Jobs at INTERSOS

Job Purpose

• Under the supervision of the Cash Distribution Specialist (CDS), the Field Officer will lead the implementation of climate-resilient agricultural activities aimed at empowering female-headed households and families of malnourished children.
• This role ensures that beneficiaries can successfully establish micro-gardens to produce the nutritious ingredients needed for "Tom Brown" food supplements, thereby reducing dependency on external aid.

Responsibilties
Targeting and Beneficiary Selection:

• Identify and register eligible households, prioritizing female-headed households with children previously or currently enrolled in the nutrition program (MAM/SAM cases).
• Verify that targeted households meet the basic requirements for gardening, such as physical capacity and available land space.

Input Distribution and Oversight:

• Coordinate the one-time distribution of climate-resilient vegetable seeds and simple manual irrigation kits.
• Ensure all distributions are conducted in a safe, transparent, and accountable manner.

Technical Training and Mentorship:

• Provide technical training on small-scale sustainable gardening, including soil preparation, organic composting, and pest management.
• Conduct regular follow-up visits to provide on-site mentorship and ensure the correct use of irrigation tools and gardening techniques.

Integration and Coordination:

• Liaise with Mother-to-Mother and Father-to-Father support groups to integrate psycho-education on nutrition with practical gardening skills.
• Collaborate with the Nutrition Team to ensure the garden produce aligns with the ingredients needed for local "Tom Brown" production.

Monitoring and Reporting:

• Collect and maintain accurate records of distributions, training attendance, and garden progress.
• Contribute to Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) to assess the impact of agricultural support on household food stability.
• Identify and report risks such as pest outbreaks, security challenges, or climate-related issues that may affect crop yields.

Position Requirements
Qualifications and Requirements:

• Education: BSc / HND in Agriculture, Agronomy or a related field.
• Experience: At least 3 years of field experience in food security agricultural projects, preferably in an emergency or recovery context in Northern Nigeria.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in climate-resilient agricultural techniques suitable for the Northwest region.
• Experience with manual irrigation systems and micro-gardening.

Soft Skills:

• Strong community mobilization skills and ability to work with vulnerable female-headed households.
• Fluency in Hausa (essential) and English.
• Willingness to work in volatile security environments (Anka, Gusau, Maru).

Accountability:

• Adhere to INTERSOS and SV (donor) standards for transparency and accountability to affected populations.
• Promptly report any allegations of fraud, diversion, or misconduct through the established Complaint and Response Mechanism (CRM).

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General context of the project

• With over a decade of conflict, there have been devastating humanitarian consequences across North-East (Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe (BAY) states) and the North-West of Nigeria.
• According to the Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023, an estimated 8.3 million women, men, and children need some form of humanitarian and protection assistance.
• Over 2 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to persistent violence and remain internally displaced.
• Food insecurity and malnutrition are exacerbated by inflation, poverty, and restricted access due to insecurity, which impedes livelihood opportunities.
• Gender-based violence (GBV) has been a significant protection concern faced by IDP women and girls in the area.
• Numerous basic infrastructures, such as hospitals, clinics, and water supplies, are damaged, posing constraints on essential service provision.
• Epidemics like cholera arising from flooding and overcrowded settings put extra stress on the already vulnerable communities.

Responsibilties
Leadership:

• Develop the MHPSS Response framework and strategy for the mission in line with Mission Protection Strategy, the Global Protection Framework and the Global MHPSS guidelines
• Identify key mental health issues and contributing factors in the communities for both men and women, where we work using assessment tools and research
• Identify Community practices, assets, and structures that are conducive to the promotion of good mental health and ensure that our programming builds on these assets
• Develop Position papers on our MHPSS response outlining our community-based PSS response in alignment with culture and context
• Design Prevention and Mitigation measures for the mental health concerns identified for the children and adults in the community
• Work with INTERSOS Health teams to ensure continuum of care along the MHPSS pyramid
• Work with the CP /GBV Specialist / Protection Coordinator in designing interventions that support PSS that are integrated within our CP /GBV response
• Design Key messages for Awareness on MHPSS based on issues identified in the community and ensure teams are sensitized on it and able to deliver these messages in the community effectively
• Ensure Awareness materials on MHPSS are designed in culturally embedded practices and using traditional practices that the community uses to spread messages
• Ensure the latest developments in the field of MHPSS are shared with the Protection staff and contextualized for their use based on need
• Develop M & E tools for assessing distress among clients and for measuring the impact of our MHPSS services
• Ensure our MHPSS response is community based in line with the global CBP guidelines and MHPSS guidelines
• Regularly prepare and update service mapping in all our project locations to ensure support and follow-up for our clients

