Job Vacancies at the International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Reference No.: req14234
Location: Bama, Borno  Application Link

Location: Gujba, Yobe  Application Link

Location: Michika, Adamawa  Application Link
Employment Type: Full-Time
Sector: Education
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Open to Expatriates: No

IRC Nigeria Program

• The IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In February 2014, the IRC moved into Adamawa State in North East Nigeria to provide humanitarian interventions through a multi-sectoral, integrated approach for conflict affected populations. IRC Nigeria now operates a country office in Abuja and field offices in Mubi and Yola of Adamawa State, Maiduguri and Monguno of Borno state and Damatru of Yobe State.
• The IRC is responding at scale to the humanitarian situation across sectors including Education, Child Protection, Health, Nutrition, Women Protection and Empowerment, Environmental Health, Economic Recovery and Development, Protection and Rule of Law, and Governance.

Job Overview / Summary

• The IRC is currently implementing a 36 months ECHO-funded regional Programme titled ‘Protective and adaptive Education Approaches for Children in Emergencies (PEACE)’ in Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon between 2020 and 2023. In Nigeria, PEACE takes an integrated and adaptive approach to education and child protection, to support more than 81,000 school-aged boys and girls most affected by crisis across Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States (BAY)  to access and learn in safe educational environments.
• The Education Officer will be responsible for the overall management of education activities in the respective LGAs(either in Gwoza/Bama,  or Damaturu/Gujba or Michika. S/he will be responsible for providing technical leadership for all the education activities, including leading and coordinating the non-formal education program and systems support activities at the national and state level. The position reports to the respective Senior Education Officers in Damaturu or Gwoza or Michika.

Major Responsibilities

• Oversee the implementation of all PEACE project activities in one of the assigned LGAs(Gwoza/Bama,  Damaturu/Gujba and Michika)
• Work in collaboration with the Child Protection team in the implementation of the project activities, ensuring integration of CP and education in the project.    
• Oversee training, coaching and on-going support for teachers, tutors and learning facilitators in order to improve instructional practices in literacy, numeracy and social and emotional skills.
• Ensure technical coordination of state-level activities related to teacher education and curriculum development, and obtain support from directorates and local government authorities as needed
• Oversee the selection of learning facilitators (teachers) and tutors for the intervention and contribute to tools for selection such as assessment tools.  
• Oversee the initial training of learning facilitators, as well as their continuous professional development.  
• Monitor progress towards the objectives and intended outputs pertaining to teacher education using routine data, spot checks, observation, and other methodologies. 
• Provide regular written and verbal reports on education activities to supervisor.
• Promote the quality of non-formal education activities by setting up quality assurance mechanisms and checks in collaboration with other staff. 

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to: Senior Education Officer in the state with dotted line reporting to State Manager (of respective state)
• Position directly supervises: Learning Facilitators Team Leads, and Tutors
• Indirect Reporting: Senior Edu and CP Manager  

Qualifications

• University degree in education, social sciences, or any other relevant field
• At least three years of relevant professional experience with an international or civil society organization, including direct implementation of education programming.
• At least three years of experience related to teacher professional development. 
• Experience working with displaced or otherwise marginalized communities required.
• Strong verbal communication skills and effective in representation and liaison with external actors
• Excellent spoken and technical writing ability in English, including report writing and Hausa proficiency preferred. 
• Good computer skills in programs including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Good leadership skills
• Good administrative skills
• Ability to work under pressure in challenging working and living conditions.

Working Environment:

• Standards of Professional Conduct:  The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.
• Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.

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Reference No.: req14232
Location: Damaturu, Yobe   Application Link

Location: Maiduguri, Borno  Application Link
Employment Type: Full Time
Sector: Education
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Open to Expatriates: No

IRC Nigeria Program
The IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012  when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In February 2014, the IRC moved into Adamawa State in North East Nigeria to provide humanitarian interventions through a multi-sectoral, integrated approach for conflict affected populations.

IRC Nigeria now operates a country office in Abuja and field offices in Mubi and Yola of Adamawa State, Maiduguri and Monguno of Borno state and Damatru of Yobe State. The IRC is responding at scale to the humanitarian situation across sectors including Education, Child Protection, Health, Nutrition, Women Protection and Empowerment, Environmental Health, Economic Recovery and Development, Protection and Rule of Law, and Governance.

