Vacancies at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental
organization supporting relief and development work in over 100
countries around the world. CRS programs assist persons on the basis of
need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality. CRS works
through local church and
non-church partners to implement its
programs. Therefore, strengthening and building the capacity of these
partner organizations is fundamental to our approach in every
country in which CRS operates. CRS re-established its presence in
Nigeria in 2000 and currently focuses on agriculture, governance,
peace building and Health/HIV programming.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Project Officer - Food Security and Livelihood
Location: Yobe State
Catholic Relief Services
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Under the leadership of the Food Security Program Manager, the
Food Security and Livelihoods Project Officer (FSLPO) is responsible for
conducting and facilitating daily project activities in her/his
geographic location, while maintaining relationships with local partner
staff as well as vendors and beneficiaries.
- The FSLPO, in collaboration with the local partner, will lead
and validate beneficiary selection, ensure compliance with e-voucher
methodology, collect data as guided by the MEAL Manager and assist the
local partners in reporting.
Specific Job Responsibilities
The FSLPO’s specific responsibilities will include the following:
- Supervise the process of beneficiary selection by the local partner
- Supervise the distribution of e-voucher to selected beneficiaries
- Supervise vendor selection process
- Use ICT to collect and transmit data to supervisor
- Prepare and submit to the Food Security Program Manager the liquidation documentation for vendor payment
- Ensure the post distribution household and market surveys are conducted in a timely manner
- Support local implementing partner to carry out monthly field activities
- Collaborate with the local partner to generate monthly program progress reports
- Contribute to the planning, organization and implementation of the final evaluation
- Supervise beneficiaries’ sensitization on dietary diversity and card utilization
- Monitor the monthly food distribution by vendors to ensure beneficiaries redeem their food items appropriately
- Provide program feedback, report and support of field logistics to project manager
Qualifications
- University degree in, Nutrition, Agriculture or any other relevant equivalent degree
- At least 3 years’ experience in project implementation preferably with an international humanitarian NGO
- Proven experience in conducting participatory activities for qualitative program monitoring
- Demonstrated commitment to gender responsive programming
- Excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communication skills
- Team-oriented and strong interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated experience in data collection
- Experience with or interest in learning ICT4E technology applications for emergency work
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to organize and prioritize a variety of initiatives
- Willingness to travel within Yobe and other parts of Nigeria 60% of the time
Job Title: Deputy Country Representative - Health
Reference Number: DCRH190417
Location: Abuja
Job Summary
- The Deputy Country Representative/Health (DCR/Health) for CRS in
Nigeria is responsible for leading the growth and management of the
country program’s (CP) health portfolio as well as providing strategic
leadership and ensuring program quality.
- S/he will anticipate appropriate opportunities for funding
in-line with the country and agency strategy, and ensure effective
partnerships – especially with Church partners, government and the
private sector – to reach program objectives.
- The DCR/Health will lead the programming team in this sector
with clear planning and priorities then monitor and evaluate progress
against those plans. In this position the DCR will play a key role in
promoting teamwork, collaboration, adherence to CRS programming
principles and program quality, and learning across program teams as
well as collaboration between operations and programming.
- The DCR is a critical member of the Leadership Team (LT) as well as the Management Team (MT).
Specific Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Program Quality:
- Ensure a Nigeria Health Strategy is developed and regularly
updated to guide CP’s direction in the health sector, ensuring that this
strategy is innovative and aligned with CRS’ agency and CP strategies
and policies.
- Ensure that all CP activities relating to health, inclusive of
social services, are effectively and efficiently contributing to
strategic objectives and results are achieved per expected technical
quality standards.
- Oversee, in collaboration with health teams, periodic technical
reviews and manage changes in program direction and focus in
collaboration with partners, donors, and CRS technical experts.
- Ensure that CP health programs are developed within the
framework of Integral Human Development (IHD) and complementary
to/aligned with other programs, including government and Church.
- Ensure effective gender-mainstreaming across the health program in both programming and management.
- In collaboration with the programming and project-specific
teams, ensure development of high quality training materials, delivery
of quality training, technical assistance and administrative and
financial support to all partner agencies, including the selection and
coordination of consultants.
- Promote the use of quality improvement, data-informed decision
making and evidence-based practices (or sound practices where evidence
is limited) among health program staff and partners.
Growth:
- Coordinate capture planning, prepositioning, partnership
negotiations and proposal development processes for health opportunities
in compliance with CRS’ best practices and guidance in collaboration
with the Senior Business Development Manager.
- Ensure high quality, logical project design in new proposals.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and Knowledge Management:
- Promote effective knowledge management within the health program and across sectors.
- Collaborate with appropriate Regional and HQ Advisors to promote
program quality and sharing of learning and identify relevant
innovations.
- Supervise the MEAL Coordinator for the country program and work
closely with the DCR/Agriculture and Emergency Director to ensure
compliance to the MEAL Policies and Procedures across all sectors with
emphasis on accountability and learning.
- In collaboration with the MEAL Coordinator, oversee the
development and management of the CP’s monitoring, evaluation,
accountability, and learning (MEAL) system for the health program.
- Ensure data is analyzed to measure project performance and identify areas of improvement.
- Ensure that learning is incorporated into evolving program plans.