Coordination:

• Contribute to the design of the protection strategy of the mission and provide technical support and assistance for the implementation of the MHPSS activities through the proper tools and methodologies
• Design and revise MHPSS interventions and activities that are AGD sensitive and ensure AGD and context appropriateness in addressing CP, GBV and other protection issues
• Ensure that vulnerable/at risk individuals are promptly and safely identified and referred
• Draft and revise MHPSS SOPs
• Develop standard MEAL tools and indicators to measure the impact, effectiveness and quality of MHPSS interventions for children, adults and people with disabilities, and ensure the piloting and standardization of these tools. Increase and enhance MHPSS Program monitoring and evaluation, and determining impact
• Perform trends analysis on prevailing protection concerns in each mission location for tailored intervention
• Work with the CP and GBV specialists to strengthen PSS in case management providing guidance on identifying issues, empathy, session structure and referral
• Monitor progress on individual cases documented by the psychologists, maintaining strict protocols for confidentiality and consent
• Collaborate with Case Management and medical teams to ensure proper collaboration in referral procedures
• Lead, mentor, guide and monitor regularly the psychologist teams establishing standard processes and procedures for beneficiaries support and develop standard tools for measuring progress
• Design and develop a MHPSS Toolkit with appropriate resources and guidelines to provide structured and unstructured MHPSS for children and adults
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator support to contextualize and adapt internal and global guidelines, guarantying that are known by relevant staffs
• Ensure cohesion and harmonization of MHPSS activities, tools, guidelines and services across the different project strategy.
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, deliver training and workshops to protection staff to build skills on MHPSS topics. Develop training materials according to national policies and international standards
• Support the Protection Coordinator to deliver training and workshops to non-protection staff to build skills and knowledge of Staff Care, Mental Health, PFA and other topics relevant to all sectors
• Support the Protection Coordinator in developing and implementing a Staff Care System for the staff
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator assess MHPSS needs and gaps of target populations in current and future areas of operations. Analyze regularly the status of protection activities and inform the Program accordingly
• In line with the current protection strategy of the mission and in coordination with the Community based protection networks, design and develop a community-based approach to MHPSS
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, support in the development of a harmonized structure for group PSS, emotional support groups, awareness-raising and community outreach/engagement components across the mission.
• Contribute to the maintenance of an up-to-date service mapping of the service providers
• operating in the area and take proactive actions to remain informed about the available services for referral and coordination.
• Support the Protection Coordinator to ensure that protection data are collected, archived, processed, analyzed and disseminated in ethical modalities guaranteeing the confidentiality and the respect of internal data protection protocols. Maintain and update the MHPSS platforms for synchronization of data protection management and reporting
• Under the supervision of the Protection Coordinator, undertake regular field monitoring visits and provide tools to monitor the quality of Program implementation
• Provide technical support to the psychologists for individual cases affected by crisis, GBV survivors, child protection cases, etc.

Networking and partnerships:

• Maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant clusters and related working groups at national and/or field level and guarantee compliance to the eventual monthly cluster reporting requirements
• Represent INTERSOS in MHPSS in meetings and share best practices and lessons learnt
• Act as focal point in the protection cluster for the MHPSS technical working group
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, ensure that main MHPSS concerns are brought to relevant stakeholders to advocate respect of human rights and guarantee the minimum protection standards
• Network with MHPSS leaders of other missions and other organizations to share best practices and resources

Education & Professional Requirements
Education:

• University Degree in Social Science, Psychology, Social Work, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law or other fields related to social development and humanitarian work
• Preferable master’s degree in a related field.

