FSL Officer-CBT-SP at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Action Against Hunger 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 below:

Job Title: FSL Officer-CBT-SP

Location: Monguno, Borno

Job Summary

• The position is based in Monguno, Borno State and directly supervised by the Sector Manager-FSL. The FSL Officer is required to support the implementation of FSL-Cash Based Transfer-Social Protection component and activities of the EU project through participatory selection of vulnerable beneficiaries, cash transfer to selected beneficiaries, follow up and monitoring.
• The aim is to achieve the specific objective of EU project which is to improve nutrition security of conflict affected populations through uptake of critical household health and hygiene behaviors with the aim of providing primary health care, water, livelihoods sources, sanitation and hygiene services.

Task and Responsibilities

• Facilitate community mobilization through social protection activities.
• Work with traditional committees to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable beneficiaries for cash or food voucher support.
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of planned activities.
• Supervise and collect information to ensure the surveillance of the social protection situation in the area of implementation of the program is achieving the expected results when required.
• Supervise and collect required information in the field to facilitate capacity building and training program.
• Support the M&E team in analysis of beneficiary data collection through the various tools.
• Contribute to the development of project community mobilisation strategies for targeting and registration of beneficiaries for the social protection activities.
• Implement sensitisation activities for targeted communities about social protection activities and strengthening livelihood restoration activities with support from relevant State, LGA and community stakeholders, in feasible livelihood restoration activities at LGA level.
• Support in the verification of the beneficiaries to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable population.
• Collaboration with other partners including relevant stakeholders at the assigned local government area.
• Work in collaboration with the communities and local leaders at all stages of project implementation.

Position Requirements

• Degree in Agronomy, Agriculture or any other related fields with minimum of 2 years’ relevant work experience in a similar position.
• Previous experience in managing FSL interventions (i.e. cash based transfer, IGA, agriculture/livelihoods).
• Excellent team, budget, project management and representation competencies.
• Strong organizational and planning skills, report writing and budget oversight.
• Have the capacity to analyze and resolve problems including taking appropriate action.
• Ability to share information in a clear and concise manner and define goals, realistic and specific objectives.
• Capacity to establish priorities in order to achieve expected results.
• Have excellent Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word).
• Be willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in English,Hausa, Kanuri and Fulani.
• Experience in implementing donor programs and activities.

Application Closing Date
28th March, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Advert may close before due date once we receive applications from qualified candidates