Graduate Operations Officers at the Borno State Government Community Agency (World Bank Assisted Project) - 6 Positions

The Government of The Federal Republic of Nigeria has received a credit/loan from World Bank/International Development Association (IDA) towards the Community and Social Development Project (CSDP). The Project Development objective is to increase access of poor people to social and natural resources infrastructure service in a sustainable manner

This will be achieve through the provision of grant support to beneficiary communities based on their identified, prioritized micro projects in the Community Development Plans (CDPs) which are to be implemented, maintained and utilized by them using Community Driven Development (ODD) approach.

In this regard, the Borno State Community and Social Development Agency, invites application from suitably qualified candidates from public and private sectors for recruitment into the position below:

Job Title: Operations Officer

Location: Borno
Slot: 6

Responsibilities

• Sensitise and mobilize communities on CSDP project objectives and activities as well as issues related to HIV/AIDS,
• Facilitate communities to undertake needs assessment and prioritization that are socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable;
• Facilitate communities in the formulation of CDP in line with (b) above;
• Build capacity of the CPMCs and LGRC Desk Officers, as appropriate, through providing training in requisite areas e.g. Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs), record and book-keeping, project management, mainstreaming gender, environment and natural resources issues etc, as identified by the Project officer IEC and Training
• Supervise the implementation of the CDPs to ensure quality assurance;
• Ensure timely replenishment of accounts by the CPMCs;
• Collect, collate and forward to the M&E Department, information/ data on micro-project activities in communities;
• Submission of monthly quarterly and annual departmental reports to M&E Department on schedule, through the Manager; Operations;
• Set monthly and quarterly performance targets based on the work plan;
• Submit regular reports to the Project officer or relevant section for whose activity they are deployed at any point in time.
• Responsible to the Project officer, Supervision.

Qualification and Experience

• A first degree or HND in Engineering, Social Sciences, Biological and Natural Sciences, Business Administration, Accountancy or related field, with at least 1 year post qualification experience in any area.
• Computer literacy and willingness to learn and work extra hours and on week-ends is a must Applicants are not expected to be more than 35 years as at the time of recruitment and not above Grade level 9 if recruited from the civil service.

Conditions of Service
The appointment is for the period of the life of the project with six month probation period. However, Civil servants found suitable will be engaged as seconded officer and will continue to enjoy salary from their employers with additional incentives from the project.

Remuneration
The remuneration is attractive and in commensurate with the mode of entry and in accordance with the CSDP Staff Regulation and conditions of service.

Application Closing Date
1st July, 2016.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to:
The Office of the Honourable Commissioner,
Ministry of Inter-Governmental Affairs and Special Duties,
Musa Usman Secretariat,
Maiduguri,
Borno State.