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  • Posted: Jun 17, 2023
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    Since 1979, we have helped people grappling with the toughest hardships survive - and then thrive. That’s the heart of our approach: We help communities turn crisis into opportunity. Throughout our history, Mercy Corps has demonstrated innovation, timeliness and the ability to adapt quickly to changing realities.
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    Agriculture and Livestock Program Officer - Gwoza

    General Position Summary

    The Agriculture/ Livestock Program Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of Arable Crop Production, backyard permagardening and Livestock production activities. He/ She will work closely with the Senior Agriculture/Livestock officer, Agriculture Coordinator, Nutrition and Food Security team, MEL team, and operations staff (including finance and operations) to ensure that activities are implemented according to schedule, budget and required quality.

    Essential Job Responsibilities

    STRATEGY & VISION

    • Collaborate with other team members for effective integration between other services like Food assistance, MPCA and Nutrition services.
    • Collaborate with Local authorities and other partners to harmonize different efforts for better impact and sustainability.
    • Able to learn and update his/ her information or knowledge to adapt to the changing situation and context.

    PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

    • Train targeted beneficiaries on best agronomy practices, climate-smart agriculture and Livestock production through formal training, on-job mentorship and supportive supervision.
    • Identify any gaps or capacity needs within the team and ensure training and capacity building is incorporated into program planning.
    • Coordinate and or supervise community mobilization and sensitization activities on agriculture.
    • Participate in planned agriculture and food production assessments/ surveys.
    • Participate in periodic program monitoring and evaluation activities including baselines, end lines, midterm reviews, lesson learning exercises and compilation of success stories.
    • Closely collaborate with other sector teams to ensure an integrated approach internally with MC sectors and externally with complementary activities implemented by other program actors.
    • Actively participate in area-level agriculture, food security and livelihood sector meetings.
    • Identify, build, and manage collaborative partnerships with communities, local authorities and other stakeholders to create an enabling environment and ownership.
    • Ensure timely submission of quality weekly and monthly activity reports.
    • Serve as technical focal person for all field-level engagements.

    TEAM MANAGEMENT

    • Identify technical gaps among staff line managed and in liaison with the line manager provide on-the-job training and/ support supervision.
    • Participate in developing a detailed project implementation plan and orient the line managed on agreed actions.

    FINANCE & COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

    • Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations related to emergency programming.

    INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION

    • Train and support Village Agents and Agriculture Extension Workers and make sure they transmit/convey messages clearly to targeted participants.
    • Creates and maintains the relationship with local Agriculture, Nutrition and other authorities to link services with the existing LGA structure smoothly,
    • Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps.

    Security

    • Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
    • Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

    Organizational Learning

    • As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

    Accountability to Beneficiaries

    • Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engagin

    Knowledge and Experience

    • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in agriculture or other related field, a relevant master’s degree is a plus.
    • Minimum of 3 years of experience focused on agriculture extension including community mobilization, participatory planning, and rural/community development.
    • Prior experience implementing agriculture or livestock support programs is essential, preferably in conflict settings.
    • Familiarity with the intervention areas.
    • Knowledge of Agriculture assessments and or surveys is a plus.
    • Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
    • excellent analytical, written, and oral communication skills.
    • Willing and able to be based within remote areas, where services are limited.
    • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team, including cross-cultural teams.
    • Fluency in Hausa, Kanuri, English and or Marghi.

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    Agriculture and Livestock Program Officer - Dikwa

    General Position Summary

    The Agriculture/ Livestock Program Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of Arable Crop Production, backyard permagardening and Livestock production activities. He/ She will work closely with the Senior Agriculture/Livestock officer, Agriculture Coordinator, Nutrition and Food Security team, MEL team, and operations staff (including finance and operations) to ensure that activities are implemented according to schedule, budget and required quality.

    Essential Job Responsibilities

    STRATEGY & VISION

    • Collaborate with other team members for effective integration between other services like Food assistance, MPCA and Nutrition services.
    • Collaborate with Local authorities and other partners to harmonize different efforts for better impact and sustainability.
    • Able to learn and update his/ her information or knowledge to adapt to the changing situation and context.

    PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

    • Train targeted beneficiaries on best agronomy practices, climate-smart agriculture and Livestock production through formal training, on-job mentorship and supportive supervision.
    • Identify any gaps or capacity needs within the team and ensure training and capacity building is incorporated into program planning.
    • Coordinate and or supervise community mobilization and sensitization activities on agriculture.
    • Participate in planned agriculture and food production assessments/ surveys.
    • Participate in periodic program monitoring and evaluation activities including baselines, end lines, midterm reviews, lesson learning exercises and compilation of success stories.
    • Closely collaborate with other sector teams to ensure an integrated approach internally with MC sectors and externally with complementary activities implemented by other program actors.
    • Actively participate in area-level agriculture, food security and livelihood sector meetings.
    • Identify, build, and manage collaborative partnerships with communities, local authorities and other stakeholders to create an enabling environment and ownership.
    • Ensure timely submission of quality weekly and monthly activity reports.
    • Serve as technical focal person for all field-level engagements.

    TEAM MANAGEMENT

    • Identify technical gaps among staff line managed and in liaison with the line manager provide on-the-job training and/ support supervision.
    • Participate in developing a detailed project implementation plan and orient the line managed on agreed actions.

    FINANCE & COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

    • Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations related to emergency programming.

    INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION

    • Train and support Village Agents and Agriculture Extension Workers and make sure they transmit/convey messages clearly to targeted participants.
    • Creates and maintains the relationship with local Agriculture, Nutrition and other authorities to link services with the existing LGA structure smoothly,
    • Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps.

    Security

    • Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
    • Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

    Organizational Learning

    • As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

    Accountability to Beneficiaries

    • Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engagin

    Knowledge and Experience

    • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in agriculture or other related field, a relevant master’s degree is a plus.
    • Minimum of 3 years of experience focused on agriculture extension including community mobilization, participatory planning, and rural/community development.
    • Prior experience implementing agriculture or livestock support programs is essential, preferably in conflict settings.
    • Familiarity with the intervention areas.
    • Knowledge of Agriculture assessments and or surveys is a plus.
    • Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
    • excellent analytical, written, and oral communication skills.
    • Willing and able to be based within remote areas, where services are limited.
    • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team, including cross-cultural teams.
    • Fluency in Hausa, Kanuri, English and or Marghi.

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    Agriculture and Livestock Senior Program Officer

    General Position Summary

    The Senior Program Officer – Agriculture & Livestock provides field-level managerial and technical oversight to the day-to-day implementation, coordination, supervision and provision of technical support including capacity building to the program team, He/She will work closely both with management and support staff (including finance, operation, MEL, CARM, Protection and program) in Gwoza, Dikwa, Damboa and Maiduguri to ensure the day to day activities are implemented according to schedule, budget and required quality.

    Essential Job Responsibilities

    STRATEGY & VISION

    • Collaborate with other team members for effective integration between other services like Food assistance, MPCA and Nutrition services.
    • Collaborate with Local authorities and other partners to harmonize different efforts for better impact and sustainability.
    • Able to learn and update his/ her information or knowledge to adapt to the changing situation and context.

    PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

    • Manage the Livestock and agriculture activities implemented in assigned LGAs and ensure that staff are effectively engaged in their tasks.
    • Train targeted beneficiaries on Permgardening methods & / climate-smart agriculture and Livestock production through formal training, on-job mentorship and supportive supervision to ensure that it is adopted and practised during the dry and wet seasons.
    • Supervise day-to-day field-level implementation of planned Livestock / agricultural activities i.e. distribution of Small ruminants, Arable crops, Kitchen gardening and backyard poultry farming.
    • Coordinate and or supervise community mobilization and Agriculture and Livestock activities that promote increased consumption of nutritious diets.
    • Ensure that beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to established vulnerability criteria.
    • Raise procurement requests to initiate procurement process following MC policy and periodically evaluate and update project procurement and supply needs.
    • Draft monthly financial forecast and quarterly financial need forecast in line with the detailed project activity plan / Monthly activity plans and send it to Program Manager
    • Consolidate and submit quality Livestock and agriculture and related activity reports (including success stories and lessons learned reports).
    • Closely collaborate with other sector teams at the field level to ensure an integrated Agriculture approach internally with MC sectors and externally with complementary activities implemented by other nutrition actors.
    • Discuss and follow up on any technical problems related to agriculture and livestock programming and brainstorm solutions.
    • Ensure sound monitoring and joint supervision of program activities in close collaboration with the LGA Agriculture and Livestock Office.
    • Actively participate in area-level Agriculture and Livelihoods and food security sector meetings.
    • Serve as technical focal person for all field-level engagements.

