Role Purpose:

The Education Program Officer will provide operational and technical support to implement all education activities for the project and ensuring effective collaboration across other Thematic Officers on the project. This includes, supporting in the development of the Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP), participating in stakeholders’ engagement and coordination meetings, participating in needs assessments and trainings, and contribute to narrative reporting in line with donor requirements. The role also involves close collaboration with community leaders, religious leaders, and other key stakeholders within the community.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support the coordination and implementation of the ECW-MYRP and ECHO Project in Adamawa and Borno State, Nigeria in line with the design of the project and donor requirements.
• Lead the community mapping and identification of schools, learners and adolescents in collaboration with stakeholders in line with the project design.
• Coordinate with other technical functions to ensure conducive learning environment for learners across the formal and non-formal schools.
• Support to establish, maintain, and strengthen linkages in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation on the project. As well as contribute to assessments (baseline, needs).
• Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking of progress on output indicators; utilize data to contribute to reports as required.
• Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm.
• Create and sustain positive working relationships with the partners, government officials and other key stakeholders.
• Support in planning and coordinating State and LGAs level engagement with partners, local government education authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Contribute to ensuring timely and quality reports are submitted as per the reporting requirements.
• Ensure safe programming in the planning, implementation, monitoring, identification of learners, training of teachers and construction/rehabilitation of classroom environment throughout the project period.
• Adhere to the Do no Harm principles across the entire steps of the project within the Program Management Cycle.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• At least 3 years of accrued working experience in program implementation.
• Experience in strategic thinking and planning skills, be able to set priorities, prepare manageable plans and to evaluate progress.
• Experience of working on TaRL and with Out of School Children (OOSC).
• Experience of working and responding to Education in an emergency context.
• Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
• Highly developed cultural awareness.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
• Excellent time management and planning capacity.
• Fluent in English language skills (written and verbal) and local language skills (Hausa, etc.).

Role Purpose:

The Child Protection Officer will be responsible for implementing and overseeing child protection initiatives within an education project. This role involves working closely with project staff, community members, and other stakeholders to ensure that children are protected from abuse, exploitation, neglect, and violence. The Child Protection Officer will develop and deliver training, provide technical support, and ensure that child protection principles are integrated into all project activities.

The   Child Protection Officer will be expected to support on sectoral assessment, project planning and coordination.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement child protection strategies and activities within the education project.
• Conduct risk assessments to identify potential child protection issues and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensure child protection standards are maintained in all project activities.
• Training and Capacity Building:
• Design and deliver training sessions for project staff, teachers, community members, and other stakeholders on child protection issues.
• Raise awareness about child protection issues within the community and among project beneficiaries.
• Advocate for the rights of children and the importance of education in protecting children from harm.
• Psychosocial support and referral.
• Representation in relevant child protection forums and networks.

Qualifications and Experience:

• University degree or equivalent in social work, social science, development studies or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience.
• Between three and four years of work experience in Protection work, supervision, community mobilization and distributions and solid understanding of the actual Nigeria Emergency context.
• Proven ability to supervise a CP project with holistic approach and integrated to child protection right.
• Speaking fluent English, and other languages of Northern Nigeria is an advantage.
• High level of personal integrity, commitment and professional responsibility.
• Excellent communication skills,
• Team player with strong leadership skills.

Role Purpose:

