Ongoing Recruitment at Godiya Cherished Care for Humanitarian Response Initiative (GCCHRI)

General Purpose of the Position

• IT/Communications officer will support internal and external communications strategy, write and disseminate publicity materials, respond to inquiries from the public during meetings, and coordinate promotional events.

Tasks and Main Responsibilities

• Collaborates with management to develop and implement an effective communications strategy based on our target audience.
• Writes, edits, and distributes content, including publications, press releases, website content, annual reports, speeches, and other marketing material that communicates the organization\'s activities, products and/or services.
• Seeks opportunities to enhance the reputation of the brand, and coordinate publicity events as required.
• Maintains records of media coverage and collate analytics and metrics.
• Manages conflict as it arises and escalate to management.
• Responds to media inquiries, arrange interviews, and act as a spokesperson for the organization.
• Establishes and maintain effective relationships with journalists, and maintain a media database.

Position Requirements
Professional Requirements:

• Bachelor\'s Degree in Communications, ICT, Journalism, or related field.
• Minimum of 3-year relevant experience in a communications role.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, content management systems, and social media platforms.
• Knowledge of desktop publishing software (InDesign/Photoshop).
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

Personal Requirements:

• Innovative and creative
• Excellent communications skills (verbal and written)
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to integrate and adapt to cultures within context
• Excellent networking skills, cultural sensitivity and adaptability
• Understands work from a process point of view and uses measurement and accountability systems effectively.
• Knowledge of NGO and Humanitarian industry
• Computer literacy (MS Excel, MS Word)
• Good organizational skills Ability and willingness to travel between across locations of implementation within LGA
• Good command of written and spoken English, Kanuri and/or Hausa Language
• High degree of negotiation and strong communication skills with ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior members of the humanitarian community as well as with field practitioners.
• Ability to work with a reasonable level of comfort in high tension and high security risk situations.

Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardships

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Summary:

• The Procurement Officer will oversee the acquisition of goods, services, and works in a transparent, cost-effective, and timely manner. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring compliance with procurement regulations, managing vendor relationships, and maintaining accurate procurement records. The role also includes liaising with program and logistics teams to meet project needs and support the smooth delivery of GCCHRI operations.

Responsibilities:

Procurement Planning and Execution:

• Lead the procurement planning process, ensuring alignment with project budgets and timelines.
• Manage the end-to-end procurement process, from issuing requests for quotations (RFQs) to contract award.
• Source, evaluate, and select suppliers based on price, quality, and delivery timelines.
• Negotiate contracts and terms with vendors to ensure the best value for the organization.

Compliance and Documentation:

• Ensure procurement processes comply with organizational policies, donor requirements, and local regulations.
• Prepare and maintain accurate procurement documentation, including purchase orders, contracts, and supplier agreements.
• Ensure timely and transparent communication with stakeholders regarding procurement decisions.
• Manage procurement records and ensure proper documentation for audit purposes.

Vendor and Supplier Management:

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure reliable service delivery.
• Conduct vendor due diligence and evaluate supplier performance based on quality, cost, and delivery.
• Maintain an updated supplier database and ensure competitive procurement practices.

Inventory and Asset Management:

• Work closely with the logistics team to manage inventory levels and track the movement of goods.
• Monitor the delivery and receipt of goods to ensure compliance with procurement orders and specifications.
• Assist in asset management and maintain records of project assets and equipment.

Risk Management:

• Identify potential procurement risks, such as supply chain disruptions or price fluctuations, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Ensure adherence to anti-corruption and anti-fraud measures throughout the procurement process.

Requirements:

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in procurement or supply chain management, preferably in the humanitarian or NGO sector.
• Strong understanding of procurement regulations and best practices.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Certification in procurement (e.g., CIPS, CPSM).
• Experience working with donor-funded projects and familiarity with donor procurement guidelines.
• Knowledge of inventory management systems and asset tracking.

Skills:

• Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time management abilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and procurement management software.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Attention to detail and high level of integrity.

Core Competencies:

• Transparency and ethical conduct in procurement practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Commitment to GCCHRI mission and humanitarian principles

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Job Summary:

• The HR and Admin Officer will be responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and evaluation of the human resources and administrative functions. This includes recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, office administration, and ensuring compliance with organizational policies and procedures. The successful candidate will contribute to fostering a positive work environment and ensure that administrative processes support the effective delivery of humanitarian services.

Responsibilities:

Human Resources:

• Lead recruitment efforts, including job postings, candidate screening, interviewing, and selection processes.
• Oversee onboarding and orientation for new staff members.
• Maintain accurate employee records, including contracts, leave, and performance management documentation.
• Assist in developing and implementing HR policies and procedures.
• Manage employee relations, ensuring compliance with labor laws and organizational policies.
• Support staff development by organizing training and capacity-building initiatives.
• Oversee performance evaluation processes and ensure timely completion of staff appraisals.

