Targeting and Verification Officer at Salient Humanitarian Organization (SHO)

General context of the Job / Project

• The candidates selected will work as a core team to carry out beneficiary profiling exercise, which aims to update and refine the list of households and beneficiaries in IDP camps and host community locations through a verification process to account for births and deaths of beneficiary household members, to remove non-valid SCOPE card records, and to account for people who may have left the camps or host communities.
• The Targeting Officer will technically be supervised and supported by the Project coordinator.

Task and Responsibilities

• Participated in community-based preliminary registration, possibly going "door to door" in households, regarding urban areas.
• Form a committee for community registration or targeting and make sure its members are decent representatives of the neighborhood
• Classify households according to their level of vulnerability and ensure that food assistance is targeted to households based on their vulnerability
• Create a community registration/targeting committee to set primary, secondary, and excluding criteria depending on the village context.
• Ensure all the processes are dully recorded and publicly announced to all households within the community
• Training of community targeting committee on how to use targeting criteria.
• Provide the registration format/forms to establish the draft registration master list
• Conducts work with the highest level of integrity
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Project Coordinator.

Essential knowledge and skills

• University Degree in Food Security or Agriculture, Social Science, Economics, Social Works related discipline and at least two years of professional experience in food and cash assistance interventions.
• Prior expertise in targeting and registration activities.
• Understanding local dialects English, Kanuri, Shuwa and Hausa.

Preferred experience:

• Experience in working in Borno State
• evidence of prior work with communities in humanitarian or development contexts for a minimum of Five years.
• Previous experience with GFD, BSFP and Cash Programming for registration actiivties.
• The ability and desire to frequently go to the operating fields of SHO.
• Very good interpersonal skills, particularly in networking, working with communities, local civil society and local authorities.
• Previous experience in using and adapting community-led approaches.
• Proven analytical skills.
• The ability to work under pressure
• Excellent computer knowledge and skills of using Microsoft word, power point and excel.
• Strong organizational and time management skills and capacity to coordinate work across multiple departments.

Brief Condition:

• Salient reserves the right to close the application before deadline, if the required number of candidates is attained.
• Candidates will be responsible for his/her own travel, accommodation and feeding during the recruitment process.