Social Safety Net Senior Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Action Against Hunger is the world’s hunger specialist and leader in a global movement that aims to end life-threatening hunger for good within our lifetimes. For 40 years, the humanitarian and development organization has been on the front lines, treating and preventing hunger across nearly 50 countries. It served more than 21 million people in 2018 alone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Social Safety Net Senior Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full Time
Programmes: FSL
Reporting to: Programme Manager
Proposed start date: January 2025

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct mapping and selection of the most vulnerable groups, ensuring that women, girls, and other marginalized groups are prioritized;
• Assist in implementing cash transfers, social protection interventions as per program guidelines;
• Work closely with government officials, local leaders, and communities to ensure alignment with community needs and project goals;
• Collaborate with the Ministry of Education to conduct mass campaigns and link educational support with economic recovery activities. Provide scholarships to vulnerable children, particularly girls, and link them with other project components like literacy training;
• Support in the rehabilitation of community assets through labor-intensive activities, ensuring that selected households are supported with cash transfers;
• Support the implementation of monthly conditional cash transfers for vulnerable households, with a focus on encouraging behavioral changes that improving household resilience;
• Coordinate emergency cash or voucher assistance for households in the event of unforeseen disasters, ensuring adherence to gender and protection standards;
• Ensure adherence to Action Against Hunger technical guidelines and monitor the implementation of all social protection and safety net activities;
• Contribute to organizational learning by documenting lessons learned and best practices. Prepare internal and external reports, including case studies and success stories related to the project;
• Support systematic monitoring and evaluation of all activities, ensuring that data is accurate, up-to-date, and accessible for stakeholders;
• Contribute to the compilation of monthly social protection and safety nets technical reports with an overview of activities on economic empowerment of the social protection income generation activities area of the program, contextual updates and quantitative indicator follow-up;
• Collect data and support documentation for internal and external reporting on social protection activities;
• Support in follow up on logistics requirements in coordination with the procurement officer and Log manager;
• Ensure that all program-related data and information on social protection and safety nets component of the program is correct, updated, organized and accessible to other key stakeholders, and that lessons learnt and best practice are documented;
• Support development of activities progress reports for the social protection and safety nets team as well as contribute to the development of donor reports;
• Support integration efforts of social protection activities with other sectors by providing necessary information and coordinating with project teams;
• Engage constructively with LGA authorities, traditional and religious leaders, and other stakeholders to ensure effective project implementation;
• Incorporate climate resilience into social protection activities, fostering sustainable solutions in the emergency-development nexus;
• Communicate performance standards, provide feedback, and support the professional development of team members;
• Contribute to the professional development and improvement of team members by providing support;
• Communicate Action Against Hunger performance standards and expectations to Assistants which includes; 10 minutes monthly conversation, 3 months/end of probation performance appraisal and annual/ end of contract appraisal;
• Establish performance objectives, provide feedback, and identify strengths and areas for professional improvement.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Education and Education related courses, Economics, Business Management/ Administration, and any other related field of study;
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in implementing CVA and Social Protection related interventions;  
• Thorough knowledge of social protection and cash transfer programming;
• Strong communication skills and experience in team support;
• Humanitarian experience, particularly in advocacy and dissemination of information;
• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including government officials and local communities.

Application Closing Date
12th November, 2024.

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