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

Action Against Hunger | ACF International is an international humanitarian organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

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

Location: Damaturu, Yobe

Job Description:

Summary of Key Objectives:

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

Qualifications & Essential Skills:
Essential

• 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)
• 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:
21st August 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV together with their Cover Letter as an email attachment to the following email address 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, 21st August 2014 will not be considered.