Project Officer at Centre for Social Cohesion Peace and Empowerment (CENSCOPE)

About CENSCOPE

The Centre for Social Cohesion, Peace and Empowerment (CENSCOPE) is a national non-profit organization duly registered with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Maiduguri, Borno State, CENSCOPE was founded in response to the humanitarian crisis resulting from armed conflict and natural disasters.

CENSCOPE is committed to promoting self-sustainability, equality, and social justice, with programmatic focus on peacebuilding, social cohesion, protection, gender equality and inclusion, livelihoods, education, WASH, climate change, health, and nutrition. The organization works in partnership with national and international stakeholders, including UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations, to deliver principled humanitarian assistance and support long-term development outcomes.

With Malala Fund support, it is running a three-year project to advance Gender-Responsive Education Budgeting (GREB) in Borno State; securing budget lines for the re-entry and retention of married, pregnant and parenting girls in education.

Role purpose

To serve as the core delivery engine of the project; leading day-to-day implementation of activities, field coordination, training facilitation and compliance follow-through across the seven target LGAs.

Key responsibilities

• Implement and coordinate project activities across assigned LGAs in line with the workplan.
• Facilitate trainings (government officials, budget monitors) and stakeholder engagements.
• Support baseline and monitoring data collection using survivor-centred, disability-inclusive methods.
• Coordinate field logistics and pre-mission security briefings with the Project Manager.
• Track activity-level compliance and route any incident reports through safeguarding channels.

Qualification & Specification

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in development, education, social sciences or a related field.
• 2–3 years' project implementation experience in humanitarian or development settings in Northeast Nigeria.
• Field experience in hard-to-reach or high-security LGAs; willingness to travel regularly.
• Hausa and/or Kanuri strongly preferred; proficiency in English.

Desirable

• Familiarity with digital data-collection tools (e.g. KoboToolbox / ODK).
• Experience in advocacy, budget monitoring or education programming.

Important Note:

• Safeguarding & equal opportunity CENSCOPE works with children and vulnerable people and is committed to safeguarding. 
• The successful candidate will sign CENSCOPE's Code of Conduct and complete mandatory PSEA and child-protection training, roles involving direct contact with children are subject to enhanced checks. 
• CENSCOPE is an equal-opportunity employer; qualified women, young women and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the organization reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the stated deadline once a suitable candidate is identified.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.