The job holder is responsible for providing oversight MEAL function to design and lead a strong MEAL system. The MEAL system’s objective is to ensure harmonized and aligned data collection and monitoring to inform decision-making, accountability, reporting and learning in a timely and strategic manner. The MEAL Coordinator ensures that the program undertakes routine Continuous Quality Improvement & data quality assessment, has information briefs, regular sharing of Program updates with stakeholders, a mechanism for collecting, tracking and responding to feedback and complaints from Program stakeholders In addition, the job holder ensures that Quality Benchmarks are used during program implementation of activities and puts in place a tailor made documentation strategy for impact stories, reports, and best practices. The staff is responsible for ensuring that Program data on outputs and outcome progress is collected, analyzed and synthesized accurately and in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and implement monitoring tools for indicator tracking.
• Develop an operational MEAL plan to monitor and document program progress.
• Contribute to developing Quality Benchmarks for activities, guiding monitoring and ensuring timely action plan implementation.
• Enhance the use of digital data management, this may include the use of Kobo and ODK among other programs.
• Conduct routine data quality assessment and continuous quality improvement to ensure program implementation and report quality.
• Coordinate the design of participatory program evaluations and assessments.
• Coordinate and conduct program evaluations.
• Collaborate to establish and maintain effective Feedback and Response Mechanisms (FRM).
• Manage complaints and feedback, track response timeliness, and maintain an updated complaints tracker.
• Foster and develop a culture of learning within CASFOD.
• Document lessons on innovations, and interventions for stakeholder sharing.
• Identify research opportunities and coordinate to conduct study.
• Facilitate documentation of program results, impact, and best practices, ensuring lessons inform programming and advocacy.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of four years’ work experience in monitoring and evaluation working experience (preferably in education/protection-related programs)
• Knowledge and use of various survey methods for monitoring different programs.
• Sound written and oral presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must. Microsoft Office, especially Word, spreadsheet (Excel, Stata, Power BI, and QGIS applications).
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching.

Role Purpose: 

The role will conduct and support daily financial compliance operations. This will comprise setting up compliance monitoring systems; producing compliance reports; review and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of operations, reliability of financial reporting, compliance with applicable laws and the safeguarding of assets, perform and report back on internal assessments to ensure that financial control, financial guidelines and other control procedures are in place and are being properly implemented and managed; financial and risk monitoring; and ensuring compliance with CASFOD requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review monthly financial report and follow up with other departments for any corrective actions required.
• Ensure financial and operational compliance at CASFOD.

Support the budget development and budget planning processes, including development of internal budgeting guidelines, templates and tools, grant proposal development and budget modifications.

Review, analyze and discuss with head of programs the budget vs actual reporting process for all grants.

• Support regular update/analysis of the BVAs and pipelines. Ensure monthly review of transactions for compliance and eligibility under grants.
• Review payment and other documents for accuracy, complete and compliance with CASFOD’s policies, donor regulations and local laws.
• Assist in the month end accounting close process for CASFOD, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the ledger, and all supporting documentation.
• Ensure compliance of all supply chain processes including procurement, logistics management, fleet management, inventory management and warehousing management.

Qualifications and Experience:   

• Undergraduate degree in accounting/finance or equivalent.
• Professional Accounting qualification.
• At least 3 years’ experience conducting audit activities.
• Highly skilled in financial statement preparation for purposes of audit (Essential).
• Excellent understanding of business and financial planning including strategic modelling.
• Computer fluency; highly competent using Microsoft Excel and other MS applications.
• Familiarity with computerized accounting systems
• Ability to gather facts and data, scrutinize with ease, determine a logical solution and resolve issues with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to handle challenging workload.
• The highest level of integrity and commitment to prevent corruption and Fraud.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all departments in CASFOD.

Role Purpose: 

The Supply Chain Officer is responsible for working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective supply chain planning and preparation to support program implementation. The supply chain officer is responsible for preparing procurement plans, warehousing plans, transport plans, and distribution plans including implementing all CASFOD’s procurement SOPs.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and regularly review grant(s) procurement plans, ensuring resolution of all related issues collaborating with programs unit leadership.
• Develop and implement category sourcing strategy.
• Handle negotiations with suppliers.
• Maintain relationships with suppliers, and program staff.
• Prepare, review, and utilize procurement contracts, including Master Agreements (MPA, MSA) for purchases.
• Prepare and submit timely and accurate supply chain weekly/monthly report(s) to inform decision-making process.
• Maintain supplier’s database and ensure new vendors are uploaded on Odoo before any transaction with CASFOD.
• Coordinate inventory disposal procedures.
• Placement of the assets and facilities maintenance plans as per CASFOD’s policies, including repairs and insurance coverage process.
• Handle asset and property disposal, and auction management.
• Ensure that inventory report is accurate and regularly reviewed.
• Ensure accurate and updated asset records and documentation are always available.
• Dissemination and adherence to vehicle safety policies by all vehicle users.
• Develop and monitor fleet movement plans, vehicle repairs, drivers’ assignments, vehicle safety, and fuel consumption.
• Develop vehicle management cost analysis.
• Ensure that the fleet\’s legal status (registration, licenses, insurance) is up to date.
• Regular issuance, review, and usage of vehicle monthly reports to inform the strategic decisionmaking process.

