Senior Project Officer – Nutrition MAMI (Nigerian Nationals Only) at Catholic Relief services (CRS)

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

• Job Identification3001968
• Job Category :Program Management
• Locations:  Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria(On-site)
• Job Schedule : Full time
• Job Shift : Day

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

Technical/Administrative, Program Quality and Implementation

• Ensure quality and timely field level implementation of the MAMI Nutrition program against set objectives, targets, and work plans
• Advise and assist Partner nutrition team in developing project specific strategies, tools, systems, and plans.
• Develop activity workplans for the Nutrition programme and ensure proposed activities are developed in coordination with other sectors-internally and externally with other implementing partners.
• Ensure that nutrition programs utilize international best practices, policies, and guidelines, in line with Ministry of Health and WHO/UNICEF
• Oversee the collection and timely reporting of data and statistics for all nutrition programs in line with CRS guidelines and according to donor requirements.
• Actively monitor programs/projects through field visits, surveys and/or exchange of information with partners to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution.
• With support from the line supervisor, and MEAL department and nutrition team, lead the development of routine monitoring tools for tracking project progress, as well as necessary IEC materials to strengthen MAMI, CMAM ,MIYCN-E and SBCC activities advocacies in the community.

Program Development and Strategic Planning

• Contribute to and support in carrying out the situation analysis for the nutrition sector to ensure timely and current data on maternal and child nutrition are available for the designing, development, and management of nutrition projects.
• Identify opportunities for program and proposal development in line with the CRS’s and donor guidelines.
• Work in coordination with Procurement and Admin units to track Nutrition programme procurements, delivery and distribution at the field level.
• Participate in proposal writing and budget development processes for nutrition program
• Lead technical assessments as a basis for nutrition program development when necessary to monitor evolving needs of the target communities and adjust the programmatic priorities as necessary.

Capacity Building and Supervision

• Ensure the capacity building of CRS nutrition team and partner staff through on-the-job training, technical guidance and coaching sessions while ensuring staff performance evaluation plans are developed
• Ensure appropriate support to the nutrition team by regular field visits and provide targeted technical feedback
• Develop capacity building plans and strategies and identify relevant training opportunities for CRS and partner staff to advance knowledge and skills in nutrition.
• Monitor staffing needs and assist the recruitment of local staff and support staff development through mentoring to enhance the capacity of project and partner staff
• Develop a process for ensuring quality and safety of nutrition related activities and products.

Coordination and Representation

• Represent CRS at nutrition sector working group meetings and coordination forums UN, international and national NGOs for nutrition coordination as needed at the LGA and state level
• Ensure good coordination with other CRS partners staff, nutrition field teams and provide frequent feedback and updates
• Develop new and manage existing relationships with key stakeholders and potential collaborators for nutrition programs.
• Good understanding of Nutrition sector reporting requirements, templates and timelines.
• Review and highlight opportunities for Protection, safeguarding and Gender mainstreaming in the proposed Nutrition activities; And follow up to ensure, nutrition team integrate the protection principles during activity design and implementation.

Reporting

• Support the development of field-based reports to CRS, Nutrition sector and/or external donors, as necessary.
• Develop reporting templates for supervisees to aid in tracking progress of programme activities and key indicators
• Conduct any other programming responsibility delegated by the supervisor.

Required Languages – English and Hausa required. Kanuri strongly preferred.

Travel – Must be willing and able to travel up to 40%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Analysis and problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners
• Proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented
• Attention to details, accuracy and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with partners, participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Staff supervision experience a plus.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Supervisory Responsibilities: CRS Nutrition Officer

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Emergency Coordinator, Head of Office,  MEAL coordinator, CAT officer and Finance Officer.

External: Partner staff, Volunteers, CNMs, lead mothers, Promoters, Care group Volunteers, Vendors Enumerators.

Qualifications

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