Vacancy - Assistant Food Security/Livelihoods Coordinator Needed

Employer: Action Against Hunger 

Our Client:

Action Against Hunger (ACF)-USA is part of the ACF-International Network which works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy.

Action Against Hunger, required the service of dynamic, and self motivated individual to fill the following positions below:

Job Title: Assistant Food Security & Livelihoods Coordinator

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Travel: (12months) based in Abuja with 50% field visit

Main Responsibilities:

Assist FSL Coordinator to refine the FSL Strategy, develop programming and an operational plan of action for the Nigeria mission

Assist FSL Coordinator to oversee field teams to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence FSL Interventions

Recruitment, capacity building and coaching of national personnel

Contribute to the tracking and reporting of technical activities

Actively participate in internal & external coordination within the technical sector at the county and state level

Ensure proper and timely implementation of PQA activities

Essential Qualifications & Skills:

University Degree preferred in FSL related studies, e.g. agro-economy, natural resource management, economics.

Two years relevant work experience

Experience in managing multi sector teams

Humanitarian and development capacity

Experience in multi-sector and participatory assessments and data collection tools.

Ability to analyze and synthesize

Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills (English).

Preffered Qualifications and Skills:

Experience in humanitarian PQA or M&E.

Skills on statistical and other software (SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.)

Familiarity with Management Information Systems (Databases) and GIS.

Local Languages (i.e. Hausa) are highly valued

Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible, culturally sensitive

Closing Date: Friday, 29th November 2013

To Apply:

Applications, including CV and Letter of Motivation, should be sent as follows:

By email to: recruitment.ng@acf-international.org

Please note that email subject MUST be the position title being applied to.

Or dropped off to:

No 1, Jerry Gana Close

Utako, Abuja FCT

Note: only short listed candidate would be contacted