Administration:

• Ensure smooth administrative operations, including office management and facilities maintenance.
• Coordinate procurement of office supplies and services in line with organizational policies.
• Maintain proper filing systems, ensuring all administrative documentation is organized and accessible.
• Support logistics and travel arrangements for staff and visitors, including transportation, accommodation, and meetings.
• Handle correspondence, reports, and other administrative tasks as required.

Compliance and Reporting:

• Ensure compliance with local labor laws, tax regulations, and organizational policies.
• Prepare and submit monthly HR and administrative reports to the Operations Manager.
• Manage employee grievances and disciplinary actions in line with HR policies.
• Ensure timely submission of payroll inputs, including timesheets and leave reports.

Requirements:

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in HR and administration, preferably within the humanitarian or NGO sector.
• Strong knowledge of Nigerian labor laws and HR best practices.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Professional certification in HR (e.g., CIPM, SHRM).
• Experience working in a humanitarian context or with an international NGO.
• Familiarity with HR software and payroll systems.

Skills:

• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
• Problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Core Competencies:

• Strong understanding of HR and administrative functions.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills.

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JOB DISCRUPTION

• The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer manages information and reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication about programmatic activities and results.
• The MEAL Officer will also play an important role in improving information management and data quality, and in strengthening knowledge sharing and learning across the organization and with the international health and development communities.
• The MEAL Officer will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of AIHA’s programs, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for all GCCHRI partnerships and projects, as well as for funding proposals.
• Develop the overall framework for project M&E systems in collaboration with donor and senior project staff, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and evaluation surveys; develop and monitor project management plan to systematically document performance.
• Facilitate design of “SMART” objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during annual work-planning process
• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals.
• Contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities.
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions.
• Analyse data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes.
• Aggregate and analyse data from across GCCHRI information platform to contribute to management decision-making and reporting.
• Ensure quality and timely submission of quarterly reports (QRs); manage preparation of additional reports for donors as required.
• Generate monthly indicator reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed.
• Ensure a unified approach to partner self-assessment and programmatic close-out reporting.
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned; and champion the scaling up best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting; provide training as needed.
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting.
• Create and integrate graphics in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way.
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submittal to ensure superior quality and professionalism.
• Coordinate responses to requests for information.
• Contribute to developing and reporting of project reviews, assessments, surveys, and other analytic or evaluation processes and products.
• Support recruiting, interviewing, and training new M&E staff and/or consultants.
• Cultivate and strengthen relationships with local partner organization, donors, private sectors partners, and national authorities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Degree in Statistics, Demographics, Public Health, or International Development preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in the field of monitoring and evaluation
• Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.
• Experience in strategic planning and performance management, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies
• Experience in planning and managing surveys, developing, and refining data collection tools, and with data quality assessments and oversight.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate it effectively to diverse audiences; ability to design and implement efficient workflows and procedures
• Ability to manage critical relationships with diplomacy and tact and engage a wide range of stakeholders including partners, government officials, potential donors, and peer organizations.
• Fluency in English; excellent written and oral communication skills, including facilitation and cross-cultural communication.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational. and time management skills
• Willingness and ability to travel independently domestically.
• Computer proficiency in Windows environment (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and proficiency in online research (e.g., PubMed).

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Job Purpose

• Provides overall program management during the full project lifecycle by establishing or supporting sound project and program management practices to ensure successful outcomes.
•  Contributes to the development and monitoring of project workplans and helps to track project spending.
•  Contributes to GCCHRI’s new development.
•  Works with a multi-disciplinary team and may serve as the GCCHRI spokesperson on behalf of the project to promote the project goals, achievements, and strengths to key stakeholders.
•  As appropriate, supports GCCHRI’s technical workstreams. 
• Collaborates with project team on project activities that have a combined program focus. 
• Collaborates with other members of the project team to ensure that deliverables meet the needs of intended populations. 
• Ensures that the project team draws on state-of-the-art knowledge and practices in the areas specific to the program area.

Key Performance Areas

Major Activities / Responsibilities

Technical Assistance

• Provides technical assistance to offices, governments, local partners, and other agencies by contributing to report reviews; technical reviews; identification and provision of topic-specific technical assistance; and capacity building and working with local partners.
•  Reviews and provides input on project reports, data, and progress against project workplans

Project Work Plans and Execution:

• Supports development of and provides oversight of execution on the development of project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities. 
• Provide guidance, tools, and resources to manage day to-day operational aspects of a project and scope. 
• Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
•  Enforces organizational standards.
•  Ensures all project documentation is complete, current and stored appropriately.

