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ROLE PURPOSE

• The Information Management/Monitoring and Evaluation assistant is to support the implementation of the Beiersdorf Project in the context of Adamawa State, north-eastern Nigeria.
• The purpose of this role is to provide timely, accurate information on project implementation and ensure that monitoring and evaluation are in line with specific project FAD/donor requirements.
• The role’s support is to achieve accountability, transparency and program quality in project locations.
• The post holder is to ensure that project activities are in line with the Logical Framework and relevant guidelines.

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE

• Communicates with the Project Coordinator, M&E Manager and across Plan International, and field level implementing partners.
• The post holder will support the establishment of a systematic Information Management system.
• The post holder will interface and support program team members and program coordinator.
• The role requires strong facilitation and organizational skills along with the ability to analyse and communicate complex information to all staff, partners and other stakeholders.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

In collaboration with the Project Coordinator and other relevant staff, the information management assistant will:

• Ensure the information on the physical case files registered under case management are safely and accurately synchronized into the Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS+) database, and exported from CPIMS on a regular basis;
• Managing and maintaining the CPIMS database to the level of high-quality standard;
• Report results of M&E activities by providing written documentation about progress toward achieving indicators/targets, as appropriate
• Ensure regular update of project’s data on the Country PMERL system and share reports with project team
• Support to ensure that M&E-specific elements of local partner capacity strengthening plans are successfully implemented
• Ensure high-quality implementation, in close collaboration with the Field based team, sector Specialists and the M&E coordinator, and consistency in protocols, information and reporting systems
• Support efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping
• Utilize the training data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning
• Support targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits
• Support to ensure that relevant data are entered into organization-wide data management system designed to capture, analyse, and disseminate project data
• Support field level partners staff, community-based project management committee (CBPMC) and enumerators in designing, developing and deploying tools for community-based selection criteria for the selection of beneficiaries.
• Support the production information and knowledge management products for the project
• Provide support in ensuring facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing.
• Support the documentation of the outcomes of trainings, workshops, meetings and events.
• Perform any other support functions as directed by the project coordinator/M&E Manager

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in public health, computer science, statistics or any related field.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in information management or monitoring and evaluation role
• Excellent command of the use of Microsoft office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power BI, etc)
• Prior experience working with CPIMS is an added advantage
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, research, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation is also an added advantage
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyse data using one or more statistical software packages (SPSS, STATA, R, etc)
• Excellent English language writing and speaking skills, ability to speak Hausa is an added advantage
• Ability to identify diverse, relevant external actors to work with and understand the purpose and implications of working with them
• Ability to work collaboratively with others
• Ability to organize ideas in a logical and structured manner.
• Ability to prioritize workload and manage multiple tasks and deadlines

Behaviours:

• Creates strong sense of purpose and commitment within own part of the team and with stakeholders
• Holds self and others to account to deliver on agreed goals and standards of behaviour
• Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism/integrity
• Strategic thinking and effective contribution to own work and Organisational development.
• Sound judgement and decision-making in complex situations
• Strong emotional intelligence including self-awareness.
• Leads by example to motivate high performance of others
• Very strong commitment to continuous learning

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ROLE PURPOSE

• The Security Assistant will be responsible for the assessments, security related guidance and enforce implementation of security policies, guidelines and procedures for the Humanitarian Response Program with the support of the Safety and Security Manager.

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE

• This will involve, but is not limited to: promoting a culture of security; security incident reporting; security guard oversight and management; monitoring and analysing the security situation in the states of humanitarian response, supporting the development and implementation of Security related Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) in Borno field offices.
• The scope of responsibility is for both Plan International and all authorised visitors.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Programme development & Quality Management

