Background on ACTED

ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each context.

ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill CCCM Senior Project Officer  position in Jijiga, Ethiopia.

Position Profile

ACTED’s CCCM Senior Project Officer will play an integral part of ACTED CCCM response in the IDP sites of Somali region. This will require constant interaction with the project manager as well as with sites coordination structures and humanitarian partners. The CCCM Senior Officer will also have an administrative responsibility of ensuring that project assistant staff as well as daily workers are actively following their ToRs and abiding by ACTED Code of Conduct.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

Partner coordination

–        Liaising and coordination with all humanitarian partners and stakeholders working in the sites

–        Liaising and coordination with local authorities responsible for site administration

–        Liaising with clusters

Protection mainstreaming

–        Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of activities

–        Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines

–        Referring to and following up with protection partners on identification and addressing of cases of vulnerability within the camp

–        Ensure that principles of data confidentiality are respected in information management activities and that sensitive data of beneficiaries are protected when stored or shared if strictly necessary

Monitoring and Evaluation

–        Supporting AME team in beneficiary identification, registration and verification

–        Supporting AME team in Post-Distribution monitoring exercise

Project management and reporting

Planning, Implementing and Reporting

–        Supporting the line manager in devising weekly and long-term work plans for the project implementation, particularly or information management activities

–        Attending regular staff coordination meetings

–        Timely reporting on problems and challenges in the site to the line Manager

–        Timely submission of weekly report, information products and updated databases as requested by the line manager

HR

–        Commitment to continuous learning through trainings and timely identification of capacity-building needs and opportunities, in coordination with line Manager/TC/HR Dept.

–        Supervise recruitment of enumerators when needed for data collection

–        Train Enumerators

Transparency and Compliance

–        Ensuring compliance to ACTED internal procedures and donor procedures

–        Accurate record keeping of project documentation, including photos and proper filing of meeting minutes, databases, attendance sheets, assessment reports/documents, review and updating of databases etc., in soft and hard copy

Others

–        Provide translation of various documents (e.g. reports, minutes, beneficiary lists, information signs) upon request

–        Perform any additional task as requested by the line Manager.

Perform other tasks and responsibilities as requested.

Subordination

The employee works under the direct supervision of the CCCM Project Manager

·       Bachelor’s degree or higher Diploma in civil engineering, humanities, social studies, architecture, urban planning or engineering

·       Minimum four years of experience in international and/or local NGO; ideally involved in the direct implementation of field level humanitarian assistance to refugees or IDPs.

·       Experience working in a camp setting

·       Previous work with camp management agency

·       Technical skills such as Microsoft Office.

·       Fluency in English and Somali local language, both oral and written.

·       Extensive knowledge of displacement context.

·       Excellent communication skills.

·       Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative.

·       Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.

·       Managerial experience, including leading/supervising subordinate staff, organizing activities and report writing.

·       Experience in CCCM, including Introduction to CCCM Training.

·       Preferable experience operating in a refugee/IDP camp environment.