Jobs at GOALPrime Organization Nigeria

Background

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a National Non-profit Non-Government Organization with a mandate of Making life better for vulnerable children and women across nations. Following the challenges children are facing to have adequate support from social services and institutions to access basic amenities for their growth and development across nations. GPON is saddled to provide complementary support to vulnerable children across nations to attain personal growth and development. GOALPrime Organization Nigeria is presently operating in Northeast Nigeria and FTC where we have reached over 2,000,000 lives (directly and indirectly) with integrated services, we support internally displaced persons with emergency relief materials, Child Protection services, WASH services, GBV mitigation services, Livelihood skill building, Health services, Peace building and Education support services. GPON work in both emergency and development context.

Job Summary

GPON Supply Chain entails all the systems and support functions vital to implement programs effectively, broad of procurement, logistics, inventory management, property and asset management as well as the vehicle. Procurement is key to the success of quality programs. The Supply Chain Coordinator (SCC) is accountable for the design, planning, execution, and monitoring of all its activities at the country level. S/he will report directly to the Operation Manager, while maintaining strong linkages with program and finance teams. S/he will supervise all SC and procurement staff in field offices. 

Responsibilities:

Procurement Management

• lead and drive GPON procurement strategies, policies and procedures. The position holder ensures all country program procurement needs are met on time in accordance with GPON, partners and donor standards.
• Ensure review and execution of procurement contracts in a timely fashion
• Lead market surveys and analyses by collecting, organizing, and analyzing market data and sharing results with the program team and field Coordinators and Managers on a regular basis.
• Ensure the bidding process by developing and implementing the office sourcing strategy, handling the Master Agreements and RFQ/RFP Processes, and completing a purchase request process
• Develop negotiation strategies for high spent categories
• Proactively engage with Programs, Suppliers, Partners, and other collaborators to ensure good coordination and adequate information sharing to address common concerns or risks affecting the market
• Organize procurement training sessions for procurement / tender committees in the field offices and non procurement staff if deemed necessary.
• Identifying fraud, corruption red flags and addressing them promptly.
• Establish reasonable and appropriate lead-time for all procurement of program supplies and delivery of goods to the program sites.
• Make sure procurement monthly and quarterly reports are analyzed and communicated to collaborators including key actions to be taken and submitted on time to the leadership team.
• Review of procurement Key performance indicators (KPIs) and set improvement plans.
• Ensure all vendors’ history and performance Information, is properly documented and procurement transaction files and supplier files maintained in accordance with applicable Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Work with Field Offices procurement staff and Field Coordinator and Managers to ensure effectiveness, countrywide uniformity of procurement structure and implementation of the GPON’s standard operating policies and procedures
• Prepare consolidated procurement plans (with regular updates) and develop country program sourcing strategy for all active and pipeline grants in collaboration with the Program team
• Ensure that the program team develop a distribution plan for supplies and assets grants in the warehouses in accordance with donor requirements
• Proactively engage in the Project Cycle Meetings, including Project design, project planning, Project opening, project review, project close-out, and project learning meetings to ensure that supply chain-related issues are well articulated to all collaborators and resolved for successful project delivery.
• Actively participate in Budget vs Actual (BvA) meetings and work with teams to remedy any procurement bottlenecks
• Input procurement costs into budgets and spending plans
• Participate in internal & external audits

Inventory Management

• The SCC is responsible for managing and controlling all inventory and ensuring excellent record-keeping, in accordance with inventory standard operating procedures and controls. S/he will:
• Ensure appropriate warehouse site selection, and Implementation of warehouse safety/security requirements
• Ensure effective handling of inventory, including drug storage, cold chain, buffer stock, contributions in kind (CIK), and food commodities
• Set up stock reorder levels as per the GPON standard operating procedures and donor requirements
• Implement GPON inventory & asset policies with regard to all project Items including cycle count, investigate discrepancies and develop an action plan to address them. Work with compliance & programs to ensure that policies are in line with donor requirements
• Produce grants ending and year ending inventory reports during each grant closing and end of the fiscal year in a timely manner. If needed, produce more regular reporting for review of inventory
• Coordinate inventory disposal procedures as per government, GPON, and donor rules and regulations

Asset Management

• Responsible for the procurement, maintenance, safekeeping, and record of all GPON country program assets and equipment. S/he will be responsible for all aspects of the administrative, financial, capital, and operations of asset management in accordance with GPON and donors rules and regulations.
• Conduct Asset needs assessment
• Develop Assets maintenance plans as per GPON policies, including repairs tracking and insurance coverage process.
• Ensure spot-checks are done systematically on a quarterly basis, any discrepancies documented and reported; and action to address the root causes developed for all GPON assets, inventory, and equipment.
• Handle asset and property disposal, including auction management as per the GPON asset disposal process
• Ensure that grants inventory and asset report is accurate , regularly produced, reviewed, and approved before the Grant closing date.

Staff Management and Development

• S/he will be responsible and accountable for supervising all procurement learning and development initiatives in-country by:
• Supporting the recruitment of new staff
• Ensuring that the department is well staffed and roles and responsibilities of each have a clear job description.
• Ensuring each team members' objectives are set following the organizational unit vision as well as operations context(s);
• Ensuring assessment of staff competency and training gaps and developing appropriate intervention programs
• Ensure staff training and capacity building plans are developed and incorporated into budgets (staff & partners)
• Coordinating training and maintaining training records

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Advanced professional certification in supply chain management and/or emergency response management is strongly preferred.
• At least 5 years of dynamic Supply Chain professional experience, with 3 years at a similar level of responsibility
• Experience working in a humanitarian context
• Experience with data analysis
• Demonstrated ability to develop and roll out supply chain policy and SOPs
• Strong collaborator and influencer with effective interpersonal and analytical skills who can work seamlessly across countries, cultures, and organizational units
• Able to work optimally in a highly matrixed structure
• Strong financial management and budgeting skills

Availability: 10.01.2023

Salary and conditions: In accordance with GPON Terms of Employment. The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.