• Regular attendance at relevant security meetings and forums for the North East 
• Report on security incidents/threats to Security Manager/Security officer as the case may be on a regular basis (including analysis of trends) and focal persons at the deep field level
• Attending security meeting at deep field levels at Pulka
• Effective networking with the military in the deep field
• Managing and maintaining effective use of security communication equipment in Pulka
• Performing location assessment Pulka
• Managing and facilitating staff/partners’ movements from Maiduguri to Pulka
• Supporting visitors with post arrival briefing in the location
• Working closely with field coordinator and community mobilization officer to drive acceptance of Plan International programme activities in Pulka
• Tactically resolving youth and community conflict that could trigger into security incident
• Providing pre-alert to Security manager/Officer in Maiduguri on prospective security issues
• Ensure general staff safety and security in Pulka
• Deploy occasional step-down training
• Gathering sensitive information and intelligence in the location for security Manager’s/officer’s use
• Ensure compliance of all SoPs such as movement SoP, curfew SoP, staff relation-community SoP, grievance SoP
• Providing weekly situation report for the security Manager in Maiduguri
• Providing monthly incident report to Maiduguri
• Managing security information and communication effectively
• Drive hibernation and relocation when the context changes
• Continuously suggest safety and security infrastructure required for the location according to the emerging threat
• Manage and supervise guard force in the location
• Ensure effective access management into Plan office and premises
• Obtain daily travel report affecting Plan International staff in their location of duty
• Any other duty that may be assigned by the Security Manager/Officer

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Strong knowledge and experience in occupational security and health & safety operations
• Ability to prioritise and manage complex and varied workloads, often to tight deadlines, in a dynamic, fragile and multi-cultural setting
• Ability to guide staff with limited security capacity
• Ability to predict and respond to security threats/incidents
• Strong diplomatic, interpersonal, and trouble-shooting skills including negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders
• Energetic and motivated individual, with a proven track record of undertaking similar assignments
• Strategic and critical skills - but also focused on operational results and ‘getting things done’
• Commitment to continuous learning; willingness to keep abreast of new developments in security
• Able to work independently but also collaborate closely within teams
• Ability to establish and sustain strong working relationships with Plan colleagues and in the broader Nigeria community/context
• Culturally and socially sensitive

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Role Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to have an experienced Livelihoods Officer in income generating activities (IGA), Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) and Cash Based Transfer (CBT) for the WFP livelihood project.
• The officer will be in charge of the livelihood components of the project and all that is related to economic empowerment of the target beneficiaries.

Dimensions of the Role

• The Livelihood officer will be responsible for the livelihood activities of the project, this includes VSLA, CBT and IGA.

Accountabilities

• Oversee the beneficiary selection for the livelihood component.
• Supervise the cash distribution, success of VSLA groups and ensure the IGA component is sustainable.
• Facilitate the cash distribution and ensure there is protection of all beneficiaries at the distribution point is not compromised.
• Collect information on government units and partners that are into economic empowerment and small-scale business and share with the project coordinator
• Supervise the community assistants that work on IGA, VSLA and CBT
• Report all areas of the livelihood activities to the project coordinators and link up with livelihood specialist through the coordinator for any support.
• Design the techniques of improving project delivery on IGA, VSLA and CBT.
• Develop the capacity of the team on livelihood activities
• Contribute to overall reports of livelihood project.
• Design and follow up a local value chain of CBT, VSLA and IGA and see how the project beneficiary will benefit from it.
• Support market development on selected IGA of the beneficiaries in the target area.
• Submit weekly report to the project coordinator
• Contribute to the final project report.
• Any other assignment from the livelihood coordinators or his/her delegate.

Dealing with Problems:

• Excellent risk-assessment and management is required to support decisions that may require overcoming attitudinal, systemic and physical barriers.
• The post-holder will make rapid assessments of situations and then make judgements for the organisation on strategic choices and action often with inadequate information.
• The job requires decisions to be made on the basis of assumption and experience, as little hard information will be available. Decisions need to be context specific and there will often be no precedents to draw upon.
• Management judgement will be required to negotiate and influence COs’ Plan teams to take steps to respond in ways that may be new or worrisome in contexts that are stressful to all involved.
• Decisions may affect the lives of thousands of disaster affected children, millions of dollars, security of staff, and the profile of Plan across the humanitarian sector and across media.

