Fresh Jobs at Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED)

Position to start:  1st April 2019
Contract Duration: 6 Months

Job Summary

• In light of the displacement in the north eastern part of Nigeria, ACTED has set up an office in Maiduguri to respond to the humanitarian needs. ACTED is therefore looking for qualified staff to support our mission based in Maiduguri.

General Objectives

• Under the supervision of the CCCM Project Manager, the CCCM Protection Officer is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the protection component of the project, including conducting data collection, meetings and mobilizing key project stakeholders, developing protection related materials for community trainings and facilitate trainings, among others.
• He/she will organize focus groups to support him/her in the accomplishment of her daily task and duties.
• He/She will be accountable for the smoothly operation of the protection component of the project, meeting project timelines and targets, in addition to internal capacity building trainings.
• He/ she will be responsible of ensuring protection mainstream standards among the camp services and to monitor the global protection risks in order to provide mitigation solutions.
• He /she will be in charge for referrals of beneficiaries to the appropriate protection partner(s), but not only, and ensure that this mechanism remain efficient and functional after ACTED CCCM responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out daily monitoring visits, focus group discussions, participatory assessments, key informant interviews in accordance with ACTED's information collection and management plans and standards, ensuring appropriate treatment of sensitive information;
• Ensure that mainstream protection is implemented by all agencies and in the whole camp.
• Assess protection issues captured or identified during daily activities and make appropriate referrals for services to humanitarian or other actors as per the referral pathway or best practices;
• Identify cases in need of urgent response and directly follow-up/accompany affected individuals to services providers when needed to ensure access to services;
• Work with supervisor to create weekly work-plans and prioritization of tasks;
• Ensure targets are met under the approved work plans
• Ensure proper documentation and secure storage of any protection data collected (hard and soft copies);
• Complete daily, weekly and monthly reporting on findings.
• Foster and maintain excellent working relationships with all stake-holders, and participate in daily coordination with humanitarian and all other local and international actors;
• Provide trainings and on-job coaching to CCCM team and other agencies personnel as required as well as provide awareness sessions and ad hoc training sessions for camp leaders and community.
• Provide technical and programmatic support to the community mobilizers in the field on a day to day basis
• Provide technical and programmatic leadership to community-based mechanisms
• Support CCCM and partners workers in identification and ensuring that reporting is in line with ACTED, Sector and partners harmonized guidelines.
• Work with community-based structures to identify protection problems that cannot be resolved at community level or by existing services and assist community to come to solutions
• Liaise closely with protection actors in the field and other humanitarian partners to ensure an understanding of the overall issues; an understanding that shall be used to guide weekly work plans
• Take a leading role in setting up the community center- liaising with the community

Qualifications Required

• A University degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Guidance and Counseling or relevant fields.
• Minimum of two years' experience working with vulnerable communities, basic needs and distribution programming experience, and/or advocacy programs.
• Experience in protection interventions in line with vulnerables or IDP operation.
• Experience of working with UN or Non Governmental organizations.
• Good communication skills and ability to conduct training and awareness.
• Computer skills (Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Ability to communicate in English, write reports in English and consolidate the reports prepared by protection monitoring assistants into formal English documentation
• Ability to communicate in Hausa. Other Nigerian languages is a must.
• Good organizational and management skills.
• Willingness and ability to work full time time in the field directly with communities (camp setting and communities in MMC area).

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Position to start: 1st April 2019
Contract Duration: 6 months

Job Summary

• In light of the displacement in the north eastern part of Nigeria, ACTED has set up an office in Maiduguri to respond to the humanitarian needs. ACTED is therefore looking for qualified staff to support our mission based in Maiduguri.

