Action Against Hunger Current Employment in Borno

Action Against Hunger | ACF-International works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy.



Job Title: Human Resources Officer

Location Borno

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Head of Base, the HR Officer will support the HR Department in ensuring that National staff are recruited, developed and managed in a strategic, proactive manner to ensure the mission’s human resource requirements for programs and support positions; National staff benefits, data and information administration are carried out effectively, in close coordination with supervisors/managers and administrators at all bases, to ensure smooth delivery of internal services to employees; the management team is supported with all administrative tasks related to both national and international staff.

Specific Objectives:

•    Oversee the base’s recruitment process
•    Ensure proper contract administration for all staff
•    Oversee the processing of employee’s salary and benefits
•    Support in the mission’s capacity building and career development
•    Supervise and manage staff under your responsibility  
•    Provide overall support to the HR Department

Qualifications:

•    Bachelor’s degree in fields related to HR, Administration and Management; masters’ degree a plus

Essential Skills and Experience:

•    3+ years’ experience working in HR and/or administrative support positions
•    Understanding of national labor law and employment norms and practices
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills
•    Approachable, diplomatic, able to work effectively in diverse, cross-cultural teams in a complex, multi-site work environment
•    Computer literacy including all Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook)
•    Excellent attention to detail, highly organized, rigorous, self-motivated, strong sense of responsibility, ability to work independently
•    Able to maintain confidentiality
•    Capacity for analysis, synthesis and reporting of large amounts of information

Preferred Skills and Experience:

•    Previous experience working for INGOs an asset, particularly health related INGOs
•    Fluency in one or more National/regional languages an asset


Job Title: Community Mobilization Field Assistant

Location Borno

Position Overview:

The Community Mobilization Supervisor will primarily be responsible for assisting the implementation of community mobilization in all the projects including WSAH, Nutrition and food security and livelihoods to provide IDP and vulnerable host households with all relevant information, trainings and orientations related to the projects in assigned LGA and nutrition behavior change communication training in a bid to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria..

Specific Objectives:

•    Provide support to ACF’s community mobilization supervisor to implement mobilization activities in ACF program in Maiduguri at LGA level.
•    Manage community mobilization field teams within sector to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence in all ACF mobilization, trainings and IEC material Building.
•    Ensure tracking and reporting of activities under community mobilization of all sector (FSL, WASH and Nutrition).
•    Participate in regular internal and external coordination for the program at LGA level and at state level when required.
Qualifications:
•    Degree in FSL or wash, nut related studies e.g. agro-economy, natural resource management, anthropology, public health engineering, nutrition etc.
•    Minimum one year’ 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 representation competencies
•    Previous experience with Community Mobilization programming.
•    one year relevant work experience
•    Microsoft Office Skills
•    Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
•    Fluency in local languages

Preferred Skills and Experience:

•    Previous experience of mobilization in different interventions (i.e. cash transfers, wash, Nutrition)
•    Previous experience with ACF
•    Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
•    Fluency in Hausa or Kanoori


Job Title: Cash Supervisor

Location Borno

Position Overview:

The Cash Supervisor will play a key role in implementing the PROTECT IDP response in Borno State in North-Eastern Nigeria. ACF is implementing a multi-sectoral emergency response program to support IDPs in settlement and camps, and most vulnerable host households in a bid to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria.

Specific Objectives:

1.       Provide support to the Deputy Program Manager to implement the program successfully.
2.       Facilitate program coordination and monitoring and evaluation of the FSL activities.
3.       Facilitate community mobilization activities to support targeting and registration of beneficiaries and improve FSL/Cash Base Interventions knowledge, attitudes and practices
4.       Represent ACF externally in relevant LGA level forums and technical working groups
5.       Ensure the proper HR management of the field based Cash team

Qualifications:

·         Degreein Accountancy and food security related field e.g.Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies etc.
Essential Skills and Experience:
·         Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
·         Previous experience with Cash, food security and livelihoods programming.
·         Three years relevant work experience
·         Capacity to supervise a team
·         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 Hausa, Kanoori and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills
·         Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy

Preferred Skills and Experience:

·         Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy
·         Previous donor programming experience (e.g. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA)
·         Analytical capacity
·         Good knowledge of  techniques and agricultural/animal health production systems



How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their application by email to recruitment.ng@acf-international.orgor in person to the following addresses:

Plot No.69 Crescent,6th Avenue,Gwarinpa, Abuja FCT
079, Unguwar Kasarau Yamma, Dutse, Jigawa State
No. 195/196, Don Etebet Housing Estate, Damaturu, Yobe State
96 West North, Damboa Road GRA, Behind Indimi House, Damboa Road, Maiduguri, Borno State
To be considered, applications must include a CV and letter of interest, and indicate the full position title in the email subject line, or on the application envelope.  Applications received without these specifications will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, no phone calls or follow-ups will be entertained.

Qualified women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.


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