FIELD OFFICER – REACH – Garowe, Somalia

FIELD OFFICER – REACH – Garowe, Somalia

Position:                                              REACH FIELD OFFICER

Department:                                       REACH

Location:                                             Garowe, Somalia

Contract Duration:                             31st December 2023

Direct Hierarchy:                                Senior REACH Field Officer

Starting date:                                     August 2023

Background on ACTED

Created in 1993, ACTED is an international non-governmental organization pursuing a dual mandate of emergency response and development interventions in 40 of some of the world’s most vulnerable countries affected by conflicts, disasters, or socio-economic hardship. With a team of 7,000 national staff and 400 international staff, ACTED implements 500 projects a year to support more than 20 million beneficiaries, notably in hard-to-reach areas.

ACTED goes to the last mile through programs and approaches that look beyond the immediate emergency towards opportunities for longer term livelihood reconstruction and sustainable development. Guided by the motto “Think Local, Act Global” and its 3Zero –Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, and Zero Poverty – strategy, ACTED puts local territories at the centre and provides a tailored support to local needs.

ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced, and committed team player to fill the REACH Field Officer in Garowe.

 Position Profile:

The field officer ensures implementation of field assessment data collection, enumerators training with anticipated travel to the field locations as required. He/she is responsible for coordination, supervision of data collection team and daily data cleaning and checks. The field officer reports to directly to the senior field officer.

Duties and Responsibilities

 Ø  Assessment Preparation and Training.

• o In coordination with the REACH Senior Field officer prepare all details related to remote and in person data collection (field schedule, daily collection quote, logistics and administration) according to specified methodology.
• o Coordinate and plan assessment team training.
• o Facilitate sessions of the assessment training.

• Ø Data collection
  • o Provide regular support to the REACH data collection team leaders.
  • o Follow all guidance from REACH Senior Field officer while in the field; ask questions when necessary.
  • o Supervise all data collectors and ensure accurate data collection as specified in the methodology.
  • o Ensure care of all REACH inventory including daily check of assessment mobile phones
• Ø Data Validation
  • o Download all data from the mobile phones at the end of each data collection day.
  • o Spot-check online database for accuracy at the end of each day; question team leaders about any inaccuracies observed and review in daily team debriefs.
  • o Is manual data is used spot-check data entries against hard copy surveys for accuracy daily?
  • o Perform data cleaning at the end of each assessment day.
• Ø Reporting
  • o Prepare final assessment reports including lessons learned, incidents and timeframe.
  • o Assist in preparation of assessment factsheets and consolidated reports.
• Ø External Coordination
  • o Coordinate field operations with participating agencies.
  • o Report regularly to agency focal points about assessment progress and any changes to the plans
  • o Prepare and dissemination assessment results and presentations in relevant coordination forums and meetings.
• Ø Internal Coordination
  • o Daily reports / updates on work activities and outreach completed sent by email or verbally via phone.
  • o Weekly situation analysis (context, activities completed, plans for next week, etc.
•  Monthly REACH activity report noting activities completed  against REACH strategy and objectives

Qualifications/Skills Required:

 Excellent academic qualifications, including First Degree in relevant discipline;

• Analytical skills in qualitative, quantitative and geo-spatial data
• 3 years of relevant working experience in humanitarian settings a benefit.
• Excellent communication and drafting skills for effective reporting.
• Excellent team management skills.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel.
• Familiarity with the aid system and understanding of donor and governmental requirements.
• Somali Language required, English an advantage.
• Ability to operation Microsoft Word, Excel and Project Management Software.
• Prior experience of mobile data collection tools
• Ability to operate qualitative data analysis.

Essential knowledge and skills:

• Fluency in English and Somali language, both oral and written.
• Extensive knowledge of Somalia displacement context.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and team-playing skills.
• Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
• Understanding of gender, protection, and human rights.
• Commitment to promoting gender equality.
• Number of enumerators trainings conducted per the set standards and quality.
• Number of data checks and cleaning conducted on time with set quality standard according to data cleaning SOPs
• % of completed tasks on time

Core competency

•        Must be able to align with the organizational values.
•        Should be versatile and able to perform more than one task as deemed necessary.
•        Dedicate, committed and think outside the box.
•        Autonomous and able to direct him/herself with minimal guidance.
•      Should have great leadership, problem solving and conflict resolution skills.

•       Must be able to achieve result with team work and team leadership
•        Ensure, compliance, transparency, and accountability all the time.
•       Must have good planning, operationalization and organizing skills.
•        Must have high and effective communication skills.

How to apply

Application Procedure:

Qualified national persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter as a single document i.e. with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work related referees and contacts to somalia.jobs@acted.org and received on or before 5.00PM on 26 July, 2023 with the subject line “REACH FIELD OFFICER GAROWE

Please do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.

 Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments.

ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. ACTED has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconducts. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will be expected to sign ACTED’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer.