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Duty Station:     Maiduguri, Borno State

Position Overview:
Following the direction of the Nutrition Program Manager, the Deputy Program Manager (DPM) is responsible for running and supervising nutrition & health activities at all stages of the project management cycle. He/she is also responsible for accomplishing the program objectives and outcomes within the contextual constraints in coordination and synergy with other DPMs. The DPM ensures the Nutrition & Health team completes the defined activities while adhering to internal standards and contractual obligations.
The Nutrition Deputy Program Manager also has responsibilities regarding the capacity building of staff; humanitarian needs identification through needs assessments, monitoring of the evolving situation; context analysis to contribute to the development of future programs and internal coordination

Specific Objectives: 

• Provide support to the Program Manager and the Nutrition specialist to implement the program successfully.
• To establish and supervise the grant’s nutrition (porridge mum components) of the cash transfer program.
• To coordinate activities within ACF, SMOH and between partners in project area.
• To ensure adequate reporting and documentation of all related nutrition activities.
• Training and managing the program team in collaboration with Cash PM and RRE.
• Contribute pro-actively to participate in HR management (including staff career plan development).
• Contribute to the mission’s capitalization and to ACF communication.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or Higher Diploma in Public Health Degree or equivalent in a field related to Nutrition & Health and or training/courses specific to Nutrition and Health in emergency contexts  + minimum 3 years of work experiences.
• Essential Skills and Experience
• Fluent English, Hausa and Kanuri
• Ability to analyse and synthesize information
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible, culturally sensitive.
• Excellent organization, attention to detail, and time management
• Must be disciplined, able to work autonomously
• Strong capacity to represent ACF and sustain relations with state and local stakeholders. 
• Interpersonal skills (team management, communication, reporting, autonomy, pedagogy, planning and organizational skills.
• Experience in working with CMAM and IYCF Complementary feeding programming.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

•  Experience in the International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) and Humanitarian context
• Experience with Social Behavior Change Programming.

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Duty Station:     Maiduguri, Borno State

Position Overview:

• The Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Deputy Program Manager will primarily be responsible for managing and implementing the SIDA funded Project in North-Eastern Nigeria, and will Emergency Assistance for Affected Populations in Borno state, North Eastern Nigeria, 2016-2017. Through early recovery CfW IGA and seed Voucer activities to vulnerable IDP and host community households in order to improve nutrition security and assist livelihoods recovery in Northern Nigeria.
• Specific Objectives: 
• Provide support to the Emergency Program Manager (EPM) in implementing the FFP program.
• Manage the field team within food security & livelihoods sub sector to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence in all FSL interventions.
• Ensure tracking and reporting of technical activities under food security & livelihood subsector.
• Participate in regular internal and external coordination for the program at LGA level and at state level when required.
• Identify program implementation modalities that enhance partnership & coordination with government official and local communities, internal integration within sectors and other programs (Nutrition, WASH, NFIs, etc.)
• Assist the Multi-Sectorial PM in the development of project procurement and work plans of the FSL gardening component of the program.
• Facilitate and support systematic monitoring and evaluation of activities.

Qualifications:

• Degree in FSL related studies e.g. agro-economy, natural resource management, anthropology, etc.
• Minimum two years’ work experience in humanitarian contexts, with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Three years relevant work experience
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in English
• Commitment to ACF missi

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)
• Previous experience with ACF.
• Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
• Fluency in Hausa or Kanuri.