Technical Experties, Skills and Knowledge

Qualifications and Technical Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Business Management, Home Economics, Entrepreneurship Development.
• Experience in working in deep field location.
• Good knowledge of vocational studies, ability to train on knitting, soap making, tailoring and other vocational studies.
• Knowledge and experience in M&E.
• Experience with participatory learning approaches.
• Experience of conducting assessments in emergency contexts.
• Experience of training on relevant crop production.
• Fluency in English and Hausa, written and spoken.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Ability to work independently and as a team player who demonstrates leadership and is able to support and train local and international staff and also able to work with disaster affected communities in a sensitive and participatory manner.
• Excellent negotiation, representation, skills and the ability to work comfortably with an ethnically diverse staff in a very sensitive environment.
• Strong organizational and work prioritization skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work cooperatively.
• Proven ability to solve problems independently without direct supervision.
• Good facilitation skills and ability to deliver induction briefing/training.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels, and to maintain this under pressure.
• Ability to work with limited supervision from line manager.

Behaviours:

• Commitment and adherence to humanitarian values and standards.
• Focussed and striving for the delivery of programme.
• Cross-culturally agile
• Aware of own strengths, weaknesses and pro-active in using feedback and self-development.
• Aware of impact on others and uses impact to create positive climate at work
• Works with trustworthiness and integrity and has a clear commitment to Plan International’s core values and humanitarian principles.
• Resilience/Adaptability and flexibility: Ability to operate effectively under extreme circumstances including stress, high security risks and harsh living conditions. Works and lives with a flexible, adaptable and resilient manner.
• Awareness and sensitivity of self and others: demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to gender and diversity. Have experience and the ability to live and work in diverse cultural contexts in a culturally appropriate manner.
• Has a capacity to make accurate self-assessment particularly in high stress and high security contexts.
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive under pressure.
• Preparedness to live and work in uncertain security environments.
• Experience working in conflict or emergency-affected areas (or other situations where insecurity and corruption can be big issues).

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Role Purpose

• The scope registration assistant will serve as the technical focal point for SCOPE-related activities and oversee the implementation of the WFP-funded scope registration exercise.
• S/he will liaise closely with the scope registrars to ensure the smooth registration of beneficiaries and the issuance of scope cards to enrolees.
• The SCOPE registration assistant will be the overall supervisor of the scope registration team and will be responsible for field management, coordination, and regular monitoring of the project in all areas of operation.

Dimensions of the Role

• Communicates with the Food/cash distribution officers, Project Coordinator, Program Manager, Nutrition Sector Specialist, SCOPE Registrars, and WFP SCOPE team.
• The post holder(s) will support the identification and enrolment of target beneficiaries.
• The post holder will interface and support a team of SCOPE Registrars to facilitate the process.
• The role requires strong facilitation and organizational skills along with the ability to analyze and communicate complex information to all staff, partners, and other stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Represent Plan in WFP Coordination meetings as necessary.
• Liaise closely with WFP Office regarding Scope registration, project implementation that requires SCOPE technical support.
• Promote a positive profile of the program and good understanding among other sectors, partners, and communities about the Scope registration.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders – WFP, Community support groups, community leaders, IOM, and NGOs, to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination.
• Supervise the Scope Registration Team and provide appropriate guidance and oversight as they conduct daily field activities.
• Plan and follow the activities of the Scope project such as voluntary returnees’ registration and distribution of Scope cards during enrolment for GFD/BSFP and Livelihood projects.
• Facilitate the training of Scope project staff on Scope online/offline system focusing on efficient planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of the project activities.
• Participate actively in the monitoring of the project in collaboration with the M&E Officer with specific attention on the efficiency of the WFP Livelihood, BSFP, GFD etc
• In collaboration with the Food/cash distribution officers ensures Plan International’s participation in the after-action review of the current project and identify potential development for Plan International in GFD and BSFP.
• Prepare and submit all Scope project internal and external donor reports
• Draft scope budget including spending plans, procurement plans, and work plans based on activities and budgets.

Technical Experties, Skills and Knowledge

Essential:

• Bachelor's Degree / HND / OND or equivalent preferably in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Nutrition, Agriculture or other relevant discipline and evidence of NYSC discharge certificate
• Experience as SCOPE registration assistant with an INGO partner.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Strong ability to work independently, organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks, and maintain attention to detail.
• Community mobilization skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills, creativity and flexibility
• Works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure well.
• Languages: Excellent command of English language and Hausa.

