Targeting and Verification Officer at Salient Humanitarian Organization (SHO)

Salient Humanitarian Organization (SHO) is an independent humanitarian organization that assists the victims of natural disasters, armed conflicts and exclusion. Its activities are based on the principles of solidarity, justice, human dignity, equality of rights and opportunities, respect for diversity and coexistence, paying special attention to the most vulnerable people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Targeting and Verification Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno (Roving to deep field)
Employment Type: Full-time

General context of the Job / Project

• The candidates selected will work as a core team to carry out beneficiary profiling exercise, which aims to update and refine the list of households and beneficiaries in IDP camps and host community locations through a verification process to account for births and deaths of beneficiary household members, to remove non-valid SCOPE card records, and to account for people who may have left the camps or host communities.
• The Targeting Officer will technically be supervised and supported by the Project coordinator.

Task and Responsibilities

• Participated in community-based preliminary registration, possibly going "door to door" in households, regarding urban areas.
• Form a committee for community registration or targeting and make sure its members are decent representatives of the neighborhood
• Classify households according to their level of vulnerability and ensure that food assistance is targeted to households based on their vulnerability
• Create a community registration/targeting committee to set primary, secondary, and excluding criteria depending on the village context.
• Ensure all the processes are dully recorded and publicly announced to all households within the community
• Training of community targeting committee on how to use targeting criteria.
• Provide the registration format/forms to establish the draft registration master list
• Conducts work with the highest level of integrity
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Project Coordinator.

Essential knowledge and skills

• University Degree in Food Security or Agriculture, Social Science, Economics, Social Works related discipline and at least two years of professional experience in food and cash assistance interventions.
• Prior expertise in targeting and registration activities.
• Understanding local dialects English, Kanuri, Shuwa and Hausa.

Preferred experience:

• Experience in working in Borno State
• evidence of prior work with communities in humanitarian or development contexts for a minimum of Five years.
• Previous experience with GFD, BSFP and Cash Programming for registration actiivties.
• The ability and desire to frequently go to the operating fields of SHO.
• Very good interpersonal skills, particularly in networking, working with communities, local civil society and local authorities.
• Previous experience in using and adapting community-led approaches.
• Proven analytical skills.
• The ability to work under pressure
• Excellent computer knowledge and skills of using Microsoft word, power point and excel.
• Strong organizational and time management skills and capacity to coordinate work across multiple departments.

Brief Condition:

• Salient reserves the right to close the application before deadline, if the required number of candidates is attained.
• Candidates will be responsible for his/her own travel, accommodation and feeding during the recruitment process.

Application Closing Date
11th May, 2023.