General Objectives

• The Camp Team Leader manages day to day CCCM activities in the site, under the supervision and operational/technical guidance of the Camp Project Manager, including: coordination with humanitarian partner agencies and site administration, communication and liaison with community, service delivery monitoring, information management and oversight of infrastructure maintenance.
• The Camp Team Leader conducts community outreach activities including mobilization, information dissemination, and engagement with community leadership, including chairing or attending any relevant community and humanitarian partners coordination.
• His/her is responsible for implementation of project work plan and effective/timely completion of activities, and for all the tasks specifically assigned to him/her by the Camp Project Manager, ensures regular reporting to the Camp Project Manager, coordination with other CCCM site team members, compliance to ACTED procedures and supports quality of activities delivery to ensure maximum benefit to beneficiaries.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Camp Manager in devising weekly and long-term workplans for the project implementation
• Supervise the activities implemented in the camps under its responsibility in a timely and qualitative manner as well as ensuring their consistency and the coordination in the site.
• Ensure regular follow-ups on weekly and long-term workplans for the project implementation
• Timely Submission of Block Monitoring Reports, Timely submission of meetings minutes and attendance sheets
• Provide inputs for the elaboration of Procurement plans as requested by the camp manager
• Attend regular staff coordination meetings for the site
• Timely reporting on changes to the camp environment including but not limited to security, standards, needs/gaps, influxes, departures or issues in the site to Camp Project Manager (e.g. activities implementation, community liaison, partner service delivery, complaints and feedbacks, site maintenance needs)
• Timely reporting on security incidents, including fire, and any possible security hazards in the site to Camp Project Manager
• Support to Camp Project Manager in identifying areas for improvement and developing site strategy
• Accurate record keeping of project documentation, including photos, as requested by the Camp Project Manager
• Participation in ACTED’s security protocol for camp sites including submitting security clearance forms, getting up-to-date security news from key informants in the local community and conveying to ACTED’s CCCM Manager of any security risks or constraints obtained from the site
• Daily and weekly internal reporting to Camp Project Manager
• Contribution to donor/lead/sector reporting, supporting the Camp Project Manager.

Qualifications Required

• Completion of university degree in Civil Engineering, Humanities, Social Studies, Architecture, Urban Planning or Engineering
• Minimum 3 years of experience in international and/or local NGO; ideally involved in the direct implementation of field level humanitarian assistance to IDPs.
• Experience working in a camp setting
• Previous work with camp management agency
• Technical skills such as Microsoft Office.
• Experience in community services, women empowerment, youth activities, protection, distribution or registration.
• Experience in working with national partners, local/government authorities, and UN organizations

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Position to start: 1st April 2019
Contract Duration: 6 months

Job Summary

• In light of the displacement in the north eastern part of Nigeria, ACTED has set up an office in Maiduguri to respond to the humanitarian needs. ACTED is therefore looking for qualified staff to support our mission based in Maiduguri.

General Objectives

• The Camp Team Leader manages day to day CCCM activities in the site, under the supervision and operational/technical guidance of the Camp Project Manager, including: coordination with humanitarian partner agencies and site administration, communication and liaison with community, service delivery monitoring, information management and oversight of infrastructure maintenance.
• The Camp Team Leader conducts community outreach activities including mobilization, information dissemination, and engagement with community leadership, including chairing or attending any relevant community and humanitarian partners coordination.
• His/her is responsible for implementation of project work plan and effective/timely completion of activities, and for all the tasks specifically assigned to him/her by the Camp Project Manager, ensures regular reporting to the Camp Project Manager, coordination with other CCCM site team members, compliance to ACTED procedures and supports quality of activities delivery to ensure maximum benefit to beneficiaries.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Camp Manager in devising weekly and long-term workplans for the project implementation
• Supervise the activities implemented in the camps under its responsibility in a timely and qualitative manner as well as ensuring their consistency and the coordination in the site.
• Ensure regular follow-ups on weekly and long-term workplans for the project implementation
• Timely Submission of Block Monitoring Reports, Timely submission of meetings minutes and attendance sheets
• Provide inputs for the elaboration of Procurement plans as requested by the camp manager
• Attend regular staff coordination meetings for the site
• Timely reporting on changes to the camp environment including but not limited to security, standards, needs/gaps, influxes, departures or issues in the site to Camp Project Manager (e.g. activities implementation, community liaison, partner service delivery, complaints and feedbacks, site maintenance needs)
• Timely reporting on security incidents, including fire, and any possible security hazards in the site to Camp Project Manager
• Support to Camp Project Manager in identifying areas for improvement and developing site strategy
• Accurate record keeping of project documentation, including photos, as requested by the Camp Project Manager
• Participation in ACTED’s security protocol for camp sites including submitting security clearance forms, getting up-to-date security news from key informants in the local community and conveying to ACTED’s CCCM Manager of any security risks or constraints obtained from the site
• Daily and weekly internal reporting to Camp Project Manager
• Contribution to donor/lead/sector reporting, supporting the Camp Project Manager.