    TEAM MANAGEMENT

    • Track project teams’ daily attendance and validate monthly attendance for supervisees.
    • Communicate with HR for necessary staff meetings, performance reviews, appraisals.
    • Work with the team to develop a detailed project implementation plan and orient the project teams on their roles and responsibilities
    • Identify specific technical gaps in project implementation teams and in liaison with the Technical Advisor organize internal training for them.
    • Organize LGA-level weekly nutrition team meetings and provide feedback on improvements, gaps and standardization of the service provision and reporting.

    FINANCE & COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

    • Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations related to emergency programming.

    INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION

    • Train and support Village Agents and Agriculture Extension Workers and make sure they transmit/convey messages clearly to targeted participants.
    • Creates and maintains the relationship with local Agriculture, Nutrition and other authorities to link services with the existing LGA structure smoothly,
    • Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps.

    Security

    • Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
    • Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

    Organizational Learning

    • As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

    Accountability to Beneficiaries

    • Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

    Knowledge and Experience

    • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in agriculture or other related fields, a relevant master’s degree is a plus.
    • Minimum (4) years experience in nutrition-sensitive agriculture, Livestock programming and/or food security and livelihood programming, policy or research, with 2 years experience in a resource-challenged setting. Substantial hands-on experience in social and Behaviour change programming is required.
    • Familiarity with the intervention areas.
    • Knowledge of Agriculture and Livestock assessments and or surveys is a plus.
    • Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
    • Excellent analytical, written and oral communication skills.
    • Willing and able to be based within remote areas, where services are limited.
    • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team, including cross-cultural teams.
    • Fluency in Hausa, Kanuri, English and or Marghi

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    MEL Manager

    General Position Summary

    The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager is a key member of the Program Performance and Quality (PAQ) Unit and will be responsible for managing and coordinating all MEL and program quality performance processes for Mercy Corps Nigeria’s Humanitarian programs. S/he will work across all Northeast programs to support data collection, management, and analysis.

    Essential Job Responsibilities

    TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

    • Provide leadership, training and mentoring in the development of M&E Plans, M&E tools, survey design, methodology, data analysis, and other skills required for assessing the impact of programs.
    • Lead and/or collaborate with external evaluators on the design and rollout of the program assessments, baseline and evaluations, while setting up effective systems for learning.
    • Ensures programs use the necessary M&E systems and tools, to inform and improve each individual program, as well as feed into the broader country-level M&E system and country strategy.
    • Take the lead in aligning, collecting and reporting on relevant indicators to the organizational-wide M&E systems, and other external systems as relevant.
    • Support teams in collecting sex and age-disaggregated data and using gender-sensitive data collection methods in order to understand and respond to program results with diverse participants.
    • Participates in the facilitation of country and sector-level strategic planning sessions, assisting program managers and senior management in the development of their annual plans.
    • Identify research opportunities and partnerships that respond to priority topics and questions, and which connect to Mercy Corp’s field emergency response programming and national and regional strategic plans.
    • Lead on both internal and external Data Quality Assessment (DQA) in collaboration with BHA Third Party Monitoring partners.

    INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

    • Works with the program and M&E teams to adopt a holistic country-level M&E system (including Tola Data) that harnesses open-source software and flexible cloud solutions to more accurately collect, monitor and verify program activities and ensure they are aligned with the country strategic and annual plan.
    • Provides guidance, recommendations, and leadership to ensure that the M&E systems meet the needs of Programs Managers and Country Leadership and help address shortfalls in M&E and data management that affect program implementation.
    • Contributes to program design to ensure adherence to Mercy Corps’ M&E best practices, including the use of standardized indicators, form templates, and documentation methodologies.
    • Maintain a comprehensive schedule of private and institutional funding reports for programs and review project/program reports to ensure that reports contain accurate, clear, and high-quality data and are presented in the proper format.
    • Develop program and operational reporting templates that facilitate the acquisition, aggregation, and flow of information in programs.

