Work location: Dutse, Jigawa State
Key Responsibilities:

Mission 1: Lead the coordination and implementation of social protection program

• Lead the team in directly implementing the SP component of the FCDO project and ensure all project deliverables are achieved with sufficient quality and in a timely manner.
• Lead the design and development of social protection programs aligned with state and national strategies.
• Oversee detailed planning and implementation of activities in collaboration of activities with government stakeholders
• Ensure program quality and adherence to program objectives, including respect of ACF technical guidelines, systems, and established deadlines.
• Integrate gender, disability inclusion, and climate resilience into social protection initiatives
• Support program budget design and updates; oversee budget monitoring and cash projections.
• Supervise the annual program procurement plan, and monitor monthly progress.
• Support the targeting, identification and enumeration of vulnerable HHs into the State and Nation social register
• Ensure a sound phase out strategy for the SP program.

Mission 2:  Manage the program field team to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence.

• Supervise, review and lead technical assessments, surveys, design and MEAL
• Approve and support and development of project procurement plan and work plans.
• Conduct regular field visits, advice and provide regular technical support to government stakeholders, and CSOs
• Ensure harmonization of program operating plans and protocols across the consortium, review tools and approaches, and ensure that technical standards, guidelines, and methodologies are communicated and understood in coordination with the consortium lead’s technical advisors.
• Recruit, evaluate, and coach program staff.
• Support in developing technical FSL/SP documents and reports before dissemination to partners.
• Review BFUs and prepare financial forecasts on regular basis.

Mission 3:  Tracking and reporting of technical activities

• Compile monthly program technical reports with an overview of activities and contextual updates and quantitative indicator follow up.
• Review reports and gauge program progress against logical framework, ensuring compliance with ACF internal and consortium reporting standards
• Review program budget follow-up with the Finance Coordinator to ensure adherence to work plan.
• Validate procurement requests before submission to the logistics department.
• Follow up logistics requirements in coordination with the Logistics HOD.
• Ensure that all program related data and information is correct, updated, organized and accessible to the country program, HQ, and other key stakeholders, and that lessons learnt and best practices are documented.

Mission 4:  Management responsibilities

• Support the recruitment, capacity building and coaching of field staff
• Support in the development of job descriptions and recruitment of consultants and technical personnel as needed.
• Evaluate direct reports as per the defined AAH performance evaluation schedule.
• Provide individual coaching of and training of SP personnel to improve any identified areas of weakness or capacity gap.

Mission 5:  Participate in regular internal and external coordination for the program and the wider social protection sector at Federal and State levels

• Coordinate with ACF and Partner to ensure a common approach and sharing of information.
• Represent ACF with Federal, State, and local authorities, partners and other program stakeholders including the lead NGO, external research team and various experts.
• Represent ACF Nigeria in the monthly Technical Working Group
• Undertake additional coordination as requested by the FSL HOD

Position Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Economics, Social Sciences, or another related field or A master’s degree in international development, Humanitarian Assistance, Rural Development, Food and Nutrition Policy, Economics or related field.
• 4 years’ experience in humanitarian or development contexts, with at least 1 year managing or coordinating a social protection or safety nets project in a similar context.
• Familiar with FCDO funded grants and budget management.
• Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills in English.
• Team management, budget management and representation experience.
• Qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills, oral and written communications, and MS Office.
• Experience in assessment, monitoring and evaluation.
• Familiarity with statistical or data collection and analysis software preferably.
• Strong understanding of social protection systems, including policy frameworks, delivery mechanisms, and targeting strategies.
• Experience working with government counterparts and donor-funded projects.

