Fresh Jobs at SOS Children Villages

Job Summary

• The WASH officer is responsible for facilitating and ensuring the timely delivery of WASH activities in collaboration with project staff, WASH coordinators, and the project operation standard procedure (SOP).
• The post holder is responsible for implementing WASH activities at the response sites and liaising with the local government and the field office team.
• The WASH officer is also responsible for ensuring the WASH humanitarian needs and gaps are assessed adequately such as prevention and controlling WASH actions such as water trucking operation, WASH non-food item (NFI) distribution, water treatment chemicals, rehabilitate/maintenance, leading the preparation of WASH integrated response plans and provide technical support on Hygiene and Sanitation promotion activity.

Responsibilities
Emergency Response:

• Rapid Needs Assessment: Conduct quick assessments to identify WASH needs in emergency-affected areas (water access, sanitation, hygiene practices)
• WASH Planning and Implementation: Develop and implement WASH plans, covering water supply, sanitation infrastructure, and hygiene promotion
• Coordination: Collaborate with local authorities, NGOs, and stakeholders for effective WASH interventions
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Track impact and evaluate effectiveness of WASH interventions to ensure responsiveness to community needs

Technical Expertise:

• Water Quality and Safety: Ensure the safety and quality of water sources and distribution systems
• Sanitation and Hygiene: Promote sanitation and hygiene practices (e.g., handwashing, menstrual hygiene, waste disposal)
• Infrastructure: Supervise construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of WASH infrastructure such as water points, latrines, and handwashing stations
• Hygiene Promotion: Lead hygiene awareness campaigns and training sessions for communities

Logistics and Supply Chain:

• Procurement: Oversee timely procurement and distribution of WASH materials and equipment
• Logistics: Manage transport, storage, and distribution processes for WASH-related supplies

Capacity Building:

• Community Mobilization: Engage and mobilize communities in WASH-related activities
• Training: Deliver training for local staff and community members on WASH best practices

Data Confidentiality & Safeguarding:

• Understand and enforce principles of data confidentiality
• Ensure all tasks are aligned with the organization's Safeguarding Policy Implementation

Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in public health, environmental science, engineering, Psychology, Social work, Community Development, or a related field
• A Project Management Professional (PMP) certification would be an added advantage

Experience:

• Minimum of 1 year experience in WASH programming, particularly in emergency
• contexts
• Understanding of child development issues, including knowledge of child rights, child protection, child welfare, childcare and parenting; and relevant local and national laws, regulations and protocols

Skills:

• Strong technical knowledge in water, sanitation, and hygiene
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under pressure and in challenging environments
• Experience in community mobilization and capacity building

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Position Summary

• The Livelihood Officer will provide technical and programmatic support to crisis-affected families and communities to design and implement sustainable, community-based livelihood initiatives.
• The role focuses on promoting employment opportunities, enhancing vocational skills, and supporting income-generating activities to reduce vulnerabilities and
  build resilience.
• He/She will work closely with caregivers, youth, and young adults to strengthen their livelihood capacity, enabling sustainable income generation and self-reliance even in emergency contexts.
• Priority will be given to interventions that deliver immediate or short-
  term improvements in household socio-economic well-being, while laying the foundation for longer-term recovery and resilience.

Responsibilities

• The livelihood officer will give Priority attention to interventions that would have immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic wellbeing, aiming to reduce their vulnerability; e.g. access to start-up support for job creation, access to low-interest loans for micro-business development, individual skills training, targeted vocational or entrepreneurship training, job placement, internship, business expansion support, etc.
• Support families to identify ‘gaps’ in attaining self-reliance while linking it to the keys to self-reliance based on the development needs of each child within their care
• Support families to establish set goals, milestones with timelines and develop actionable plans to achieve the defined set goals to address the identified gaps
• Ensure that the organisation keeps its commitments, in terms of support services committed to in the FDPs action plans;
• Empower families to have improved household income to actively support the development of their children and be self-reliant
• Support young adults and caregivers in setting up viable small-medium scale businesses with good business plans and link them to other funding sources for business scaling-up and expansion
• Implement skills-based innovative sustainable livelihood community initiatives that have a direct and immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic activities, aiming to reduce the family’s vulnerability and increase their chances of being self-reliant
• Identify weaknesses and strengths in the livelihoods activities and map the best way forward to enhance strengths and mitigate adverse impacts or weaknesses;
• Ensure gatekeeping and case management guidelines are followed in providing specifically tailored interventions targeted at supporting families to attain self-reliance
• Conduct activities in a community- and rights-based, participatory manner, maintaining an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD), and conflict-sensitive approach for community engagement
• Ensure timely and quality progress and financial reporting by partners in line with agreed templates and schedules
• Monitor programme implementation of partners (contractors, consultants, grantees) in accordance with agreements, work plans, deliverables, and timelines
• Carry out regular reviews of the situation of the families and the support provided to them by the programme
• Contribute to the realisation of sustainable income generation for families to provide quality care and protection for their children

