Jobs at Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)

General Objective

• The Finance Officer supports the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager (FPCM) in ensuring effective financial management, donor compliance, and partner capacity strengthening in line with PUI and donor requirements.
• The role provides technical support to partners, ensures accurate reporting and follow-up, and contributes to building strong financial collaboration across the consortium.

Responsibilities and Tasks
Objective 1: Finance Pre-contractual Partnership Responsibilities:

• Represent FPCM in populating the finance chapters of the partners Due Diligences and other related information.
• Support partners during the proposal stage in coordination with the FPCM.
• Support the FPCM in the production of the Sub Agreement, as well as the related amendment and ensure the accuracy of the financial information.

Objective 2: Liaison with Consortium and Partners:

• Support the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager (FPCM) in conducting partners’ spot checks (selection of accountancy documents, verification, drafting of feedback).
• Assist in collecting accurate information and ensuring partners follow audit requirements, under the guidance of the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager, in coordination with the audit focal point at mission level.
• Prepare draft monthly financial reports for review by the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager, with recommendations for partners where necessary.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of administrative and financial policies and practices when applicable.
• Support the organization of finance coordination working group meetings with partners, as well as kick-off and closing-out meetings.
• Participate in regular meetings with partners to support budget building, budget follow-up, reporting, financial problem solving, and planning. Field travel may be required for face-to-face meetings with partners.
• Ensure smooth communication flow regarding all fiscal documents and centralized information at Coordination level.
• Support the preparation of financial reporting templates for partners and follow up with reminders on reporting deadlines for all consortium members.

Objective 3: Capacity Building:

• Identify financial capacity support needs of partners and communicate these to the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager.
• Assist in developing capacity-building plans with partners’ finance teams, in collaboration with the Grants and Partnership Manager.
• Support the roll-out of existing PUI financial training tools and contribute to the development of new tools where needed.
• Support in facilitating training sessions for partners.
• Monitor and report on the evolution of partners’ financial capacity.

Objective 4: Departmental Priorities:

• Act as financial focal point for partners during pre- and post-official partnership or consortium stages, under the guidance of the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager.
• Ensure partner compliance with PUI financial procedures, donor requirements, and Nigerian laws.
• Support the monitoring of internal and donor deadlines, ensuring timely submission of financial reports.
• Contribute to qualitative financial follow-up of partners and consolidated consortium budget.
• Support the development and implementation of financial capacity-building activities for partners.

Objective 5: Fiscal Legislation Support:

• Assist in gathering information on fiscal legislation (taxes, customs duties, VAT, taxes on leasing contracts, annual declarations, etc.) and transmit it to the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager and other concerned staff.
• Maintain updated knowledge of relevant national legislation and ensure dissemination to partners when applicable.
• Support FPCM in the development of PUI new budgets as well as NCE/MR/Top Up related to consortium (check, production and consolidation of BoQ, budget structures, budget narrative);
• Is responsible for checking and consolidating the partners’ budgets and supporting documentation.
• In close support to Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager, ensures that any costs strictly related to the proposed programs are covered,
• Assist in providing the internal and external auditor with financial documents and information for audit purposes.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor`s / Master`s Degree with 3 - 10 years work experience. 

Salary
N663,780 monthly.

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Job Summary

• The MEAL Officer will support the design, implementation, and management of a comprehensive MEAL system to track project performance, ensure accountability to affected populations, and facilitate learning across GBV, SRH, and livelihood components of the project.
• The role will ensure data quality, provide timely analysis for adaptive management, and strengthen feedback and complaints mechanisms while working closely with partners funded by FCDO.

Key Responsibilities
Monitoring and Evaluation:

• He/she will be responsible for transforming simple financial transaction into a rich learning opportunity for both the NORCAP and PUI. This would greatly benefit both organizations as it would be a bridge which fosters cross learning.
• Support in developing and implementing the project-specific MEAL plans, tools, and frameworks aligned with donor and organizational standards.
• Support baseline, midline, and endline assessments, ensuring disaggregated data collection (by age, gender, disability, etc.).
• Supporting the tracking of project indicators, and reporting of indicators by partners.
• Provide the formative validation of data needed for day-to-day adaptive management.
• Ensure quality, timely, and accurate data collection across GBV case management, SRH service delivery, and livelihood activities.
• Conduct regular field monitoring visits to assess project implementation, beneficiary satisfaction, and adherence to safeguarding standards.
• Ensure data meeting all quality standard through validation and verification.
• Manage data entry, cleaning, and validation in organizational databases (e.g., CommCare, Kobo, Control Panels).

Accountability:

• The MEAL Officer will be one of the primary points of contact for ensuring accountability to local partners. He/she will collaboratively establish and manage a systematic partner feedback mechanism, ensuring that the voices and perspectives of local NGOs directly inform program adjustments.
• Ensure GBV-sensitive handling of complaints and referrals in line with the survivor-centered approach.
• Train project staff and community focal points on accountability principles and complaint handling procedures.
• Ensure channels are accessible to beneficiaries.
• Produce fact sheet of all feedback received with a given period of time.
• Follow up on feedback to ensure loops are close withing a reasonable amount of time.

Learning and Reporting:

• He/she will be responsible for generating Real-Time Learning and Adaptive Management. The officer will ensure a cross learning between PUI and NORCAP; cross learning on capacity strengthening approaches.
• Support in facilitating regular pause-and-reflect sessions with the project team and partners.
• Conduct data analysis and prepare timely MEAL reports, dashboards, and presentations to inform project decision-making.
• He/She will be responsible for verification and learning, he/she would in collaboration with NORCAP MEAL conduct field visits to verify results reported by NORCAP and, document the challenges, successes, and lessons learned from the seed grant implementation.
• Document lessons learned, promising practices, and case studies to inform program improvement and advocacy.
• Facilitate regular project review and reflection meetings with program and technical teams.
• Contribute to donor reporting by providing evidence-based data and outcome-level analysis.

Capacity Strengthening:

• Train and mentor project staff, community volunteers, and partners on MEAL approaches, data collection, and reporting tools.
• Build capacity on gender-sensitive and survivor-centered monitoring approaches.

Coordination:

• Liaise with MEAL colleagues, technical leads (GBV, SRH, Livelihoods), and external partners to ensure harmonization of indicators and reporting.
• Represent MEAL in inter-agency and sectoral coordination meetings as required.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree with 3 - 5 years of experience.

Salary
N472,044 Monthly.