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ACTED has been committed since 1993, to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED, headquartered in Paris, France is present in four continents and our teams intervene in 37 countries towards 14 million people, responding to emergency situations, supporting rehabilitation projects and accompanying the dynamics of development. Over 5,000 staff are dedicated to implementing and developing our projects.

General Food Distribution (GFD) Team Leader

Description

  • In light of the displacement in the north-eastern part of Nigeria, ACTED has set up an office in Monguno to respond to the humanitarian needs
  • ACTED is therefore looking for a General Food Distribution Team Lead to support its mission in [Monguno].

About the Job

  • The General Food Distribution Team Lead’s primary function is to ensure the quality of the planning, implementation and follow up on all aspects of the Food Distribution activities being implemented by ACTED.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

General Programming & Operations:

  • Ensure efficient and Effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan.
  • To formulate and implement capacity building plans for field teams and individuals. Provide training to ensure field teams are able to carry out their duties.
  • Manage field teams.
  • Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/ reports and proposals and budgets for donors.
  • Mobilization of beneficiary communities to maintain the established/rehabilitated/protected Food Distribution Locations.
  • Lead the food distribution team in carrying out monitoring and evaluation exercises.

Coordination and Representation:

  • Collaborate with relevant Internal and External technical experts on FOOD DISTRIBUTION issues.
  • Support the Food Distribution Program Manager by attending FOOD DISTRIBUTION meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings as needed
  • Ensure integration of FOOD DISTRIBUTION activities with other ACTED sectors.
  • Coordinate with Food Distribution counterparts in other locations in the implementation of common funded projects.
  • Actively participate in internal coordination meeting.

Project Development:

  • Develop project plans and budgets for funding
  • Develop the projects’ M&E tools
  • Project implementation and reporting
  • Ensure management of FOOD DISTRIBUTION project grants through budget control.
  • Monitor and Evaluate FOOD DISTRIBUTION Projects.
  • Ensure quality control during implementation of FOOD DISTRIBUTION activities in accordance to International and National standards.
  • Prepare FOOD DISTRIBUTION weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports to relevant authorities as per need.

Staff Management:

  • Supervise FOOD DISTRIBUTION Assistants.
  • Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the FOOD DISTRIBUTION staff members and community based mechanisms in operational areas as needed.
  • Develop staff performance measurement and targets for the FOOD DISTRIBUTION assistants and appraise them based on the set targets.
  • Conduct daily field visits or as required to ensure FOOD DISTRIBUTION tasks are going on as planned and mentoring – through technical back stopping and training of duty bearers.

Logistics / Finance:

  • Support the Senior FOOD DISTRIBUTION Officer and Manager to monitor financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-ups.
  • Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas.
  • Initiate procurements and ensure their execution.
  • Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with logistics in a timely manner.
  • Contribute to grants management of all FOOD DISTRIBUTION projects through management of day to day project expenditures.

About You
All employees should master ACTED’s core Principles: Independence, Neutrality, Non-discrimination, free and direct access to victims, Ethics, Professionalism, anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability
Moreover, we also expect the following:

Essential:

  • Minimum of one year working in humanitarian responses
  • University Degree in Economics or any other Social Sciences, preferably with additional training on Food Security and Livelihoods
  • At least 2 years of experience in a similar role
  • Previous working experience in humanitarian assistance program and urban planning an advantage
  • Previous working experience in North East Nigeria an advantage

Desirable:

  • Excellent time management skills
  • Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility
  • Prior experience working in IDP displacement locations
  • Fluency written and spoken fluency in English and Hausa a must; additional fluency in Kanuri preferred
  • Ability to work independently

We Offer

  • Contract length: 3 Months
  • Level: D1-1 (national contract)
  • Start Date: As soon as possible Desirable.

Method of Application

Note

  • ACTED considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability
  • CV will be review on rolling bases.
  • Due to the large numbers of expected applicants ACTED will only inform shortlisted candidate. We apologise for the inconvenience. Only short-listed applicants will be invited for written test and oral interview.

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  • Job City Borno State
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ACTED (French: Agence d'Aide à la Coopération Technique Et au Développement), formerly 'Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development', is a French humaniarian NGO set up in 1993. It is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit organization committed to supporting vulnerable populations across the world. ACTED’s teams take action in 35 countries, responding to emergency situations, supporting rehabilitation projects and accompanying the dynamics of development. ACTED develops more than 450 projects a year towards 8 million people, with a €160 million budget. The organization employs more than 400 international staff and over 4300 national staff. It is the second largest French NGO. The headquarters are based in Paris, France.

Approach and commitment

ACTED teams are devoted to supporting vulnerable communities throughout the world and accompanying them in building a better future by providing a response adapted to specific needs. By ensuring the link between Emergency, Rehabilitation and Development, ACTED’s teams guarantee that interventions made in a situation of crisis are useful and sustainable, because only long term support – by remaining in the area post emergency and involving communities – can end the poverty cycle and accompany populations on the road to development.

