Job Vacancies at The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Main Responsibilities:

• Supports the coordination of ICRC/Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) RFL activities in the different regions
• and the implementation of RFL activities in Abuja
• In charge of office-based tasks, such as reporting, filing, submitting and reconciling expense reports, corresponding with the teams on the field
• Receives visits and phone enquiries from the beneficiaries and respond to them
• Supports the team in field work, when needed, which entails traveling within the area of responsibility, sometimes for several days
• Participates in the preparation and logistics of RFL trainings held by ICRC and NRCS
• Raises Requisition Orders to purchase the items needed for field activities
• Interviews beneficiaries for RFL purposes and documents cases
• Responsible for the management of the stock and dispatch of dissemination material
• Helps maintain regular contact with the beneficiaries with periodical follow-up by phone and visits

Required Qualifications:

• University degree or specialized training;
• 2 years work experience in humanitarian work;
• Very good command of written and spoken English, and spoken Hausa; Kanuri and/or French are an asset;
• Very good computer skills, in particular with Excel, Word, if possible PowerPoint;
• Good knowledge of Nigerian geography.

Personal Attributes:

• Good analytical skills;
• Detail-orientation and precision;
• Very good writing and reporting skills;
• Capacity to work within a team;
• Good inter-personal skills: ability to deal with people respectfully and showing empathy towards others, very good communication skills;
• Committed to work and able to work under supervision or independently as required;
• Able to work under pressure; flexible and open to extra working hours if necessary;
• Capacity to learn and to adapt to new work methods;
• Discretion and confidentiality, self-control;
• Aptitude for applying and ensuring compliance with ICRC directives and procedures.
• Very well organized, with good planning abilities

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Main Responsibilities:

• Support the team in follow up of basic administrative procedures: payment, correspondence, hand over and donation certificates;
• Update list of retention periods and expiry dates for all water and habitat projects
• Ensure that all relevant documents for contracts (Requisition orders, Purchase Orders, contracts, amendments, and selection tablets) are available, archived and shared with all staff concerned.
• Assist Water and Habitat staff to retire invoices and clear the cash advance;
• Collect data of project beneficiaries from engineers in change, compile and submit to Team Leader
• Ensures information flow within the department
• Organizes Water and Habitat department internal weekly meeting with inputs of the Team Leader, prepares and share lists of action points for follow-up
• Compiles contributions to the Weekly Operational Report and submit to the Team Leader

Required Qualifications:

• Higher diploma in accounting and/or technical certificate in secretariat or equivalent training
• 1-2 years in same experience
• Good computer skills
• Good command of written and spoken English

Personal Attributes:

• High capacity to work in a team.
• High motivation and proactivity, taking responsibility
• Good Planning and Organization skills
• Very good communication skills