    CAPACITY BUILDING AND MENTORING

    • Develops and oversees the implementation of the M&E staff and partner capacity-building strategy that promotes a culture of learning through systematic analysis and reflection of program data.
    • Build the capacity of all relevant team members to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system, including regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring data.
    • Work closely with Program Managers, Human Resources, and Finance to ensure that M&E skills are incorporated into all program position descriptions and positions are budgeted for.
    • Contributes to the knowledge management repository with best practices in M&E and ensures that it is accessible to all staff and partners.
    • Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

    INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL COORDINATION

    • Active contributor and collaborator with sector clusters (majorly on joint assessments in Borno State) and regional and global counterparts to promote the use of M&E best practices.
    • Strengthen linkages with other internal resources, including the LMS, Digital Library, Hub, and Connect, to enhance organizational learning where relevant to M&E.
    • Maintain close working relationships with M&E counterparts in other relevant international NGOs and local NGOs and associations in Nigeria.

    Organizational Learning

    • As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

    Accountability to Beneficiaries

    • Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

    Knowledge and Experience

    • BA/S degree in development studies, research methods, statistics, economics, social sciences, monitoring and evaluation, project management or other relevant field required. Postgraduate degree preferred.
    • 3-5 years of active M&E work experience in emergency and development programming required with the proven use of program technology.
    • Experience with theoretical and practical background in M&E and skilled in participatory qualitative and quantitative M&E methodologies and techniques.
    • Excellent quantitative skills and power user with Excel; Experience with Access, and statistical packages including Stata, R or SPSS and GIS tools like QGIS, ArcGIS or Google Earth Pro is preferred.
    • Experience with data management including the ability to structure and collate data sets for ease of analysis.
    • Demonstrated understanding of intermediate statistics and ability to summarize and make predictions from multiple data sets.
    • Experience working on USAID programs preferred.
    • Previous experience living and working in challenging or insecure environments.
    • Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
    • Knowledge of Hausa and other local dialects is preferred.

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    Strategic Learning Specialist

    General Position Summary

    The Strategic Learning Specialist (SLS) will create and maintain a culture of learning across the portfolio in collaboration with the country and program MEL teams and the Technical Support Unit comprising sectoral leads. The SLS will engage internal and external stakeholders in gathering and analyzing results and lessons emerging from the intervention areas to further inform the adaptation, sequencing, and effectiveness of Mercy Corp interventions and the broader sectors in which we work.

    The SLS will generate knowledge from the ground to further the country-level learning agenda, strengthen program efficiency and effectiveness, and drive influence with peers, donors, and government. Additionally, the role will be the key focal point for mapping, articulating, and developing a centralized resource that tracks MCN research objectives and priorities across the country portfolio and ensures research uptake, and builds the capacity of program staff in learning

    Essential Job Responsibilities

    RESEARCH AND LEARNING

    • Track the programmatic learning agendas, linking them to portfolio-level goals to ensure alignment of resources across the portfolio to drive forward the country strategy, acting as the PAQ focal point for learning.
    • Map and consolidate the database of ongoing research initiatives across the country portfolio.
    • Track new research and learning opportunities and where relevant, contribute to research/learning-related elements of proposals.
    • Support the Program Leads and MEL teams to ensure the quality, timeliness, and utility of all research processes and products.
    • Collaborate with program leads, MEL units, and communication team to strengthen the dissemination of research, including identifying key internal and external audiences, country / regional fora, key events, conferences, and speaking events and driving forward engagements.
    • Coordinate with Program Leads and MEL teams to ensure integration and alignment of research fieldwork into program MEL activities and timelines.
    • Document, and make available in useful form, evidence and analytic results from studies and evaluation reports, meeting notes, decisions made, and follow-ups from learning engagements.
    • As needed, act as a liaison between HQ research teams and MCN program teams to coordinate in-country research activities.
    • Provide training and capacity building on research and learning to staff and stakeholders.
    • Bringing knowledge and best practice from outside around new research and learning.
    • Creating and/or strengthening in country communities of practice around key outcomes for Mercy Corps.

    PROGRAM QUALITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

    • Support programs to conduct Quarterly Review and reflection meetings in close collaboration with program leads, ensure learning from those reflections is shared beyond the program and well articulated for external audiences where relevant.
    •  Work with the community accountability and reporting mechanisms (CARM) to ensure findings from feedback are being integrated into program strategies.

    TEAM BUILDING AND INTEGRATION

    • Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve
      excellence.
    • Driving a learning culture in the organization.
    • Actively contribute and collaborate with programs, sectors, and regional and global counterparts to promote the use of learning best practices.
    • Contribute to country team-building efforts, help team members identify problem-solving options, and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.

    INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION

    • Represent Mercy Corps at national and state-level coordination forums as required.
    • Where relevant, develop agenda and talking points for contribution at national and state-level coordination forums.
    • Represent Mercy Corps with local stakeholders and authorities as required.
    • Represent Mercy Corps at internal coordination forums as required.

    SECURITY

    • Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
    • Proactively ensure that you operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

    Organizational Learning

    • As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

    Accountability to Beneficiaries

    • Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

    Knowledge and Experience

    • BA/S degree or equivalent in relevant field; advanced degrees preferred.
    • 5 to 7 years of field experience in international relief or development programs
    • Experience developing and implementing learning agendas and other learning activities including capacity building of staff.
    • Strong written and oral cross-cultural communication skills, with experience in developing a range of communication tools (briefs, webinars, etc.)
    • Proven ability to work with diverse teams across multiple locations.
    • Ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to diverse audiences
    • Familiarity with research methodologies and approaches.
    • Successful and proven negotiation, communication, and organization skills
    • Familiarity with various tech platforms for dissemination of learning (zoom, teams, etc.)
    • Excellent oral and written English skills.
    • Knowledge of resilience, livelihoods, conflict, and/or protection programming is a plus.

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    Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA) and Communications Manager - (Re-Advertised)

    General Position Summary

    The CLA and Communications Manager will manage the overall communications and learning needs of the Rural Resilience Activity, including implementation of the CLA and Communications strategies; development of SBCC/IEC materials, learning briefs, case studies, factsheets, success stories, audio-visuals and other messaging required for the visibility of various interventions implemented by the Activity throughout its lifecycle. S/he will be responsible for (a) cross-cutting programmatic information management within the framework of the program; (b) ensuring that information is shared and used for continuous improvement of ongoing interventions. S/he will have responsibility for leading the development of high qualify reports and success stories for dissemination and documentation.

    The CLA and Communications Manager will also develop Activity-level learning questions to facilitate adaptive management and rapid replication of successful approaches. S/he will identify what kinds of information and analysis are required beyond monitoring data to help inform and strengthen RRA’s MEL system. S/he will strengthen CARM (Community Accountability and Reporting Mechanism) practices, work closely with the program team to come up with innovative ways of promoting CARM, and ensuring the Activity uses the Community Accountability and Reporting Mechanism data to inform and improve implementation as well as feeding into the documentation of best practices.

    Essential Job Responsibilities

    TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

    • Work closely with the Country Office Communication Team in the implementation, review and update of the communications and visibility plan for the Activity, and efficient documentation and implementation of relevant activities in adherence to Mercy Corps global standards and USAID requirements.
    • Contribute to program and country team-building efforts and communications support for field teams.
    • Develop and organize activities to secure resources for Programs and convince stakeholders to provide support.
    • Work with the Technology for Development coordinator to develop IEC materials that are appropriate for the various types of program participants.
    • Works with the intervention teams to adopt a holistic program-level CLA/Communications system.
    • Provides guidance, recommendations, and leadership to ensure that the CLA/comms systems meet the needs of Programs Managers and Country Leadership and help address shortfalls in CLA/communications that affect program implementation. 
    • Contributes to program design to ensure adherence to Mercy Corps’ resilience measurement and CLA/communications best practices.
    • Develop program and operational reporting templates that facilitate the acquisition, aggregation, and flow of information in programs.
    • Facilitate partner and stakeholder collaboration through activities including joint work planning, regular partner meetings that facilitate knowledge sharing, and/or working groups organized along geographic or technical lines.
    • Actively participate in meetings and processes to promote effective communication practices for the program and in support of the country portfolio.

