Program Officer at Borno Women Development Initiative (BOWDI)

Borno Women Development Initiative (BOWDI) is a women-led, registered Non-Governmental, Non-Profit Organization with its head office located in Borno State, Nigeria. BOWDI has been active in Humanitarian and Development activities in the Northeast, especially in education, peace-building, advocacy, food security, livelihood, and protection.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Program Officer

Location: Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Details

• Provide technical support for all programme activities, more pertinently, developing TOR and agenda, training, the reporting, documentation, etc.;
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of the annual work-plan and its compliance with the organization strategy document, policies, and Programme Action Plan (CPAP) and other agreement made, e.g., review meetings;
• Review the content of proposed work plan from the field in consultation with the BOWDI.
• Ensure that all programme activities, as detailed in the work-plan, are implemented to the highest standard of quality;
• Provide advice, suggestions, and comments to the Stakeholders at all levels for improvement in the formulation and implementation of BOWDI Programme and stakeholder mapping.
• Submit regular progress report, field visit reports, and ensure that the annual programme progress report and final programme analysis report are prepared and submitted in a timely manner and to the highest standard of quality.
• In coordination with Joint Programme Steering Committee, he/she undertakes on-going participatory appraisal of the performance and progress of the programme, identify bottlenecks, and ensure necessary actions are made in a timely manner to remedy the problem.
• Provide leadership/technical assistance in project implementation with targeted communities and all stakeholders through a strong community-led approach at each project location.
• Facilitate all stakeholder dialogues including community dialogues engaging elders, men, women, and youth to sensitize them against GBV to change their attitudes/behaviour and support ending of GBV with their communities
• Facilitate harmonization, reproduction and dissemination of national guidelines and treatment protocols for life saving procedures with all constituents
• Organize and facilitate capacity building trainings, Focus Group Discussions, (formal/ informal and supportive supervision) of Community Groups (peer groups and advisory), community activists, community volunteers, community stakeholders, partners, Community Trainers-TOT’s, Psychosocial Counsellors, security actors, government partners, Local Governments.
• Supervise the activities of the TOT’s and Community groups and support them to become strong local institutions which are networked with other partners and government to provide leadership in championing rights of women/girls and ending of GBV with their communities.
• Facilitate strengthening of GBV reporting and referral systems and also case management protocols
• Facilitate strengthening of Community-Based Protection Networks and Rescue Services within the targeted locations.
• Lead in Anti-GBV campaign strategies, development of culturally sensitive and appropriate including Information Education Communication-IEC and Behaviour Change Communication-BCC materials on GBV and their strategic dissemination/distribution with key constituents.
• Liaise with the state and country authorities (Ministries of Education/ Health/ Social services gender/ youth) and the Children’s Department and interact positively with development actors/ organizations to ensure that GBV is integrated in all response programmes/ projects of relevant organizations.
• Strengthen networks and partnerships with other organization and actors available to support leveraging of resources for the GBV field programming.
• In collaboration with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer, lead in project monitoring and evaluation in coordination with the project assistants, partners, and communities.
• Prepare standard periodic reports and progress updates on on-going project interventions; weekly, Bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, biannual, and annually.
• Responsible for team management, performance evaluations and appraisals implementation of the agreed work-plan;
• Assume custody of all project equipment, ensure that it is use appropriately and efficiently, and arranging for its transfer upon completion of the project;
• Conduct regular coordination meetings (led by the government officials);
• Take the lead responsibility in following up audit action plan;
• Undertake regular field visits to monitor programme implementation.

Requirements
Competencies:

• Advocacy/advancing a policy-oriented agenda
• Results-based programme development and management
• Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/building strategic alliances and partnerships
• Innovation and marketing of new approaches
• Resource mobilization (Programme).

Corporate Competencies:
Values:

• Integrity/Commitment to mandate
• Knowledge sharing/Continuous learning
• Valuing diversity
• Managing Relationships
• Working in teams
• Communicating information and ideas
• Conflict and self-management
• Working with people
• Empowerment/Developing people/Performance management
• Personal Leadership and Effectiveness
• Analytical and strategic thinking
• Results orientation/Commitment to excellence
• Appropriate and transparent decision making.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Women are strongly encouraged to apply