Program Officer at Godiya Cherished Care For Humanitarian Response Initiative (GCCHRI)

Godiya Cherished Care for Humanitarian Response Initiative (GCCHRI) is a non-profit and a non-governmental organization founded in 2022 by a group of young researchers. Our core mission is to elevate community health standards through a multifaceted approach encompassing research, advocacy, health promotion and education, community development, capacity building, program evaluation, impact assessments, needs analysis, baseline/midline/endline surveys, systems strengthening, and targeted service delivery. Our focus extends particularly to the vulnerable and marginalized populations in Nigeria and beyond.

At Godiya Cherished Care for Humanitarian Response Initiative, we are driven by a deep- seated commitment to addressing the unique challenges faced by underserved communities. With a strategic emphasis on humanitarian principles, we strive to make enduring contributions to the well-being of those in need, fostering resilience, and championing sustainable healthcare solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Program Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Responsibilities

• Provides overall program management during the full project lifecycle by establishing or supporting sound project and program management practices to ensure successful outcomes.
• Contributes to the development and monitoring of project workplans and helps to track project spending.
• Contributes to GCCHRI’s new development.
• Works with a multi-disciplinary team and may serve as the GCCHRI spokesperson on behalf of the project to promote the project goals, achievements, and strengths to key stakeholders.
• As appropriate, supports GCCHRI’s technical workstreams.
• Collaborates with project team on project activities that have a combined program focus.
• Collaborates with other members of the project team to ensure that deliverables meet the needs of intended populations.
• Ensures that the project team draws on state-of-the-art knowledge and practices in the areas specific to the program area.

Key Performance Areas
Technical Assistance:

• Provides technical assistance to offices, governments, local partners, and other agencies by contributing to report reviews; technical reviews; identification and provision of topic-specific technical assistance; and capacity building and working with local partners.
• Reviews and provides input on project reports, data, and progress against project workplans

Project Work Plans and Execution:

• Supports development of and provides oversight of execution on the development of project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities.
• Provide guidance, tools, and resources to manage day to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
• Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
• Enforces organizational standards.
• Ensures all project documentation is complete, current and stored appropriately.

Financial, Resource, and Risk Management:

• Provides oversight on project budgets, conducts monthly financial reviews and analysis to ensure compliance with Pathfinder and client requirements.
• Supports project staff to effectively procure and manage resources, following GCCHRI’s systems and processes.
• Resolves and/or deescalates issues in a timely fashion.
• Facilitates identification of issues and resolutions to mitigate risks.

Project Meetings:

• Holds regular status meetings with project team.
• Ensures multi-directional communication between the project teams and other relevant organizational team members.
• Facilitates team meetings.

Donor Compliance:

• Complies with and helps to enforce standard.
• Policies and procedures, serving as a Trainer of Trainer on GCCHRI rules and regulations.

Communication:

• Delivers engaging, informative, well organized internal and external presentations

Business / Proposal Development:

• Contributes to GCCHRI’s proposals, including responses to competitive bids. Inputs into program designs, staffing plans, workplan and budget alignment, adherence to donor and
• RFA guidelines, as appropriate, and other tasks as assigned.

Quality Assurance:

• Monitor and works with the technical team to ensure that best practices for services and service integration being implemented are well documented, evaluated and poised for scale up.

Partner Management:

• Supports the development of partner agreements, including supporting identification and tracking of deliverables and budgets.

Minimum Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management, Public Health, Business, Marketing, Social Science or related discipline.
• 3 years program management/support experience working in international development, preferably in implementing programs in Nigeria.
• Experience working in international non-profit
• Prefer: Experience in project design
• Prefer: Experience living or working in the Northeast.

Application Closing Date
5th November, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.