Program Support System (PSS) Officer 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: Program Support System (PSS) Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Proposed Start Date: ASAP
Line Manager: Monitoring and Evaluation Deputy Project Manager

Summary

• The PSS Officer's role will be largely limited to the establishment, management and capacity building of local staff on project information system for greater project reporting and overall impact.

Objective 1

• Establishment of an integrated PSS into the AAH projects to ensure compliance with donor objectives and methodology.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Develop and update/pre-test PSS tools for M&E team
• Provide support to the review and development of PSS for new projects, in collaboration with M&E DPM and projects teams at the field level
• Support teams to pilot data collection tools and integrate the findings into the final tools by providing feedback/error reports.
• Facilitate project’s use of mobile data collection by leading on the process and troubleshooting.

Objective 2

• Ensure proper and timely implementation, management and capacity building on PSS

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Provide training to program teams and vendors on PSS.

Objective 3

• Document and promote good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify good practices based on M&E findings and encourage utilization of data.
• Support M&E team to identify lessons learnt and best practices, and produce case studies and human interest stories through collation and analysis of M&E information.

Objective 4

• Represent AAH externally in relevant forums and working groups at State level.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Represent AAH externally in issues related to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and reporting (consortia, alliances and clusters) as needed.

Internal & External Relationships
Internal:

• DPM M&E: Technical hierarchical relationship - exchange of information, collaboration, coordination
• Project Manager: Operational hierarchical relationship– exchange of information, reporting, collaboration, coordination
• Project Officers: Ensure exchange of information, collaboration and coordination.
• M&E Field Assistants: Manage M&E Field Assistants to ensure exchange of information, collaboration and coordination. 
• Other AAH M&E staff: exchange of information, collaboration and coordination

External:

• Governmental and non-governmental partners : Exchange of information, coordination, training, supervision, influence on choice of technical options
• Representatives of international aid organization : Exchange of information
• Representatives of donors : Exchange of information, technical discussions, project related exchanges

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, MIS/PSS or related field. Higher level degree preferred

Skills and Experience
Essentials:

• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive.
• Minimum two years’ experience working with donor funded programming.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office programming (Access, Outlook, Excel, Power Point, and Word).
• Proven ability to create program support systems for large amounts of data within a complex program.
• Knowledge and experience in using database specific software.
• Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills.
• Fluent in English.
• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
• Commitment to AAH mission, values and policy

Preferred:

• Fluent in Hausa, Kanuri and other native languages.
• Previous experience in M&E, PSS of cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers).
• IT troubleshooting capabilities.
• Previous experience with AAH.

Application Closing Date
Tuesday, 15th January, 2019.

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