Qualifications Required

• Completion of university degree in Civil Engineering, Humanities, Social Studies, Architecture, Urban Planning or Engineering
• Minimum 3 years of experience in international and/or local NGO; ideally involved in the direct implementation of field level humanitarian assistance to IDPs.
• Experience working in a camp setting
• Previous work with camp management agency
• Technical skills such as Microsoft Office.
• Experience in community services, women empowerment, youth activities, protection, distribution or registration.
• Experience in working with national partners, local/government authorities, and UN organizations

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Position to start:  1st April 2019
Contract Duration: 6 Months

Job Summary

• In light of the displacement in the north eastern part of Nigeria, ACTED has set up an office in Maiduguri to respond to the humanitarian needs. ACTED is therefore looking for qualified staff to support our mission based in Maiduguri.

General Objectives

• Under the supervision of the CCCM Project Manager, The Database Assistant is primarily responsible for all information management activities related to CCCM, under direct supervision of the CCCM PM or CCCM Senior Officer.
• This includes but it is not limited to design data collection tool, conduct data collection, analyse data and produce information products for partners and stakeholders, storage and shared the data, only when strictly necessary and always respecting data confidentiality principles and policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare, compile and sort documents for data entry with necessary validation queries in place
• Design data collection tools and constantly revise them for improvements based on experience, needs and lessons learnt
• Enter data efficiently from source documents into prescribed computer database, files and forms completely and accurately;
• Verify the accuracy of data collected during any data collection exercises and by reviewing data for deficiencies or errors and correcting any incompatibilities if possible;
• Obtain further information for incomplete data from the monitors/enumerators;
• Maintain clean and up to date datasets/databases while removing unnecessary and duplicate datasets;
• Conducting data collection or supervising enumerators/monitors conducting data collection
• Create visual information products for sharing with partners and stakeholders, such as site profiles, info graphics and chart, brief narrative reports summarising data collected and related particularly to service delivery, population movements, CWC activities, risk evictions, community governance and complaints
• Strict compliance to data confidentiality principles and policies during data collection, data storage and data sharing
• Monitoring of service provision by partners at site level in close cooperation with the communities and with partners and stakeholders
• Timely reporting any gaps and/or duplication in service delivery and communities needs emerged by the data collected to the line manager
• Supporting organisation of regular meetings with committee and community representatives’ participation in coordination meetings
• Supporting Communication with Communities activities, especially identifying possible gaps in information flux or possible themes for information campaigns based on data and information collected from the beneficiaries
• Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of activities
• Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, ACTED staff, partner agencies, casual labours)
  

Qualifications Required

• At least 6 months experience in Information Management / administration of data using computers.
• Desirable – working experience in INGOs and/or International Institutions.
• Required - Proficient in Word, Excel, and PPT.
• Ability to use Kobo, ODK, online surveys, InDesign/Publisher
• Other database software would be an added advantage.
• Desirable - Working with highly vulnerable and displaced people would be added advantage.
• Good verbal communication skills in local languages and working knowledge of English
• Ability to maintain good working relationship with colleagues and partners
• Most importantly, commitment to ACTED values and principles
• Accuracy and keen attention to details, in order to produce high quality documents and maintain good data bases.
• Qualification: BA/B.Sc/HND MBA/M.Sc/MA
• Experience: 1 year