Financial, Resource, and Risk Management

• Provides oversight on project budgets, conducts monthly financial reviews and analysis to ensure compliance with Pathfinder and client requirements. 
• Supports project staff to effectively procure and manage resources, following GCCHRI’s systems and processes.
•  Resolves and/or deescalates issues in a timely fashion.
• Facilitates identification of issues and resolutions to mitigate risks.

Project Meetings

• Holds regular status meetings with project team.
• Ensures multi-directional communication between the project teams and other relevant organizational team members.
• Facilitates team meetings.

Donor Compliance

• Complies with and helps to enforce standard.
• Policies and procedures, serving as a Trainer of Trainer on GCCHRI rules and regulations.

Communication

• Delivers engaging, informative, well organized internal and external presentations

Business/Proposal Development

• Contributes to GCCHRI’s proposals, including responses to competitive bids. Inputs into program designs, staffing plans, workplan and budget alignment, adherence to donor and
• RFA guidelines, as appropriate, and other tasks as assigned.

Quality Assurance

• Monitor and works with the technical team to ensure that best practices for services and service integration being implemented are well documented, evaluated and poised for scale up.

Partner Management

• Supports the development of partner agreements, including supporting identification and tracking of deliverables and budgets.

Minimum Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in management, public health, business, marketing, social science or related discipline.
• 5 years program management/support experience working in international development, preferably in implementing programs in Nigeria.
• Experience working in international non-profit
• Prefer: Experience in project design
• Prefer: Experience living or working in the Northeast part of the country and understanding of program context, field realities, and technical needs.
• Community Relations: Intermediate skills in facilitating working relationships between project teams, donors, partners, government officials, and communities.

Competencies/Attributes:

 Minimally Required Job-specific Competencies

• Program Operations and Development: Intermediate skills in implementing and managing global health program operations in the developing world.
• Proposal Development: Basic skills in project management-related tasks within proposal development from concept to full proposal.
• Leadership: Advanced skills as a leader in program or project management as part of health and health service delivery strengthening in developing countries.
• Program and Project Planning and Management: Intermediate skills in program and project management and planning to fulfill performance objectives, including the timely implementation, and reporting of donor funded program activities.
• Operations and Financial Management: Basic knowledge of operations and financial management in developing countries.
• Change Leadership: Ability to demonstrate a high degree of flexibility in managing change across a broad group of stakeholders in an inclusive manner.
• Presentation Skills: Ability to make presentations on results and products to diverse stakeholder groups.
• Minimally Required Organizational Competencies:
• Software Applications: Advanced knowledge of MS Office products, including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• SGVB ADVOCACY: commitment to SGVB gender based violence.
• Communication: Advanced oral and written communication skills.
• Languages: Advanced writing and speaking skills using Hausa and English language.
• Project Planning and Management: Advanced skills in project planning, coordination, monitoring and management.
• CRM: Advanced CRM Customer service skills.
• Organization, Planning and Multi-tasking: Advanced organizational and planning skills, project planning and project management skills. 
• Proven ability to set priorities: meet deadlines and multi-task with minimal supervision.
• Self-Management and Teamwork: Ability to work independently or as a member of the team, ability to be detailed-oriented, and ability to manage stress.
• Global and Cultural Effectiveness: Ability to communicate, collaborate with diverse stakeholders and achieve operational outcomes.
• Matrix Management: Ability to thrive in a matrixed organization.
• Confidentiality: Proven ability to maintain confidentiality on work-related issues.

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Position Overview:

• The Finance Officer (FO) will responsible for accounting, monitoring, controlling, managing, funds and budgets at the local level.
• The FO will ensure all project expenses align with Project Agreements, maintain accounts according to GCCHRI policies and donor obligations, and support internal controls and financial procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in overseeing NHF funds and budgets.
• Ensure compliance with donor contractual obligations and GCCHRI policies.
• Record all financial transactions (bank, cash, accruals) according to GCCHRI policies.
• Maintain inventory of office equipment and fixed assets.
• Manage payments, ensuring accuracy and appropriateness of invoices.
• Ensure timely entry of accounting operations into QUICKBOOKS.
• Disseminate finance procedures and anti-corruption policies to branches and project staff.
• Produce accurate and timely financial reports.
• Manage advances to staff and ensure proper documentation and classification of financial documents.

Requirements:
Essential:

• Degree in Finance/Accounts or equivalent experience.
• ACA/MBA/CA, ICAN, ANAN, or equivalent is a plus.

Competencies:

• Minimum of three years of relevant experience in financial management and accounting.
• Strong technical experience in bookkeeping, accounting, and financial management.
• Understanding of accounting issues in the charity/NGO sector.

Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation skills.
• Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other relevant software.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, attention to detail, and self-motivation.
• Team player with initiative and training/mentoring skills.

Values:

• Integrity and accountability.
• Commitment to GCCHRI’s mission.
• Embrace cultural diversity and change.
• Strong commitment to results.