Professional experience:

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant working experience in protection-related sectors (MHPSS included), preferably within an INGO, and two years for higher education degree (Masters)
• Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and supervising MHPSS programmes, including community-based approaches.
• Experience working with vulnerable populations including GBV survivors, and children at risk.

Professional requirements:

• Computer literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, INTERSOS MHPSS Platform is a plus)
• Strong theoretical, technical and practical knowledge of MHPSS including global standards and guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to work in humanitarian context (experience with IDPs is an asset)
• Proven experience in developing MHPSS strategies, frameworks, and tools aligned with global protection and MHPSS frameworks
• Demonstrated capacity to supervise, mentor, and build the capacity of technical staff (e.g., psychologists, case workers).
• Very good understanding of protection, human rights law and international humanitarian rights and principles
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills on protection and human rights
• Experience in proposal writing is an asset.

Personal requirements:

• Demonstrated capacity to supervise, mentor, and build the capacity of technical staff (e.g., psychologists, case workers).
• Very good understanding of protection, human rights law and international humanitarian rights and principles
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills on protection and human rights
• Experience in proposal writing is an asset.

Languages:

• Proficiency in English (written and spoken)
• Knowledge and fluency in English and local languages (Hausa and Kanuri) will be an asset.

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Main Purpose

• Under the supervision of the MEAL Manager and according to the organisational standards, develop MEAL Framework for each project, guarantee proper data collection and conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis and reporting, ensuring accountability and efficiency of the established data collection system and of the related findings and results.

Responsibilities
Tasks:

• Contribute to the development and update of MEAL Framework for programmes and projects, following INTERSOS guidance and standards, and ensure the roll out at base level
• Support needs assessments and service mapping in the context of strategic development and project design
• Provide support to the Information Management Officer in the development of qualitative and quantitative data collection tools, systems and DB for the correct monitoring and evaluation of the projects for internal and external use, in line with donors’ requirements and INTERSOS standard approach
• Update internal and external DB on a weekly and monthly basis
• Collect regularly and systematise the data maintaining an accurate DB. Process analysis of compiled and aggregated data and produce quantitative and qualitative reports and matrixes as per operational needs. Monitor and review regularly the sources of information
• Process and aggregate internal and external qualitative and quantitative data on weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly basis (as agreed and necessary) and analyse trend through data, statistics, graphics and tables
• Check data received from the IMO for internal or external sharing. Provide data to staffs to assist in decision-making and advocacy activities
• Prepare consolidated reports of program and project progress of activities against targets including achievements, challenges, recommendations and lessons learned.
• In coordination with the MEAL Manager, support the mission’s SMT in guaranteeing compliance with the organisation’s Data Protection SOPs
• Support the MEAL Manager in responding to periodic donors and internal requests with the additional information on activity performance and results
• Conduct training to field staff on reporting and analysis skills and MEAL related topics.
• Is responsible for checking and case auditing documents and forms to collect sensitive data according to data protection SOPs. Support auditing exercises as requested by MEAL Manager
• Support the proper implementation of feedback mechanisms throughout the project’s phases
• Contribute to the revision of monitoring and evaluation tools and train program team on design and proper use of it
• Conduct regular technical field visits to projects locations to monitor the implementation of ongoing programmes and present processed data
• Support in evaluation exercises, both internal and external, as requested by the MEAL Manager
• Participate in sectoral meetings and trainings organised internally or externally representing INTERSOS, in coordination with the MEAL Manager
• Perform any other tasks as requested by the direct supervisor

Position Requirements
Education & Professional Requirements:

• Essential Degree in Statistics, Information Management, Social Science, Demography, Social studies or any related field
• Minimum of two years relevant work experience in the humanitarian sector
• Experience in design and implementation of M&E systems, methods and approaches, as well as in data and information analysis
• Essential computer literacy
• Communication and reporting skills
• Organisational skills and ability to manage efficiently multiple priorities, deadlines and tasks
• Excellent time management skills and resourcefulness
• Attention to details
• Teamwork and cooperation
• Service orientation
• Confidentiality
• Commitment to INTERSOS principles
• English Language.