Qualifications and Experience:  

• At least 3 years of experience in handling humanitarian supply chain.
• Strong ERP roll out and management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and roll-out supply chain policy and SOPs; – Clear training and mentoring ability.
• Experience working with a diverse portfolio of donors and knowledge of specific donor guidelines. • Demonstrated technical Skills
• Have a high degree of flexibility and ability to work under sometimes extreme hardship conditions against tight deadlines.
• Strong computer and communication equipment skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to lead teams.
• Change management – Risk management.
• Decision-making capability – Cross-functional collaboration – Conflict resolution skills.
• Strategic thinking – Result Focus.
• Effective Communication – Problem-Solving ability.

Role Purpose:

The MEAL Officer will be responsible for establishing and managing a robust Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) system for projects. Core duties for the position include designing and implementing a MEAL system in accordance with CASFOD’s standards.

The position holder lead or support evaluations/assessments, monitor program progress and quality, document lessons learnt and contribute to periodic monitoring and reporting. Ensuring gender-sensitive, inclusive and participatory MEAL processes.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop robust MEAL plans, systems, processes and tools for the project in line with CASFOD and donor requirements.
• Take the lead in data collection efforts, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Conduct in-depth data analysis to derive actionable insights and recommendations.
• To enhance project performance, execute quarterly monitoring, evaluation, and accountability activities, including quality benchmarks, data quality assessments, and/or data quality assessments.
• Document data collection and analysis findings, contributing to comprehensive and informative reports.
• Support in ensuring the project is implementing the 3 pillars of Accountability – Information sharing, participation and feedback & reporting and providing relevant documentation.
• Assist in establishing robust accountability mechanisms, ensuring the voices of project participants are considered in project adaptation/design and implementation.
• Knowledge Management & Learning
• Actively engage in program learning initiatives, facilitating discussions and knowledge-sharing sessions among project teams.
• Ensure project MEAL documents are adequately stored in CASFOD’s resource center.
• Support in the development of case studies and success stories.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of BSc or equivalent qualification in, Economics, Statistics, Development Planning, Social Work or Demography, Computer Science, or any related courses.
• At least 3 years of experience working in MEAL for Humanitarian/developmental organizations.
• Experience in implementing education and protection programs in humanitarian contexts program is an added advantage.
• Experience in the use of analytical and visualization tools/software.
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to communicate technical issues effectively and persuasively.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good Knowledge of local area and local language.

Role Purpose: 

The Education Assistant will be a part of the Education team. He/she will assist the Education team with activities such as Enrolment, back to learning campaigns, community engagement with SBMCs, among other responsibilities assigned regarding enrolment and retention in schools. S/he will also support in ensuring Accountability in supported communities including information sharing, participation, and ensuring efficient feedback and response mechanisms.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Implement delegated reaching out of school project in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality.
• Contribute to assessments (baseline, midline and endline, needs, market).
• Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking of progress on output indicators; utilize data to contribute to reports as requested by management.
• Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm.
• Supervise and manage the teachers, including facilitation of teacher training.
• Provide support on youth/adolescent programming, including, life skills, basic literacy/numeracy, and alternative/accelerated education.
• Support identification of needs, and development and facilitation of training programs for teachers, PTAs, SBMCs
• Facilitate recruitment of volunteer teachers and learning facilitators in the project
• Contribute to proposal and strategy development through input on needs/gaps
• Develop and maintain regular channels of communication with partners and key stakeholders at all levels (Community, LGEA and State).
• Ensure regular monitoring of projects results, documentation of projects case studies, lessons learnt, significant changes and best practices and coordinating learning and reflection meetings/sessions.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree/ Higher national diploma in Education or other related fields of study
• At least 2 years of accrued working experience in program implementation.
• Experience in strategic thinking and planning skills, be able to set priorities, prepare manageable plans and to evaluate progress.
• Experience of working on TaRL and ABEP for Out of School Children (OOSC).
• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Excellent time management and planning capacity.
• Fluent English language skills (written and verbal) and Local language skills (Hausa, Fulfulde etc.).
• Experience of working in remote field bases with limited infrastructure
• Ability to synthesize and analyze information, and make clear, informed decisions
• Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
• Strong planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Cultural awareness, with strong written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.