    LEARNING AND COMMUNICATION

    • Coordinate knowledge capturing, sharing, and strategic learning to speed innovation and bring innovations to the program.
    • Synthesize findings from evaluations, assessments, special studies, and other sources for use in Activity designs, communications, stakeholder coordination, and reporting.
    • Establish and strengthen a functional feedback mechanism in all the communities to ensure that the feedback is encouraged, captured, and reviewed periodically for emerging trends, lessons, and potential gaps to be addressed by capacity building.
    • Oversee the compilation and dissemination of information from both quantitative and qualitative data on successful and promising approaches, lessons learned, and other program results to local, national, and regional-level intergovernmental bodies, donors, partners, and other stakeholders.
    • Lead the development and completion of the Quarterly Progress Reports and Annual Performance Reports.
    • Support facilitation, including processes and workshops; learning, collaboration, and coordination among implementing partners and other collaborators; producing reflections on the implications of new learning; establish a network of key stakeholders with the Intervention Lead and organize periodic, appropriate opportunities for the Activity to interact with them based on strategy implementation and evidence-based experience.
    • Coordinate, plan, and implement institutional learning activities relevant to the achievement of the Rural Resilience Activity’s objectives, such as special studies, pause and reflection sessions, after-action reviews, briefings, communities of practice, learning events, and/or seminars.
    • Use USAID’s CLA principles to effectively integrate real-time monitoring and learning back into the project strategy and program implementation and ensure knowledge is shared with the broader host country community.
    • Prepare analysis from available sources including MEL findings, CARM, field challenges, and lead sessions to develop adaptive management guidance/ recommendations.
    • Lead the production of briefs, case studies, and reader-friendly documentation for dissemination of results in the country, both at the government/donor level and at the community level.
    • Maintain and enhance the visibility of the program, identify and manage risks, and strengthen the reputation of the Activity.
    • Builds the capacity of all relevant team members to develop and maintain an excellent learning system, including regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring data.
    • Contribute to the knowledge management repository with best practices in communication and knowledge management and ensures that it is accessible to all staff and partners.
    • Establish a close working relationship with relevant media practitioners in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe states and at the national level and maintain a database of key media and public relations contacts.
    • Develop and share content on Mercy Corps Global internal platforms (Workplace pages, The Hub and The Globe) and frequent updates to the country office communications for dissemination to Mercy Corps Nigeria external communications platforms.
    • Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations, including security procedures and policies.
    • Travel to field locations to collect images, success stories based on program results, and other communications content to highlight programs successes, staff well-being, or any other topic as the need arises.

    CAPACITY BUILDING AND MENTORING

    • Provide capacity building on knowledge management, actionable learning, and adaptive management approaches.
    • Support the MEL Manager in building the capacity of staff, government counterparts, private sector, and other stakeholders in program monitoring and evaluation, data collection and management, and CLA methods as necessary.
    • Work closely with Program Managers, Human Resources, and Finance to ensure that CLA skills are incorporated into all program position descriptions and positions are budgeted for.
    • Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
    • Help teams to plan and conduct effective dissemination of program materials to different Stakeholders.
    • Help identify team members’ capacity-building needs and the implementation of communications capacity-building and learning activities.
    • Facilitate communications capacity-building training/sessions for program team members and partner staff.
    • Support the planning and coordinating of communications trainings, workshops and other events, as the need arises.
    • Work with all stakeholders to identify new communications vehicles and platforms to expand the Activity’s dissemination base.
    • Build strategic partnerships and maintains positive and effective communication with partners; play a leading role in sustaining external relationships with partners.
    • Develop and oversees RRA team and partner capacity-building strategy that promotes a Culture of communication and learning.
    • Build the capacity of all relevant team members to develop and maintain an excellent learning system, including regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring data.
    • Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

    Knowledge and Experience

    • Master’s degree in communication studies, development studies, research methods, statistics, economics, social sciences, monitoring and evaluation, Knowledge management, project management, or other relevant field required.
    • 10 years of active work experience in communications, MEL or CLA in emergency and development programming.
    • Excellent quantitative and qualitative analysis skills required. Preferrable in Excel, Access, other statistical packages including Stata, R or SPSS and GIS tools like QGIS, ArcGIS, or Google Earth Pro is preferred.
    • Experience with data management including the ability to structure and collate data sets for ease of analysis.
    • Experience of working on USAID programs preferred.
    • Proven leadership experience in organizational and peer-to-peer learning, capacity strengthening, and collaborative learning and adaptation.
    • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain partnerships and productive working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
    • Demonstrated skill and experience in facilitating groups, meetings, and events (both online and in-person), resulting in collaborative decision-making, agreed-upon action items/priorities, and strong outcomes.
    • Strong analytical, synthesis, report writing, and presentation skills and ability to deliver on time; fluency in spoken and written English required. Hausa is a plus.
    • Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving, and systems thinking skills with the capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment.

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    Senior Sub-Award & Compliance Officer

    General Position Summary

    The Senior Sub-Award & Compliance Officer is responsible for managing the programmatic and operational aspects of sub-awards issued under the program in Mercy Corps Nigeria. Working with the sub-award team, identifying new sub-grantees & participating in the due diligence process and drafting subaward agreements.