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Key Responsibilities:
Mission 1: Provide support to the FSL Programme Manager in the implementation of BHA Food Assistance and other livelihood activities in targeted communities within the given LGAs

• Contribute to detailed planning and provide remote support to the implementation of field-level activities relating to the cash-based food assistance under the guidance of the FSL Program Manager.
• Develop guidelines and strategies for engaging community leaders and other relevant stakeholders to support the identification and selection of vulnerable communities and beneficiaries for cash or food voucher support.
• Support the identification, contracting, and management of vendors through regular engagement, documentation of vendors’ activities, and provision of timely support throughout the FIFSAN project.
• Coordinate closely with the FSL Programme Manager to ensure that cross-LGA programs are implemented efficiently.
• Follow-ups on program activities to ensure that FIFSAN program objectives and outputs are achieved, and that activities are implemented in accordance with standard rules, regulations, and operational procedures, as well as agreed-upon strategies, implementation plans, and requirements.

Mission 2: Facilitate the collection and collation of information and BNF data for FIFSAN activities through registrations, surveys, assessments, and regular post-distribution monitoring.

• Remotely supervise the collection and management of beneficiary data and distribution lists to support the successful implementation of FIFSAN program activities.
• Train ACF data collectors and partners’ staff on the collection and management of beneficiaries’ data, distribution list for reference purposes, and successful implementation of FIFSAN program activities.
• Coordinate monthly market assessment, data collection, and analysis for food assistant price determination.
• Facilitate in coordination with the M&E unit and implementing partners, data sourcing and analysis to improve program approaches based on evidence.
• Coordinate with implementing partners to collect relevant information that contributes to organizational and sector-wide Learning through proper documentation of lessons learned, best practices, success stories, case studies, etc., on the cash-based intervention in the emergency and early recovery context.
• Support the planning and capacity building training of partners and oversee regular program monitoring and evaluation activities, like Baseline, PDMs, Market Price Monitoring, end line, etc., in collaboration with relevant units/departments.
• Collaborate with the FSL Programme Manager on the development of tools to monitor and improve the quality of the FIFSAN Project.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the FSL Programme Manager

Mission 3: Participate in Regular internal and external coordination meetings for the program.

• Contribute to the development of the project’s community mobilisation strategies for targeting and registration of beneficiaries in collaboration technical team.
• Collaborate with implementing partners to develop and strengthen good linkages and coordination with local government, government line agencies, related stakeholders, and service providers to ensure their support for the implementation of project activities.
• Coordinate with supply chain and finance to facilitate timely vendor payment. Review and reconcile the vendor’s printout and transaction summary.
• Conduct vendor training and follow up closely with implementing partners on disbursement monitoring of vendors’ activities to ensure beneficiaries are not shortchanged.
• Contribute to the establishment of effective  communication mechanisms with key stakeholders at the LGA and Ward levels
• Maintain and build relationships with authorities, partners, and relevant actors in all the intervention LGAs of Borno State on behalf of ACF.

Mission 4: Support the FSL Programme Manager in reporting on Project activities and progress.

• Support the FSL Programme Manager in reporting for internal and external use through draft reports with inputs and outputs for the reporting period ;
• Support the program Manager in producing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports;
• Extract data and information from weekly reports from the field and aggregate the same for inclusion in the monthly and quarterly reports.
• Work with M&E under the direction of the FSL PM to ensure that all annexes needed for the report are available.

Mission 5: Ensure the proper HR management of the Field-Based FSL Team

• Support the recruitment and training of enumerators under the support of the FSL Program Manager, MEAL Manager, Project Coordinator, and Base HR.
• Participate in training and development of implementing partners and propose and/or provide training, coaching, and mentoring as required.
• Manage the daily activities of ACF enumerators to ensure the smooth implementation of the FSL program in line with HR procedures and policies.
• In collaboration with the HR department, ensure support to the field teams for all matters concerning human resources for program implementation.
• Work with the implementing partners’ FSL team in different LGAs on cross-learning and beneficiary capacity building initiatives.

Position Requirements:

• Degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, and other related fields.
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in implementing food security and livelihood projects
• Experience in supervising or managing a team
• Good knowledge of Agriculture, FSL, Cash and Voucher Programming, including implementing projects in humanitarian and insecure contexts
• Good communication, including fluency in Hausa or Kanuri  and English Languages
• Advantage for those with experience in Advocacy & dissemination of information on innovation.

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