Food Security Livelihoods (FSL) Deputy Program Manager (DPM) at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

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.

Action Against Hunger is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Food Security Livelihoods (FSL) Deputy Program Manager (DPM)

Location: Damaturu, Yobe

Job Description:
The Food Security Livelihoods (FSL) Deputy Program Manager will support in implementing the Improving food access and nutrition for vulnerable displaced and host population in Yobe State, in Northern Nigeria. This program aims to provide cash and/or vouchers to the IDPs and host communities to provide immediate access to food.

Summary of Key Objectives:

• Provide support to ACF’s FSL Program Manager to implement the program successfully, harmonizing and developing technical approach, and ensuring that the technical standards, guidelines and methodologies developed are applied.
• Manage the food security and livelihoods field team to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence in all FSL interventions.
• Ensure tracking and reporting of technical activities under the food security and livelihood sector.
• Recruitment, capacity building and coaching of field staff within food security and livelihood sector.
• Provide support to FSL Coordinator to implement FSL strategy.

Qualifications & Essential Skills

• Degree in FSL related studies e.g. agro-economy, natural resource management, anthropology, etc.
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Three years relevant work experience
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in Hausa and English
• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy

Preferred

• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)
• Previous experience with ACF
• Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities

Application Closing Date
Sunday, 9th November, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's together with their Cover Letters as an email attachment 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, 9th November 2014 will not be considered.