Project Background
Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (Caritas Nigeria), is a Not-for-Profit Humanitarian and Development Agency established by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), to coordinate at the national level, the social development interventions of the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Caritas Nigeria works to fight hunger, disease and ignorance as well as responds to humanitarian crises and emergencies by mobilizing resources from within and outside the Church to meet the basic needs of affected persons, regardless of religion, nationality or ethnicity.
Program Summary
The project focuses on providing support for vulnerable households with cash and ruminants, empower rural farmers with improved agricultural inputs to increase farm yields as well as provide selected households with eco-friendly stoves.
Job Summary
The Program Assistant, Food Security and Livelihoods will work closely with the Program Manager.
The Food security assistant will be responsible for basic program implementation and reporting on programme activities the program manager and sharing programme impact and lessons learnt through analysis. The program assistant will monitor and manage various rules of law related initiatives and coordinate, plan, supervise the implementation of various awareness session, training sessions, litigation progress, collaborations with other CSOs/NGOs etc. He or she will also provide a narrative of the results on a week and monthly basis to Program Manager.
Job Description
Assist in liaising with various community stakeholders and mobilize them to ensure full involvement of community leaders and community representative and local government representatives in the overall implementation and improvement of project activities.
Participate in annual project reviews and planning workshops and assist the officer in preparing monthly, annual and end-of-project narrative reports and other reports as required.
Support monitoring and evaluation of the effects and impact of the project.
Organize safe return and keeping of all equipment to the office after project implementation
Account for all equipment under his/her section
Alert food Program Manager of issues raised by monitoring if the goals and objectives are achieved and non-financial grant requirements are being adhered to.
Coordinates and Supervises Community Mobilizers/Volunteers and/or Enumerators activities.
Report serious indiscipline to the project manager immediately
Facilitate Post distribution monitoring and impact visit to projects site for impact assessment and success stories reporting purposes
Proper documentation of activity reports
Provide regular and timely updates on progress and challenges to supervisors and other team members;
Assist project teams with other activities, as requested by immediate supervisor;
Perform any other related activities as assigned by immediate supervisor
Qualification and Experience
University degree in Agriculture and other related field
Minimum of 2-years relevant working experience in the relevant filed.
Excellent skills in monitoring implementation of program activities.
Managing resources and achieving results
Ability to write reports.
A proven record in managing team.
Ability to work in partnership with local communities and other NGOs as appropriate.
Key Competencies.
Should possess good skills in
Strong sensitivity and respect for local cultures
Professional manner in dealing with community members and co-workers.
Strong listening skills combined with excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
Possess good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
Ability to work to meet deadlines in multiple tasking environments
Excellent organization, planning and analytical skills
Good writing skills in English.
Ability to work in a challenging and demanding environment.
Ability to work as part of a team and coordinate with other implementing partners
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