State Coordinator Officers at Mines Advisory Group (MAG International)

MAG’s Vision: A safe and secure future for men, women and children affected by armed violence and conflict.

MAG’s Mission: MAG saves lives and builds futures by working with others to reclaim land contaminated with the debris of conflict, to reduce the daily risk of death or injury for civilians, and to create safe and secure conditions for development.

Overview of role:

The State Coordinator will provide management and coordination to all partner activities and lead on community Liaison activities across Katsina and Benue States.  The state coordinators will provide a consistent approach to community liaison and risk education that is in conformance with MAG Nigeria SOPs and guidelines, MAG global policies and in compliance with international standards.  S/he shall also ensure that the reporting and management structures are reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure maximum effectiveness and programme consistency. S/he will work closely with the Community Liaison Manager and Local Partners to ensure that community activities are of a high standard, innovative and well-integrated within all MAG operations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support and advice to the local partner and stakeholder regarding current and future WAM activities and tasks for in the respective sates State.
• Provides guidance to local teams through the management of the WAM activities.
• Support implementation of new program activities and development of community level activities with local partners in new program areas.
• Conduct regular M&E of Community Level activities and ensure that recommendations from monitoring visits are acted upon
• Provides support to MAG’s Community Focal Points
• Deliver relevant community level trainings to community educators
• Provide support to partners and participate in the recruitment of community educators 
• Support the planning, collection and sharing of case studies
• Support MAG during joint assessments with NGOs that require community level input
• Support design and implementation of WAM activities in their respective states as required
• Ensure information/requests circulated from the CLM are responded to and/or circulated to the relevant field teams .

Qualifications, Experience and Attributes

• University Degree in the field of Sociology, Education or any other related area
• of Experience in overseeing and managing field-based staff and supporting work planning processes
• Experience of data gathering, management and analysis including the development of data gathering mechanisms and tools
• Experience of working with rural communities from a variety of different ethnic groups.
• Good communication and team work skills
• Computer literacy
• Knowledge of local language in Katsina or Benue and  English language skills.

Essential requirements:

• Previous experience of using participatory techniques to gather information in at-risk communities
• Previous experience of carrying out community-based education activities or similar
• Experience of data gathering, management and analysis including the development of data gathering mechanisms and tools
• Experience of working with rural communities from a variety of different ethnic groups.
• Good communication and team work skills
• Computer literacy
• Knowledge of local language in Katsina or Benue and English language skills