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Applications close on the 15th  of January 2023 at midnight (GMT-time). Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.

Due to the urgency of the position, GPON has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.

Background

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a National Non-profit Non-Government Organization with a mandate of Making life better for vulnerable children and women across nations. Following the challenges children are facing to have adequate support from social services and institutions to access basic amenities for their growth and development across nations. GPON is saddled to provide complementary support to vulnerable children across nations to attain personal growth and development. GOALPrime Organization Nigeria is presently operating in Northeast Nigeria and FTC where we have reached over 2,000,000 lives (directly and indirectly) with integrated services, we support internally displaced persons with emergency relief materials, Child Protection services, WASH services, GBV mitigation services, Livelihood skill building, Health services, Peace building and Education support services. GPON work in both emergency and development context.

Job Description

We are looking for a Back-End Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions

Skills And Qualifications

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors, such as LESS and SASS
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance {{Depending on a specific project}}
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Setup and administration of backups
• Outputting data in different formats
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language { knowledge of one or more of PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, .NET, JavaScript etc.}
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles
• Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment

Qualifications 

• Minimum of HND/BSC. However, anyone that can demonstrate that they have the sufficient skills and can deliver the anticipated result is encouraged to apply

Availability: 29. 01.2023

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Applications close on the 15th of January 2023 at midnight (GMT-time). Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.

Due to the urgency of the position, GPON has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.

Background

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a National Non-profit Non-Government Organization with a mandate of Making life better for vulnerable children and women across nations. Following the challenges children are facing to have adequate support from social services and institutions to access basic amenities for their growth and development across nations. GPON is saddled to provide complementary support to vulnerable children across nations to attain personal growth and development. GOALPrime Organization Nigeria is presently operating in Northeast Nigeria and FTC where we have reached over 2,000,000 lives (directly and indirectly) with integrated services, we support internally displaced persons with emergency relief materials, Child Protection services, WASH services, GBV mitigation services, Livelihood skill building, Health services, Peace building and Education support services. GPON work in both emergency and development context.

Job Description

• We are looking for an experienced Software Architect and UX-UI Designer/Researcher that will be responsible for collecting, researching, investigating and evaluating user requirements. Their responsibility is to deliver an outstanding user experience providing an exceptional and intuitive application design, also, to make intuitive high-level decisions for software development, with the ability to see the “big picture” and create architectural approaches for software design and implementation to guide the development team.
• Someone that is experienced in designing and possess the ability to develop a unified vision for software characteristics and functions. The goal is to provide a framework for the development of a software or system that will result in high quality IT solutions.
• Lastly, you will be responsible for delivering the best online user experience, which makes your role extremely important for our success and ensuring customer satisfaction and loyalty. You will be designing ideas using various methods and latest technology. You will be designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, forms, and widgets.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other team members to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications
• Use tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired product
• Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility
• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to development team
• Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
• Approve final product before launch
• plan and implement new designs 
• Optimize existing user interface designs
• Communicate with project coordinators, and other stake holders to understand their business goals and objectives
• Create prototypes for new product ideas
• Conduct an ongoing user research

Qualifications 

• Proven experience as software architect (Minimum of 1-2 years of experience as an UI-UX Designer or similar role)
• Experience in software development and coding in various languages (C#, NET, HTML, JavaScript and UI/UX de etc.)
• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
• Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail
• High quality organizational and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities
• Ability to discuss and explain design options
• Knowledge of Adobe range of products including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and Dreamweaver
• Some knowledge of Usability Factors in Human Computer Interaction.

Availability: 29. 01.2023

Salary and conditions: In accordance with GPON Terms of Employment. The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.

go to method of application »

Applications close on the 15th of January 2023 at midnight (GMT-time). Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.

Due to the urgency of the position, GPON has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.

Background

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a National Non-profit Non-Government Organization with a mandate of Making life better for vulnerable children and women across nations. Following the challenges children are facing to have adequate support from social services and institutions to access basic amenities for their growth and development across nations. GPON is saddled to provide complementary support to vulnerable children across nations to attain personal growth and development. GOALPrime Organization Nigeria is presently operating in Northeast Nigeria and FTC where we have reached over 2,000,000 lives (directly and indirectly) with integrated services, we support internally displaced persons with emergency relief materials, Child Protection services, WASH services, GBV mitigation services, Livelihood skill building, Health services, Peace building and Education support services. GPON work in both emergency and development context.

Job Description

We are looking for a qualified Front-end developer with back end experience to join our IT team. You will be responsible for building the ‘client-side’ of our web applications. You should be able to translate GPON needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.

If you’re interested in creating a user-friendly environment by writing code and moving forward in your career, then this job is for you. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design.

Ultimately, you should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring great user experience.

Responsibilities

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
• Maintain and improve website
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Requirement

• Proven work experience as a Front-end developer
• Little and Ready to learn back end developer skills
• Hands on experience with markup languages
• Experience with JavaScript, CSS and jQuery
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Knowledge of SEO principles
• Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop and content management systems
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
• BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Note: This role requires a minimum of HND/BSC. However, anyone that can demonstrate that they have the sufficient skills and can deliver the anticipated result is encouraged to apply

Availability: 29. 01.2023

Salary and conditions: In accordance with GPON Terms of Employment. The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.