety, quality, and team member performance.
• Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved.
• Meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services.
• Producing accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.
• Analyzing program risks.
• Working on strategy with the marketing team.

Capacity Development:

• Provide technical guidance and support to the Capacity Development team on advocacy issues.
• Provide leadership in training and delivery CPP training for IDS Partners/sub grantees.
• Provide leadership in mentoring and coaching for partners through accompaniment and quarterly site visits.
• Liaise with the Program Manager in ensuring all advocacy capacity development needs for the partners are addressed.
• Prepare training materials and modules to respond to the CPP training areas identified.

Networking and Representation:

• Establish and maintain regular contact with partner organizations, and to liaise and co-ordinate with the appropriate government bodies whenever appropriate to ensure successful project progress.
• Negotiate collaboration with partner institutions and government departments in support of IDS and the project activities subject to approval from the supervisor.
• Liaise and maintain contacts with government agencies and line ministries, civil societies and private sector collaborators.

Resource Mobilization:

• Contribute to the development of IDS fund-raising strategy and annual fundraising plan.
• Participate in researching funding sources and donor trends to help position IDS ahead of major funding changes or trends.
• Contribute in development of proposals for fundraising.

Management and Implementation:

• Plan and manage the implementation of CPP works in camps and host communities and prioritized Conflict extremism activities in full consultation and co-ordination with relevant IDS staff and other agencies both governmental and non-governmental.
• Organize, with the logistics and finance departments materials and support needed for all field activities.
• Through capacity building and on-site skills transfer, build a technical team that is multi-skilled, flexible and has capacity to work autonomously. Design and develop appropriate supervisory, monitoring and evaluation systems for construction projects;
• Ensure that performance objective for CPP Assistants is set and staffs are appraised as per IDS policies and procedures;
• Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)
• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within IDS and amongst beneficiaries served by IDS.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout IDS
• As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of IDS and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

Information and Co-ordination:

• Provide regular updates to supervisor and team on progress, priorities and constraints – verbally and in writing.
• Represent IDS to private, governmental and non-governmental groups as and when needed.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills
Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Conflict Studies, International Relations or any other related field. A Post graduate degree will be an added advantage.

Professional Qualifications:

• Professional training in Project Development Cycle or related fields.

Relevant Experience:

• At least 3 years’ relevant work experience in working with civil society organizations involved in advocacy for good governance, peace building and conflict management and/or natural resources management.

Essential Competencies:

• Demonstrated interest in development work.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and report writing skills.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a team player in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
• Result-oriented.
• Willingness to travel frequently.

Complexity and Difficulty of the Work:

• A demanding job that requires tolerance, community knowledge, project area and local political dynamics.