- Work collaboratively across all sectors to ensure integration, complementarity and learning.
- In collaboration with the programming team, provide guidance and
oversight to partners and other collaborating agencies to ensure that
lessons of sound practice are documented and disseminated.
- Collaborate with Regional and Headquarters technical staff to
identify and implement appropriate electronic data collection solutions
to improve timeliness and quality of M&E and reporting.
Management and Administration:
- Promote coordination and cooperation between health programs and
operations staff including working closely with the DCR/Operations and
HoOPs to ensure stewardship of resources and appropriate budget
management of projects, collaboration in forecasting and other business
processes.
- Ensure accurate and timely management and reporting on financial and material resources as it relates to health programming.
- Ensure staff compliance with all CRS administrative and
operational procedures and policies, as well as applicable donor
regulations.
- Approve CP expenditures, budget adjustments, and cost
modification requests to donors per agency policies and procedures and
donor regulations.
- Assist the CP Leadership Team in the development of the Annual
Programming Plan and provide overall leadership to the development of
the health budgets.
Representation and Partnership:
- Maintain and strengthen partnership, collaboration and
communication with the Ministry of Healthy, Ministry of Women’s Affairs
and Social Welfare Development, National Planning Commission and other
relevant government programs.
- Maintain and strengthen partnership, collaboration and
communication with Catholic Church entities, especially the Catholic
Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN) as related to their health
activities.
- Provide leadership and guidance for programming staff to ensure
strong Church partnership relations and capacity strengthening support,
in-line with HQ and Regional initiatives.
- Ensure visibility of CRS’ health programs in Nigeria.
- In collaboration with CR, act as CP contact to donor and other local and international stakeholders for health.
- In collaboration with CR and Senior Business Development Manager
and Deputy Country Representative (Agriculture) and Emergency Director,
strengthen linkages with existing and potential partner agencies as
well as stakeholder groupings, including technical working groups, such
as the INGO Forum, the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), food
security, and emergency coordination.
- Ensure that institutional capacity strengthening and service
provision align with CRS partnership principles and agency priorities.
Human Resource Management:
- Lead, manage, and supervise the health programming team staff.
This includes supervision of Chiefs of Party (COP) for consortium
programs unless otherwise stipulated by the donor, and heads of health
units.
- Conduct periodic reviews of staff performance in keeping with
CRS’ performance management system and mentor staff to ensure high
levels of motivation, commitment, capacity, and teamwork.
- Ensure high quality staff members are recruited at all levels.
Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS
and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and
achieve the desired results.
- Serves with Integrity
- Models Stewardship
- Cultivates Constructive Relationships
- Promotes Learning
Key Working Relationships
Internal:
- Country Representative, Deputy Country Representative
(Agriculture), Emergency Director, Head of Operations, Senior Business
Development Manager, MEAL Coordinator, CoPs, Deputy Regional Director
for Program Quality and Growth, Regional, Africa-wide, and HQ Technical
Advisors, other programming staff including HoPs and DCRs from other
CPs, Programming Unit Heads, MEAL Advisor, and Finance Manager.
External:
- Church (Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria – CCFN, Catholic
Secretariat of Nigeria – CSN, Diocesan and other implementing partners,
etc.), USG (USAID, CDC, etc.) and other donors, Government of Nigeria
(National Planning Commission, relevant Ministries, etc.) Primary
Recipient and other Global Fund partners, consortium partners (current
and potential), NGO network members, and CSE.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
- Master’s Degree or Doctorate in International Development or a
relevant technical area such as Public Health, Medicine, Social Work or
related field.
- Minimum ten years of international development experience managing and implementing complex programs in developing countries.
- Experience leading business development, including proposal
development, project design, coordination, positioning and negotiating
partnerships.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Knowledge of key donor regulations.
- Proven leadership and inter-personal skills and ability to build and motivate diverse and talented teams.
- Proven experience in building and maintaining institutional linkages and relationships required.
- Demonstrated commitment to improving gender equality and gender responsiveness in programming and operations.
- Cultural sensitivity, patience and flexibility.
- Demonstrated capacity and experience with institutional strengthening of local civil society and government agencies.
- Demonstrated personal accountability and driven to serve others.
- Understanding of and experience with faith-based organizations,
local church structures, and accompaniment and capacity-building
principles in local partnerships highly desired.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products. Ability to travel nationally and internationally as required
Competencies
Builds and leads effective teams:
- Definition: Promotes and guides teamwork among staff and partners as the fundamental approach to achieving CRS’s program goals.
Supervises and Develops Program Staff:
- Definition: Supports the performance and professional development of staff.
Focuses on Quality:
- Definition: Establish systems that support program quality via
agency principles and standards, compliance, learning and innovation.
Leads growth in programs:
- Definition: Engages staff and partners in the development and
growth of programs in line with the country strategy and CRS guiding
principles.
Note
- The position title must be expressly stated as the subject of the email quoting reference number FSLPO180417.
- Applications must reach us on or before COB Tuesday, May 2, 2017 and will be treated as they are received.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should download the "Application
Form Below" and send with a detailed 3-page resume in a single file
word document to:
[email protected]
Click here to download Application Form (MS Word)
Application Deadline: 2nd May, 2017
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