ZOA is looking for a

Shelter/NFI Officer

ZOA’s programme in Ethiopia

ZOA works in several regions in Ethiopia: Gambella Regional State (field office in  Gambella Town), Somali Regional State (field office in Dolo Ado and Melkadida refugee camp), Tigray Regional State (field office in Shire and Mekelle), Oromia Regional State (field office in Harar), Amhara and Addis Ababa. In Ethiopia, ZOA works with Internally Displaced People (IDPs), host populations, persons with disabilities, returnees, and a large population of refugees who fled a combination of violence and drought in Somalia, South Sudan and Eritrea.

What we offer

ZOA offers a challenging position with a lot of responsibilities. We offer good benefits and remuneration which suits the NGO sector (including, but not limited to: medical, accident and life insurances, provident fund, training options).

Your challenge

The  Shelter/NFI  Officer is the field-level position for ES/NFI program who work in the emergency affected communities during the emergency shelter, Non-food Items/NFI distribution, Cash transfer programing, or any other emergency rapid response activities.  The position spends 80% of his/her time in the field, identifying priority needs, target communities, establishing relationships with community local government and leaders, mobilize the communities, ensure the delivery of materials/inputs, conduct registration of complaints, ensure proper distribution and documentation of Shelter/NFI items, and follow up the beneficiaries to construct/repair their shelters appropriately.

Over all, the scope of the position is to do proper Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items Response activities by using appropriate in kind or cash based up on the context of the emergency, actively participate in the ES/NFI distribution, Cash transfer program, in joint beneficiary selection/ verification, community mobilization, monitoring and evaluations in the emergency affected communities in Somali region, Nogob Zone.

The main objective of Shelter/NFI Officer position is to successfully address activities in implementation of the Shelter/NFI project, ensure community mobilization and local coordination.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establish and maintain transparent, functional relationships with target communities.
• Establish and maintain transparent, functional working relationships with local government at woreda levels and with the vendors, the farmers’ cooperative union, cooperative promotion offices and NGOs operating in the project area
• Ensure successful joint targeting of beneficiaries, verification and make sure the distribution of ES/NFI appropriately.
• Prepare BoQ for shelter construction/repairs, drawing the engineering designs for the shelters to be constructed and ensue its scale up in acceptable manner.
• Actively participate on Rapid Assessments, market assessments, shelter damage, capacity assessment of Financial Service Providers (FSP) and other digital cash transfer.
• Regularly follow up and provided routine advices for the shelter construction/repair of the targeted beneficiaries as per the standard.
• Identify the damaged houses and ensure the HLP related issues with the community and concerned government bodies.
• Participate in different representations or coordination like at zone and woreda level.
• Prepare detail work plans for ES/NFI, Cash Transfer Programming and Community Mobilization activities and ensure proper implementation of planned activities in different emergency context.
• Organize and share the weekly,  monthly and quarterly  progress plan/reports.
• Serve as the focal point person for all S/NFI and community mobilization for kebeles under his/her responsibility and supervise and support the community mobilizers/facilitator.
• Work with Cash specialist and other Humanitarian  team on development, testing, printing and positioning of culturally appropriate IEC materials, and monitoring tools and ensure proper use of the  IEC/ BCC materials to reach the beneficiaries with key messages.
• Together with Emergency Project Manager initiating procurements to ensure timely and adequate supplies for ES/NF activities.
• Document and share lessons learned and success stories in relation to ES/NFI distribution, Shelter repair/construction to inform future programming.
• Ensure that the program resources are implemented in transparent and accountable manner and handed over or ended in a way that promotes local capacities and sustainable operations.
• Conduct post distribution monitoring (PDM) and Post Construction Monitoring (PCM) to ensure the program quality and collect lesson learnings.
• Organize the beneficiary feedback mechanism is established in inclusive and transparent way and the BF committees are actively participated in all distributions and distributions done in equitable and transparent way
• Take any additional responsibility/ies as requested his/her supervisor or by ZOA.