Role Purpose:

The post holder will support assessments to lead the implementation of economic empowerment interventions for vulnerable adolescent and youth in program implementation sites. Specifically, Labor Market Assessment (LMA) and Income-Generating Activities (IGA) assessment focusing on the market assessment at project sites. He/she will provide vocational training, entrepreneurship support for young adults and promote Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLAs).

Key Responsibilities: 

• Oversee the implementation of Livelihoods activities and administration of the teams across program field locations.
• Develop activity work plans and manage day-to-day activity implementation.
• Ensure that program implementation is responsive to community needs, meets targets, and is carried out in line with best practices.
• Ensure that beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to vulnerability criteria.
• Establish and maintain effective program reporting, and monitoring and evaluation systems (to track, analyze and report on results) for both internal and external use.
• Integrate community approaches, protection mainstreaming, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate.
• Ensure program filing system is in place, adheres to internal and donor regulation and filing is regularly maintained.
• Coordinate with MEAL team to map, identify and register program participants.
• Lead in the selection and registration of beneficiaries with support from MEAL team.
• Coordinate the sensitization and ensuring beneficiaries received necessary safeguarding support during project activities.
• Facilitate training of beneficiaries on financial literacy, bookkeeping and smart saving practices.
• Lead the market assessment to ascertain the most profitable skills in the intervention locations.
• Coordinate post distribution monitoring with MEAL team.
• Ensure effective community engagement to create enabling environment and ownership.
• Submit monthly program update including success stories to the supervisor.
• Identify emerging issues related to the livelihood program and make recommendation for further solution.
• Working closely with the Livelihoods Advisor /project Manager and the project coordinator and/or other senior program staff, support timely program and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• With support from the Project Coordinator and/or other senior program staff, identify program supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
• With support from the Accountability Lead ensure accountability is enforced in all project activities as well as ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design/implementation
• With support from the community mobilization lead, ensure effective and efficient information sharing to relevant stakeholders and continuous program sensitization.
• Work closely with partners and their staff to ensure project activities are implemented in time and within the stipulated quality.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• 3 years relevant experience of working in livelihoods, including report writing.
• Educational qualification: B.SC in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Economics or its equivalent in any related field of study.
• Previous experience of project management and implementation of livelihoods component of humanitarian and/or development projects.
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability.
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation.
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports.
• Excellent communication and strong influencing skills.
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.
• A high level of written and spoken English.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• High level of communication in a local language related to working environment
• Familiarity with inter sectoral integration of project interventions
• Experience in gender mainstreaming and social protection programming.

Role Purpose: 

The post holder will provide technical support to guide and inform gender and disability-inclusive programming for CASFOD. She/he will work with the program team, partners, government and communities to implement specific gender and disability inclusion activities. She/he will mainstream gender as a cross-cutting themes for all the programmatic activities. She/he will ensure gender and disability is integrated into the results-based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting disability inclusion, gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity strengthening for field teams.

Key Responsibilities: 

• The gender and disability inclusion officer will provide technical support to guide and inform gender-based and disability inclusion programming at CASFOD.
• The gender and disability inclusion officer will provide technical support to mainstream gender as cross cutting theme for all the programmatic activities.
• She/he will ensure gender is integrated into the results-based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity.
• She/he will provide overall gender and disability programmatic and operational coordination and management including planning, implementation, capacity enhancement, monitoring/ evaluation and reporting.
• Develop and maintain a network of external contacts with key individuals in the government, NGO sector, civil society and the media particularly working on gender issues and participate in gender working group meetings, which may include providing oversight.
• Support tracking of gender and disability-inclusive and disability-specific project indicators.
• Support MEAL team in disability data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Ensure consultation of beneficiaries with disabilities in project evaluation and learning.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• BSc in Gender Studies, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience.
• At least 3 years of work experience on gender mainstreaming in both humanitarian and development contexts or fragile states.
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required.
• Ability to identify the main gender gaps and issues in the given context to inform a holistic response for boys, girls and their male and female caregivers.
• Proven experience in supporting the designing, implementing and evaluating gendertransformative social and behaviour change communication interventions.
• Experience in supporting the implementation of disability-inclusive and gender-transformative approaches.
• Experience on conducting assessments and implementing MEAL processes and conducting rapid and participatory gender analysis.
• Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy.
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.

