Cash Transfer Supervisor 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Cash Transfer Supervisor

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Job Description

• The Cash Supervisor will directly report to Cash Deputy Program Manager will play a key role in implementing the PROJECT IDP response in Maiduguri State (LGA) in North-Eastern Nigeria.
• From May to December 2015, ACF will implement 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.

Summary of Key Objectives

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

Qualifications; Essential Skills & Experience

• Degree in Accountancy and food security related field e.g. Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies etc.
• Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive.
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies.
• 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.

Preferred:

• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers).
• Previous team management and activity planning experience.
• Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy.
• Previous experience with ACF.
• Previous donor programming experience (e.g. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA).
• Analytical capacity.
• Good relational qualities.
• Good knowledge of techniques and agricultural/animal health production systems.
• Good knowledge of implementing projects.
• Capacity to write high quality reports.

Application Closing Date
Sunday, 31st May, 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's together with their Cover Letter 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 the closing date will not be considered.