Program Quality and Accountability (PQA) Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Action Against Hunger | ACF International is an international humanitarian organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Program Quality and Accountability (PQA) Officer

Location: Dutse, Jigawa

Job Description:
The Program Quality and Accountability (PQA) Officer will play a key role in implementing the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) funded by the UK Department for International Development, a joint project being implemented by Save the Children UK (SC) and Action Against Hunger (ACF). From 2013-2017, CDGP will provide 60,000 pregnant women and mothers with children under two with unconditional cash transfers and nutrition behaviour change communication training.

Summary of Key Objectives:

• Assist in establishment of PQA system into the CDGP to ensure compliance with donor objectives and methodology.
• Ensure proper and timely implementation of PQA tools and all monitoring and evaluation reporting.
• Document good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities
• Represent ACF externally in relevant forums and working groups

Qualifications & Essential Skills:
Preferred

• Bachelor degree in science, social science, research, statistics or demography or related field. Higher level degree and/or significant M&E expertise preferred.
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive
• Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills
• Proven ability to translate evaluated results into learning strategies.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
• Skills on statistical and other software (MS Excel, SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.)
• Fluency in Hausa and English
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)
• Experience in humanitarian PQA or M & E.
• Experience in designing and leading internal and external evaluation.
• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
• Familiarity with Management Information Systems (Databases) and GIS.

Essential

• Previous working experience in Northern Nigeria
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)
• Previous experience with social protection programming.

Application Closing Date:
Sunday, 16th August 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV together with their Cover Letter as an email attachment to the following email address to: [email protected] Applicants should indicate in the subject title of their forwarding mail, the title of the position they are applying for.

Note: Please do not attach your certificates to the application email. Any application received after Sunday, 16th August 2014 will not be considered.