Role Purpose:

The role will be responsible for providing and/or ensuring provision of MHPSS services to vulnerable and at-risk children, their families and communities, learning spaces, community centers and schools using models including child and youth resilience, HEART, structured play and recreation, home-based care, individual counselling, group counselling, among others. The MHPSS officer will support the counselling of children who suffer or at risk of mental and psychological problem. The MHPSS Officer will work in close collaboration with other colleagues in child protection, education, health, nutrition as well as other sectors and ensures integrated services and contextualized MHPSS messaging for children, caregivers and the communities.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support the planning and rollout of models including child and youth resilience, HEART, structured play and recreation, home-based care, individual counselling, group counselling, among others while ensuring MHPSS and child protection principles and standards are followed and complied with.
• Build capacity of counsellors, case workers, community volunteers and key stakeholders on MHPSS and how to integrate MHPSS in their day-to-day work with vulnerable and at-risk children, caregivers and their communities.
• Assess MHPSS capacity building needs among other sectoral staff, community structures, caregivers, teachers and children themselves and develop and implement capacity building plans.
• Develop and conduct assessment to understand the MHPSS needs of children, caregivers, teachers and community members and use the results to develop appropriate MHPSS prevention and response interventions.
• Ensures that case management staff are appropriately reflecting MHPSS support in their daily work with children and caregivers.

Provide appropriate tailored/focused counselling support for cases with mental and psychological support that may require such support.

Conduct regular visits to the field project sites to support MHPSS interventions/services and to conduct counselling sessions for children of concern, caregivers and other stakeholders.

• Compile the weekly and periodic data, as appropriate, of cases supported with MHPSS services.
• Provide high quality periodic reports as may be required from time to time.  

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of B.Sc. in Psychology, Psychiatric Nurse, and any related counseling or psychological course.
• At least 2 years’ work experience in implementing mental health and psychosocial support programming
• Proven capacity to train, supervise, and coach staff on key MHPSS topics
• Practical experience on MHPSS community-based approaches.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Capacity to work with a team.
• Capacity to work under pressure.
• Computer skills in word and excel.
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Role Purpose: 

The WASH Assistant will support the in the overall objective of the construction/rehabilitation of water and sanitation facilities as well as leading hygiene promotion and menstrual hygiene management.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Assist in the construction and rehabilitation of water and sanitation facilities and ensuring that the construction is of the highest quality and as per original design.
• To assist in monitoring of water quality through continual testing and undertaking activities to address poor quality.
• Lead technically towards the drilling of boreholes in schools and communities.
• Lead sanitation parades in communities.
• Maintain good coordination with the WASH team, Community Hand Pump Mechanics, community hygiene promoters, sanitation committees to ensure the quality of the implemented activities and provide technical support for all hygiene related issues.
• Promote safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services among target communities.
• Assist in communicating effectively with the communities targeted, ensuring that hygiene and health messages are passed on with participatory interventions, allowing ownership and empowerment of the beneficiaries to influence their hygiene and health.
• Lead orientation on menstrual health management including the distribution of dignity and menstrual kits.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• First Degree in Engineering, Geology, Geography or other WASH-related fields from a recognized/accredited Tertiary Institution in Nigeria.
• An advanced degree will be an added advantage.
• At least 1-2 years post NYSC relevant experience.
• Previous experience.
• Experience in WASH and in community-based program.
• Community mobilization and advocacy experience.
• Computer literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint)
• Fluency in English and Hausa spoken and written.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work within a team setting.
• Independence, adaptability and flexibility with good workload management, multitasking and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills.

Deadline: Jan 26, 2025