Desirable:

• Managing UNWFP-funded projects is preferable.
• Experience in working on "In-kind Distributions" projects is preferable.
• Strong communication skills: oral, written and presentation skills.
• Strong leadership, team building, conflict resolution and ability to deliver PLAN’s strategic objectives.
• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations
• Facilitate the development and scheduling of volunteer outreach activities

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Role Purpose

• The Nutrition Officer is responsible to ensure that the nutrition activities including BSFP are functioning properly, providing quality care to all targeted beneficiaries, and respecting protocols and principles of good practice.

Dimensions of the Role

• The nutrition officer will lead the implementation of Nutrition activities including BSFP activities in LGA. Liaising with government ministries offices and bureaus at LGAs levels.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with organizational and statutory policies and laws on People and Culture legality matters and also has the responsibility to ensure compliance with the design and implementation of emergency/recovery and resilience-focused nutrition responses in line with applicable government policies, guidelines, and procedures.

Accountabilities

Plan and organize BSFP at designated distribution sites in liaison with the project coordinator:

• Work with LGA officials to ensure all aspects of the program are understood and agreements signed by all partner bodies
• Ensure the collection of all relevant background information on the area has been amassed prior to project implementation
• Complete order forms for logistics for both materials and estimated medicine & food requirements for each site in advance, plus confirm transport schedule
• Conduct screening in targeted areas to collect total beneficiary figures and confirm/amend log requests as necessary.
• Schedule the distribution plan with the LGA and Wards administrative and health officials.
• Work with the community nutrition mobilizers, and ensure the engagement of community leaders, key community figures, and community groups.
• Work with community nutrition mobilizers to improve their ability to recognize signs of malnutrition, provide appropriate education to beneficiaries to help prevent Micro Nutrient deficiency, on Optimal IYCF, and refer individuals as appropriate.
• Teach community nutrition mobilizers how to disseminate key education messages within their communities and propagate messaging through other community channels.
• Ensure appropriate referrals take place to and from other MoH-supported CMAM sites.
• Ensure cases not meeting admission criteria understand why their child is not admitted.
• Supervise the activities of the SFP team at the distribution points.
• Ensure all SFP team members are familiar with their posts.
• Re-define team composition as necessary – either during distributions (to avoid bottle-necks) or after discussion during team meetings.
• Work closely with the teams to ensure all children are screened for malnutrition correctly.
• Ensure all criteria are respected and understood by the teams, including admission, discharge, and transfer to and from the various components of the CMAM programme.
• Ensure comprehensive health checks and treatment according to the agreed protocols.
• Monitor supplementary feeding rations and ensure they are distributed fairly and equally between beneficiaries.
• Facilitate cooking demonstrations using locally available food.
• Review the forms completed by staff to ensure completion, accuracy, and coherence.
• Undertake individual evaluations with the team.
• Ensure adequate availability of supplementary food supplies for each distribution, input into the creation and maintenance of a monthly distribution plan, and ensure stock is pre-positioned as planned with the project coordinator and logistics team.
• Submit weekly reports including tally forms for the SFP statistics for each site.
• Report any progress and any problems in a timely manner.
• Through liaison with the community mobilizers, provide effective follow-up of all cases - particularly:
• Ensure the prompt tracing of children who are absent from the program.
• Request specific children to be followed up as required (newly enrolled children, sick children, children not gaining weight, children with social problems, etc.).

Liaise with the community mobilizers to ensure comprehensive community outreach and mobilization, health education, and treatment. Check that all messages to carers, community groups, leaders, and authorities are consistent and fully understood:

• Respect the dignity of the beneficiaries, carers, and members of the community
• Perform any other duty that may be assigned from time to time

Technical Experties, Skills and Knowledge

Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in a discipline such as Nutrition, Food Science, Nursing, Public Health, or any other relevant discipline, and/or a Diploma in Nursing with at least 3 years of experience in the field of nutrition at the community level.
• Previous experience in a related position for at least 2 years, including managing BSFP & Nutrition projects.
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Hausa.
• Commitment to and understanding of PLAN’S aims, values, and principles.
• Applicants from Yobe State are encouraged to apply

Desirable:

• Managing UNWFP-funded projects is preferable.
• Experience in working on “In-kind Distributions” projects is preferable.
• Strong communication skills: oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Strong leadership, team building, conflict resolution, and ability to deliver PLAN’s strategic objectives.
• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations
• Facilitate the development and scheduling of volunteer outreach activities