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As a lead for the Social Cohesion and Governance Capacity Strengthening for Advancing Cross-border Resilience and Opportunities for Safety and Stability (ACROSS) Project, you will facilitate the achievement of project objectives through coordinating and reporting on all social cohesion and local governance capacity strengthening project activities and providing technical guidance and advice to staff and implementing partner(s) advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. Your coordination and relationship management skills will ensure that the project for which you are responsible applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve. 

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Organize and lead the implementation of all social cohesion and local governance capacity strengthening assigned project activities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Ensure learning properly accompanies project activities throughout the project cycle. Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and guiding partners in their efforts to reflect on project experiences. Analyze implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules. 
• Coordinate and oversee working relationships with all local project stakeholders and serve as the liaison between them and the project team to mobilize local actors and promote project activities and impact,
• Supervise and perform ad-hoc inspections of various processes and resources at project sites to ensure timely local governance capacity strengthening project activities implementation and adherence to established process standards and procedures. Ensure proper tracking of resource use for project activities through periodic budget reviews and follow-up with, and assistance to the implementing partner.
• Support and coordinate capacity building and technical support to Local government structures and LGA leaders to ensure assigned project activities are implemented per project guidelines and standards. This will include developing program/project documents and tools, as well as technical manuals or guidance, training materials, and quality improvement and assessment guidelines for all local governance capacity building activities.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement in violence prevention, manage training programs for peace clubs, facilitate collaborative solution implementation, and support community-led conflict resolution mechanism development, including logistical and administrative support.
• Ensure project documentation for social cohesion and local governance assigned activities is complete with all required documents and is filed according to agency and donor requirements.Assist with the preparation of trends analysis reports and documentation of case studies and promising practices – including gender equity and social inclusion, and protection success stories and lessons learned.

Required Languages -English is required. Knowledge of Hausa as a second language is appreciated.

Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 60%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Analysis and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound judgment
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented
• Attention to detail, accuracy, and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with partners, participatory action planning, and community engagement.
• Experience in monitoring projects and collecting relevant data.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of the latest technological tools that have the potential to be applied in gender and protection.
• Experience in Nigeria and particularly the Northwest will be a bonus.
• Staff supervision experience is a plus.

Basic Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in international relations, political science, public administration, or a relevant field would be a plus.
• Minimum of four years of work experience in project support, ideally in the field of local governance capacity strengthening and for an NGO.

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 CRS is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP) for an anticipated CDC-funded global childhood immunization project. The project will reach zero- and under-immunized children with immunization services in Northern Nigeria in fragile and conflict settings. Project interventions will focus on: (a) Supporting immunization uptake for polio eradication, measles and rubella reduction and elimination, hepatitis B and maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination; (b) strengthening  surveillance systems to improve preparedness and response to outbreaks of VPDs; (c) establishing global laboratory networks for polio and measles/rubella; (d) planning and implementing supplemental immunization campaigns; and (e) strengthening of immunization delivery systems and capacities. The DCoP will serve as the project’s Senior Technical Advisor, and will provide technical advice, guidance, and support to a wide range of program design and implementation issues on the immunization project in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices. Also, ensures the Country Program (CP) teams the advance delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. The DCoP’s technical knowledge, advice and guidance will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive, and innovative CRS’ immunization programming is across the project. 