ACTED’s teams on the field are implementing more than 450 projects in those fields: responding to emergencies and building disaster resilience, food security, health promotion, education and training, promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, economic development, microfinance, institutional support and regional dialogue, cultural promotion.

With its experience working closely with vulnerable communities at the heart of situations that they live in throughout the world, ACTED contributes to reaching the Sustainable development goals (SDGs) and is engaged in the definition of the sustainable development goals, advocating for an integrated approach, co-construction and global partnership.

In association with several French, European and International partners, ACTED is committed to promoting and developing innovative approaches and initiatives, humanitarian principles, new forms of solidarity and convergences between private and public actors and NGOs from the North and the South covering themes such as aid efficiency and transparency, evaluation, information and coordination of humanitarian emergencies, promotion of local governance and civil society strengthening, sustainable access to income and microfinance, prevention and reduction of catastrophes, the link between development aid, sustainable development and social business, food security, etc.

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0 USD Borno State CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED)

ACTED has been committed since 1993, to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED, headquartered in Paris, France is present in four continents and our teams intervene in 37 countries towards 14 million people, responding to emergency situations, supporting rehabilitation projects and accompanying the dynamics of development. Over 5,000 staff are dedicated to implementing and developing our projects.

General Food Distribution (GFD) Team Leader

Description

  • In light of the displacement in the north-eastern part of Nigeria, ACTED has set up an office in Monguno to respond to the humanitarian needs
  • ACTED is therefore looking for a General Food Distribution Team Lead to support its mission in [Monguno].

About the Job

  • The General Food Distribution Team Lead’s primary function is to ensure the quality of the planning, implementation and follow up on all aspects of the Food Distribution activities being implemented by ACTED.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:General Programming & Operations:

  • Ensure efficient and Effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan.
  • To formulate and implement capacity building plans for field teams and individuals. Provide training to ensure field teams are able to carry out their duties.
  • Manage field teams.
  • Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/ reports and proposals and budgets for donors.
  • Mobilization of beneficiary communities to maintain the established/rehabilitated/protected Food Distribution Locations.
  • Lead the food distribution team in carrying out monitoring and evaluation exercises.

Coordination and Representation:

  • Collaborate with relevant Internal and External technical experts on FOOD DISTRIBUTION issues.
  • Support the Food Distribution Program Manager by attending FOOD DISTRIBUTION meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings as needed
  • Ensure integration of FOOD DISTRIBUTION activities with other ACTED sectors.
  • Coordinate with Food Distribution counterparts in other locations in the implementation of common funded projects.
  • Actively participate in internal coordination meeting.

Project Development:

  • Develop project plans and budgets for funding
  • Develop the projects’ M&E tools
  • Project implementation and reporting
  • Ensure management of FOOD DISTRIBUTION project grants through budget control.
  • Monitor and Evaluate FOOD DISTRIBUTION Projects.
  • Ensure quality control during implementation of FOOD DISTRIBUTION activities in accordance to International and National standards.
  • Prepare FOOD DISTRIBUTION weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports to relevant authorities as per need.

Staff Management:

  • Supervise FOOD DISTRIBUTION Assistants.
  • Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the FOOD DISTRIBUTION staff members and community based mechanisms in operational areas as needed.
  • Develop staff performance measurement and targets for the FOOD DISTRIBUTION assistants and appraise them based on the set targets.
  • Conduct daily field visits or as required to ensure FOOD DISTRIBUTION tasks are going on as planned and mentoring - through technical back stopping and training of duty bearers.

Logistics / Finance:

  • Support the Senior FOOD DISTRIBUTION Officer and Manager to monitor financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-ups.
  • Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas.
  • Initiate procurements and ensure their execution.
  • Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with logistics in a timely manner.
  • Contribute to grants management of all FOOD DISTRIBUTION projects through management of day to day project expenditures.

About You All employees should master ACTED's core Principles: Independence, Neutrality, Non-discrimination, free and direct access to victims, Ethics, Professionalism, anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability Moreover, we also expect the following:Essential:

  • Minimum of one year working in humanitarian responses
  • University Degree in Economics or any other Social Sciences, preferably with additional training on Food Security and Livelihoods
  • At least 2 years of experience in a similar role
  • Previous working experience in humanitarian assistance program and urban planning an advantage
  • Previous working experience in North East Nigeria an advantage

Desirable:

  • Excellent time management skills
  • Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility
  • Prior experience working in IDP displacement locations
  • Fluency written and spoken fluency in English and Hausa a must; additional fluency in Kanuri preferred
  • Ability to work independently

We Offer

  • Contract length: 3 Months
  • Level: D1-1 (national contract)
  • Start Date: As soon as possible Desirable.

Method of Application

Note

  • ACTED considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability
  • CV will be review on rolling bases.
  • Due to the large numbers of expected applicants ACTED will only inform shortlisted candidate. We apologise for the inconvenience. Only short-listed applicants will be invited for written test and oral interview.
2019-06-26

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