Job Overview / Summary
IRC is currently implementing:

• FCDO-funded Education in Emergency project (2017 – 2021) that aims to ensure that 54,000 children are able to learn in a safe environment responsive to their needs (literacy, numeracy and social and emotional skills) in Borno and Yobe States by September 2021.
• A USAID-funded project (2019 – 2021) in collaboration with Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, which aims to test the delivery model of an array of flexible social and emotional activities and games in IRC-supported schools in Borno and Yobe states.
• ECHO - funded ‘Protective and adaptive Education Approaches for Children in Emergencies (PEACE)’ which aims at supporting more than 81,000 school-aged boys across BAY states to access and learn in safe educational environments, together with Child Protection.
• Educate A Child Programme “Improving Access to Education for Conflict-Affected Children in Northeast Nigeria” that aims to reach 20,000 children in BAY States with quality non-formal education services.  
• The M&E Officers to be based in Damaturu and Maiduguri will be responsible for the overall coordination of the monitoring, learning and evaluation related activities of the FCDO-EiE, USAID DIV, EAC, and ECHO PEACE Projects in the respective state (Yobe or Borno). This position is based in Damaturu or Maiduguri and reports to respective State Education Managers.

Major Responsibilities

• Closely work with Education and M&E staff in Borno, and Yobe to make sure that all the education projects in the state have standard monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators progresses.
• Ensures proper implementation of the education projects’ accountability/feedback mechanism in their respective states.
• Assist Education M&E Manager in conducting and documenting project learning, and sharing lessons learned and best practices, incorporating these into project implementation.
• Facilitate the preparations of monthly project activity plans including M&E plans
• Work with project staff to determine which monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods to use
• Work with project staff to ensure that the project work plans include monitoring activities (or that a stand-alone monitoring work plan is in place), is up-to date and progress tracked
• Work with project staff to develop, translate, pilot, and finalize data collection tools as needed.
• Work with projects to ensure that data is collected and entered databases and tracking sheets, and the data platform regularly.
• Work with project staff to track progress on action points related to implementation and M&E activities
• Work with EAC project staff to provide M&E inputs for reports written during project implementation.
• Closely follow up the field data collection and flag the data collection issues to the Education Managers and Education M&E Manager
• Conduct data quality audits of project data to identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data quality.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to: Education Manager (State)
• Position directly supervises:  None
• Indirect Reporting:  Education M&E Manager.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Statistics, Social Science, Development Economics or a related discipline
• Minimum of three years of experience within the development / humanitarian sector
• Proven technical skills in monitoring and evaluation, experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
• Proven abilities in developing monitoring plans, data collection, information management, use of databases, and analysis and performance monitoring
• Demonstrated ability to train and build the capacity of others
• Comprehensive knowledge of humanitarian accountability principles and their translation into practice
• Strong planning, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical, presentation, and reporting skills
• An excellent database, data management, and data analysis skills, with experience using at least two software applications such as Microsoft Excel, Access, SPSS, STATA, Epidata, Epi-Info
• Willingness to travel extensively in northeast Nigeria, including to remote and/or insecure locations

Working Environment

• Standards of Professional Conduct:  The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. 
• In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

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Reference No.: req14258
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full Time
Sector: Human Resources
Employment Category: Intern
Open to Expatriates: No

IRC Nigeria Program
IRC began working in Nigeria in October 2012 in response to a widespread flood disaster. Since then, IRC has expanded its program scope and size with the aiming of making the greatest possible contribution to meeting humanitarian needs in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states in North-East Nigeria.

IRC’s response includes integrated health, reproductive health and nutrition services, protection including women’s protection and empowerment services and child protection, environmental health, economic recovery and development, governance, and education. In 2015, IRC Nigeria developed a five-year Strategy Action Plan (SAP), which has health and education as high priority program areas. 

Job Overview / Summary

• Under the coaching and supervision of HR Officer, the HR and Admin Intern will provide necessary support to Maiduguri the HR/Admin team.

Major Responsibilities
Human Resources:

• Assist with onboarding and orientation of new hires in Maiduguri field office.
• Documentation of new hires and file management
• Support with tracking of leave, time sheet and exit documents.
• Support with Scanning documents and updating the online staff database.
•  Support with Filing, labelling of all files accordingly of hard copies of staff documents.
• Support with compilation of Health Insurance and Life Insurance Documents for Maiduguri staff.

Administration:

• Support in the supervision of cooks and cleaners
• Assist in coordinating booking and tracking of travels and accommodation as well & documentation of payment documents.
• Assist in following up with immigration and related statutory agencies for staff working and traveling permit.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to:  HR Officer
• Position directly supervises:  N/A
• Indirect Reporting: HR Manager
• Other Internal and/or external contacts:.
• Internal: HR and Admin team
• External:  N/A

Job Requirements
Education:

• B.Sc / B.A  or  HND in Social sciences

Work Experience:

• Fresh graduate who has completed NYSC and residing in Maiduguri.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Good computer skills (Excel and word).
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to maintain the highest degree of discretion and confidentiality.

Language Skills:

• Fluent written and spoken English.

Certificates or Licenses:

• N/A.

Working Environment

• The HR and Admin Intern position is based in Maiduguri.The security situation in North East Nigeria continues to be volatile with security level currently at 3 (orange), though subject to change; candidates should be prepared to implement programming in insecure environments.