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to the project to achieve expected project results within expectations and time frame.
• Serve as key technical liaison to CDC, the states and country government's technical staff, ensuring high levels of coordination, while nurturing relationships with all key stakeholders (including partner organizations at the national and sub-national level) on technical and programmatic matters related to the project.
• Support the CoP in liaising with other implementing partners and stakeholders, to ensure coordination of and harmonization with other relevant immunization prevention, mitigation and response mechanism, private sector engagement, and USG activities globally.
• Ensure results-oriented technical components and high-quality and timely deliverables and reports.
• Oversee implementing partners and advise on technical issues.
• Support the CoP in ensuring the achievement of project deliverables, including ensuring technical report preparation and high-quality timely submission, and ensuring cross-cutting issues are effectively integrated into project implementation.
• Direct preparation of annual work plans, project activity updates, and other project-related communication and reporting materials.
• Support the CoP to represent the project in technical, policy, and programmatic fora at all levels (country, national, and international). Identify lessons learned and best practices for external dissemination.
• Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, WASH and Nutrition activities. 
• Provide technical solutions to project teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in immunization programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculum, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to project staff.
• Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing, and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
• Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Initiative-taking, resourceful and results-oriented.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience providing technical assistance related to infectious diseases and intervention and child immunization highly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of USG framework of addressing childhood immunization in fragile context and familiarity with CDC policy and strategies to address childhood immunizations.
• Experience collaborating and coordinating with local and national host government agencies and aligning program activities and results with national strategies.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities, including technical, management, and evaluation expertise for complex programs in resource-constrained countries.
• Knowledge of and experience with CDC rules and regulations required.
• Strong staff supervision skills and demonstrated ability to coordinate programs with partners from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences; demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong communication skills, including both written and oral presentation skills; proven ability to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse public and private partners.
• Experience building the capacity of national non-government partner organizations to achieve CDC's goal of localization for future funding.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in medicine or public health with concentration in immunization and global health required.
• Minimum of eight years’ relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of five years working for programming interventions in international health programs.
• Experience building the capacity of national non-government partner organizations to achieve CDC's goal of localization for future funding.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks

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As a for Environmental, Social, Health and Safety (ESHS) lead for the infrastructure component of the Advancing Cross-border Resilience and Opportunities for Safety and Stability (ACROSS) Project, you will facilitate the achievement of project objectives through coordinating and reporting all Productive and Social Infrastructure component project activities and providing technical guidance and advice to staff and implementing partner(s) advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. Your coordination and relationship management skills will ensure that the ACROSS project applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate all ESHS functions as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices. This will also include completing project documentation for assigned activities and assisting with identifying information for case studies and reports on promising practices
• Monitor and report any challenges and/or gaps identified to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules. Assist partners in their efforts to reflect on project experiences.
• Support working relationships with all local project stakeholders (at the community level, INGO/NGO, and government) and serve as the liaison between them and the project team to mobilize local actors and promote project activities and impact.
• Supervise and perform ad-hoc inspections of various processes and resources at project sites to ensure timely project activities implementation and adherence to established process standards and procedures. Ensure proper tracking of resource use for project activities through periodic budget reviews and follow-up with, and assistance to the implementing partner.
• Produce technical designs and drawings, structural plans, and bills of quantities for infrastructure projects proposed in the ACROSS project or hire relevant technical specialists to ensure quality. Prepare indicative budgets for all infrastructure works designed.
• Work closely with other relevant project staff to design the Cash-for-Work protocol following community and LGA-level assessments. Work closely with community leaders to identify both skilled and unskilled CFW beneficiaries. Oversee the training of CFW beneficiaries.
• Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and assisting partners in their efforts to collect and analyze project data per specified mechanisms and tools. Collaborate with local partner(s) to prepare reports per the established reporting schedule.
• Collect information on staff capacity needs and technical assistance needs of partner organizations and monitor capacity building and technical support activities to ensure effective impact.

Required Languages - English and Hausa 

Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 60%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Observation, active listening, and analysis skills with the ability to make sound judgment
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners and community members
• Attention to detail, accuracy, and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Experience in monitoring projects and collecting relevant data is preferred.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Familiarity with GIS and GPS technology and Knowledge of CommCare will be added advantages.
• Hands-on experience in development, construction designs/drawings, structural designs, and bills of quantities. Also demonstrated experience using engineering design software for construction or water works (AutoCAD, EPANET, Autodesk Revit, etc.).

Basic Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, architecture, building, or construction management is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in project support, ideally in the field of Construction /Infrastructure management, and two years of experience in developing and implementing infrastructure or community infrastructure projects for development organizations/ an NGO.
• Being registered with professional regulatory bodies or institutions in engineering, construction, or architecture (such as COREN, NSE, NIA, ARCON, COBON, etc.) is an advantage.