Current Job Openings at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Key responsibilities:

• Participate with M&E team in supervision of data collection for nutrition and health assessments;
• Liaise with Nutrition Assistants for accessing community support group and health facility database on a regular basis and updating overall health facility based activities;
• Conduct ongoing capacity assessment of health workers on CMAM services delivery, IMCI service delivery, reproductive health service delivery, vaccination etc. and review the training needs and/or coaching needs; 
• Ensure that all health facilities/sites have adequate supplies to delivery uninterrupted health care services through identifying needs, informing line manager on regular basis;
• Support the Nutrition Programme Manager in organizing LGA based coordination meeting;
• Prepare individual monthly action plan in reference to work plan and share with the Nutrition Programme Manager in regular monthly planning meeting with nutrition teams led by the Nutrition Programme Manager;
• Ensure that all children and patients visiting ACF supported facilities are properly examined and treated according to national nutritional protocols and standards;
• Identify financial requirements, logistic needs, HR support in reference to work plan and inform the NPM to prepare budget forecast. 
• Ensure availability of essential nutrition supplies in assigned health facilities including data tools;
• Develop monthly monitoring and supervision plan for the LGA and share with the Nutrition and Programme Manager;
• Ensure that specific monitoring finding is reported to the Nutrition Programme Manager with potential solutions;
• Regularly follow up with the teams on the progress of activity, challenges and guide on necessary actions;
• Share training plans with identified needs to the PM well in advance to facilitate support from HR/Admin/Logistics;
• Track Supervisee’s daily attendance, validate monthly attendance for supervisee, and submit it on a timely basis to HR;
• Maintain and update database for health workers, community health workers/volunteers, trainings and share with line manager;
• Prepare consolidated tracking tool for supportive supervision visits/on-job coaching sessions and share with line manager;
• Update LGA work plans, individual work plans and share with line manager;
• Use appropriate attendance sheet on-job coaching sessions, workshops/meetings and trainings and share a copy with line manager;
• Use specific supervision checklist during supervision visits and archive filled supervision checklists with summary report – every month;
• Fill the health evolution reports every month for the LGA and share it with line manager for consolidation.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Nursing, Public Heath, Food Science/Technology or other relevant qualifications with experience in Public Health and CMAM programming;
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in nutrition programming;
• An excellent report-writing skill is required including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Hausa;
• Good communication and Interpersonal skills;
• Team management experience with similar programs;
• Ability to observe and to provide feedback on the activities;
• Ability to manage staff according to local culture and organization policies.

The deadline for this position is Tuesday, 21st August 2023.

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Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with the various internal stakeholder to coordinate the implementation of all mandatory trainings such as Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Basic Security Training, Action Against Hunger Induction training, Code of Conduct training, etc;
• Implement the various training resources available at Action Against Hunger - SpeC (Specialized course) training courses, Talent Bridge (ACF’s e-learning platform), security trainings, etc;
• In liaison with the Safety and Security Coordinator, coordinate the implementation of all security trainings, both internal and external, in the mission;
• Initiate coaching and mentoring schemes at the mission level to enhance the learning and development of staff and foster a learning culture;
• Implement the various learning methods at Action Against Hunger (e.g. onsite trainings, online training courses, communities of practice, learning webinar series, coaching and mentoring schemes, job shadowing, secondment, group work, etc);
• Act as the focal point for coordinating workshops (both at the mission and HQ level) and training events;
• Establish professional relations with all departmental heads and managers to gain an understanding of their ways of working and ensure that their learning and development needs are met;
• Ensure that training documents are produced, maintained and available for the concerned departments and effectively used;
• Encourage employees to make the most of learning and development opportunities;
• Collect collective trainings needs that cut across several departments or within a single department through Heads of Department and managers;
• Collect individual training needs identified during the annual appraisals;
• Consolidate the individual and collective needs and create an annual training plan for the mission;
• Create the budget for the training needs identified in the training plan;
• Liaise with the Country Director to approve and validate the training plan;
• Define whether the training can be done internally or externally: check which training interventions can be handled internally including at the headquarters level and identify external training providers relevant to ACF programs and strategy;
• Evaluate and assess the impact of training courses and programs;
• Establish the guidelines and templates for performance appraisal and train managers and employees on how to use them;
• Create an annual performance management calendar for the mission;
• Sensitize managers and employees on their roles and responsibilities in the performance management process;
• Ensure that all employees develop their Individual Action Plan at the beginning of the year/project that defines their performance and development objectives;
• Ensure that all new joiners and employees in new positions have a probationary action plan at the beginning of the contract and a probationary appraisal at the end of the period;
• Prepare an annual report on Performance Management capturing the feedback from both staff and managers and feeding into the staff learning and development;
• Support the HRHOD to analyze the annual appraisal results, consolidate, and arbitrate between the different requests (trainings, individual progression, professional development);
• Submit monthly and annual training reports to the HRHOD including the training evaluation and impact assessment;
• Develop and maintain a training database containing all training information conducted in the mission;
• Submit an annual report on performance management.

Position Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business Psychology, Business Management, or a closely related field;
• 3 to 4 years experience in training, employee development, leadership and organization development;
• Proven work experience as a Training Manager is an added advantage;
• Track record in designing and executing successful training programs;
• Familiarity with traditional and modern learning methods (mentoring, coaching, on-the-job or in-classroom training, e-learning, workshops, simulations etc);
• Excellent communication and leadership skills;
• Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively;
• Ability to write reports and produce training manuals;
• Good computer and database skills;
• Excellent communication, planning and negotiation skills;
• Trainer of trainers qualified;
• Fluency in one or more national/regional languages is an asset.

The deadline for this position is Tuesday, 22nd August 2023.