    S/he will also lead efforts to build the capacity of local sub-recipients to meet finance and compliance requirements of the relevant program’s prime donor and other donors, so that these local organizations develop professional personnel and systems. Work closely with consortium-level sub-recipient organizations to ensure they are issuing, managing and monitoring subawards in accordance with the sub-award agreement.

    Essential Job Responsibilities

    Sub Awards Management

    • Participate in the design of new initiatives that require partnership strategies and manage the relationships with prospective partners.
    • Prepare Request for Application (RFA) or call for proposal for competitive processes that clearly define and communicate steps for selecting, negotiating and awarding sub-awards.
    • Develop & prepare program-specific sub-awards procedure manual, when needed.
    • Conduct pre-award Programmatic capacity review and other due diligence of apparently successful applicants. Facilitate with HQ & partners in developing draft sub-award agreement.
    • Review & refine the Sub-grantee program description & milestones in sub-grant agreements. Support partners in identifying activities & developing their budget.
    • Develop sub-recipient monitoring plans, and conduct programmatic monitoring of sub-recipients. Visit sub-recipients and produce regular programmatic monitoring visit reports.
    • Review sub-recipient programmatic reports for correctness and completeness in line with financial reports and ensure that reports are submitted on time. Follow up on the resolution of program & finance performance report issues.
    • Organize coordination meetings & programmatic correspondence with the sub-recipient for creating smooth relationships.
    • Process the request for procurement for grants & sub-grants, assist in developing forecast & activity plan & review Actual versus budget variance analysis together with finance.
    • Maintain & update programmatic report on PM@MC folder file for program and follow up on Programmatic sub-award files in soft & hard copy,
    • Assist sub-award close-outs & evaluation, including ensuring that all requirements of the sub-award agreement have been met and that sub-award program reports are submitted.

    Partnership Management

    • Provide program guidance and technical support for sub-grant award capacity building through the provision of support to partner organizations as required and in coordination with the relevant program team.
    • Conduct the capacity assessment of identified organizations using Mercy Corps’ Organizational Capacity Index (OCI) tool and using OCI findings to support partner organizations to create capacity development plans.
    • Refine organizational development tools and recommend best approaches for partner capacity development based on existing Mercy Corps knowledge and experience.
    • Deliver training to build partner capacity and technical competencies as well as start-up monitoring and evaluation training
    • Support peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and peer mentorship opportunities, including field site visits and learning events.
    • Provide technical guidance to develop/strengthen partner organization’s administrative and financial management systems and structures.
    • Work closely with consortium-level sub-recipient organizations to ensure they are issuing, managing, and monitoring subawards in accordance with the sub-award manual.
    • Other duties as assigned

    Influence & Representation

    • Interface with the (donor) representatives to convey information about programs as appropriate.
    • Participate in sharing best practices with NGOs and governmental agencies.
    • Consistently demonstrate flexibility, resilience and ability to maintain positive relationships and composure, even under difficult circumstances.
    • Maintain high ethical standards and treat people with respect and dignity.
    • Demonstrate an awareness of his/her own strengths and development needs.

    Security

    • Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
    • Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

    Knowledge and Experience

    • BA/S or equivalent in Social Science, Management, International Development or other relevant fields; MA/S preferred.
    • At least 3 years of progressive experience and proven high level of competence in working in NGOs/INGO capacity building programs, ideally in relief and/or post-conflict settings and strong gender background.
    • Strong knowledge of, and experience with organizational development of CSOs in challenging environments, and ability to inform the content and method of organizational development training.
    • Proven track record in staff and stakeholder training and capacity building and TOT training.
    • Strong knowledge and understanding of conflict mitigation, peace-building and negotiation and ability to translate them into capacity-building elements for peace actors.
    • Strong knowledge of gender, vulnerable groups and human rights theory, including the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Declaration and their implementation process with civic and government counterparts.
    • In-depth knowledge and direct exposure to gender-related activities.
    • Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills.
    • Ability and interest to work with a multi-ethnic team in a culturally appropriate manner.
    • Internationally recognized qualification in project or program management or a commitment to obtain the qualification in the early months of work.
    • Knowledge of Sphere standards and other training in humanitarian response is preferred.

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