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Agriculture, Business Administration,
  Development Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field (Master’s degree is an advantage).
• Minimum of 1 year experience in emergency response programming and working with vulnerable populations.
• Knowledge of market systems development, micro-enterprise, and vocational training approaches.
• Familiarity with donor-funded projects and humanitarian standards.
• Strong project design, implementation, and monitoring skills.
• Excellent facilitation, training, and community mobilization abilities.
• Competence in conducting needs assessments and market analysis.
• Good communication, negotiation, and partnership-building skills.
• Ability to manage data, prepare reports, and ensure accountability.
• Computer literacy (MS Office, data collection/analysis tools).
• Commitment to humanitarian principles, child safeguarding, and protection standards.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and analytical thinking.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-sectoral team.
• High cultural sensitivity, empathy, and inclusiveness.
• Flexibility, resilience, and capacity to adapt to rapidly changing emergency contexts

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Position Summary

• The MHPSS Coordinator will lead the planning, implementation, and supervision of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions within SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria’s humanitarian and emergency response project.
• The role ensures that children, young people, families, and communities affected by crises receive quality, evidence- based, and culturally appropriate psychosocial care in line with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) MHPSS Guidelines and SOS Children’s Villages’ child care and protection framework.
• The Coordinator will work closely with child protection, education, health, and livelihood teams to ensure an integrated and holistic response.

Responsibilities
Programme Leadership and Coordination:

• Lead the design, implementation, and scale-up of MHPSS activities within the humanitarian project.
• Ensure MHPSS interventions, such as Psychosocial First Aid (PFA), Problem Management Plus (PM+), Team Up, Referrals Pathways to clinical services, and other structured individual and group support activities are in line with international standards (IASC Guidelines, Sphere Standards, WHO mhGAP).
• Integrate child-focused MHPSS activities and relevant care approaches such as Trauma-informed Care, Child-friendly Spaces, Child Safeguarding and Protection and Caregiver Support Groups into the emergency response.
• Coordinate MHPSS activities across project sites, ensuring consistency and quality of interventions.
• Represent SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria in MHPSS and Protection cluster meetings, inter-agency working groups, and donor forums.

Capacity Building and Supervision:

• Train and supervise SOS MHPSS Hub Members, Lay Counsellors, Social Workers, and Volunteers in evidence-based interventions (e.g., Problem Management Plus, Psychological First Aid, TeamUp).
• Provide technical supervision and mentoring to trained MHPSS Field Workers delivering group-based and individual psychosocial interventions.
• Facilitate self-care and well-being initiatives for frontline workers to reduce burnout and secondary trauma.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, Social Work, Mental Health, Public Health, or related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• Minimum of 3 years experience in MHPSS programming, with at least 2 years in humanitarian or emergency response.
• Strong knowledge of IASC Guidelines on MHPSS in Emergency Settings and humanitarian standards.
• Experience in program design, coordination, and implementation in crisis-affected contexts.
• Proven track record in capacity building, training, and technical support.
• Strong program management, coordination, and organizational skills.
• Excellent facilitation, training, and mentoring abilities.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and advocacy skills with diverse stakeholders.
• Proficiency in monitoring, evaluation, and reporting tools.
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing emergency contexts.
• Commitment to child safeguarding, protection, and humanitarian principles.
• High emotional intelligence, empathy, and cultural sensitivity.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to foster collaboration in multi-sectoral responses.
• Resilience, flexibility, and ability to work in challenging environments.

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Position Summary

• The Child Protection Officer is accountable for professional technical contribution to project design, planning, administration, monitoring and evaluation of Child Protection programme/project activities during the crisis, data analysis and progress reporting, in support of achievement of planned objectives of the emergency work plan, aligned with country programme goals and strategy

Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability of accurate, complete and up-to-date information required for effective Child Protection programme and project design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation.
• Draft sound Child Protection programme budgets for review by the supervisor; and provide support for sharing of information with relevant partners.
• Prepare weekly activity plans with line staff as necessary and ensure smooth implementation of these plans.
• Set up/strengthen Child Protection Committees, including training and awareness raising on dangers of abduction in their communities and linking children to available services.
• Monitor and assess the implementation of the program, ensuring that case workers are using the case management forms consistently and correctly.
• Ensure all data from the case management are kept confidential and only shared on a need to know bases and in accordance with case management protocols.
• Representation of SOS Children’s Villages as necessary at community level and negotiate with local authorities when necessary.
• Perform other functions relative to Child Protection activities and initiatives that may be assigned by Line Manager.
• Coordinate with Logistics to ensure timely and safe delivery of supplies allocated to field activities.
• Uphold the SOS Children’s Villages Child Safeguarding Policy and ensure the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse in the workplace and communities of intervention.
• Identify gaps in service provision to children and proactively document, refer and advocate for those gaps to be filled to relevant authorities
• He/she will closely work with the child protection stakeholders to ensure that they are addressing child protection concerns within their respective communities.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• University degree in social sciences or relevant experience in social work, community development and working with children in Child Protection programme
• Minimum of 1 year sectoral experience
• A Project Management Professional (PMP) certification would be an added advantage.
• Good English oral and written communication skills
• Fluent in a local language
• Experience in community facilitation and mobilisation
• Good understanding of community politics and traditional networks in program
  location.
• Excellent technical understanding of child protection and community-based
  approaches.
• Good computer knowledge and skills.
• Be able to prioritise tasks
• Flexibility and ability to work independently and in a team
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Able to operate in extremely harsh living and working environment
• Gender awareness and sensitivity
• Commitment to the aims and principles of SOS Children’s Villages. In particular, a good understanding of the SOS Children’s Villages mandate on child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support