Social Safety Net Officer needed at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Reporting to: Programme Manager

Proposed start date: December 2024

Work location: Maiduguri, Borno State

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct mapping and selection of the most vulnerable groups, ensuring that women, girls, and other marginalized groups are prioritized;
• Develop and execute detailed plans for cash transfers, social safety net, and education-related interventions in collaboration with relevant team members;
• Work closely with government officials, local leaders, and communities to ensure alignment with community needs and project goals;
• Collaborate with the Ministry of Education office at State/LGA level to conduct mass campaigns and link educational support with economic recovery activities. Provide and follow scholarships to vulnerable children, particularly girls, and link them with other project components like literacy training;
• Undertake program budgeting of the social protection and safety net interventions, budget monitoring and provide information for cash projections;
• Ensure stakeholders active engagement and participation in all safety net and education promotion activities;
• Ensure community participation in identifying communal assets and condition for the cash transfer;
• Ensure any compliance and feedbacks are addressed.
• Oversee the rehabilitation of community assets through labor-intensive activities, ensuring that selected households are supported with cash transfers;
• Manage monthly conditional cash transfers for vulnerable households, with a focus on encouraging behavioral changes that improving household resilience;
• Coordinate emergency cash or voucher assistance for households in the event of unforeseen disasters, ensuring adherence to gender and protection standards;
• Regularly Monitor the market situation/assessment for cash programing.
• Ensure adherence to Action Against Hunger technical guidelines and monitor the implementation of all social protection and safety net activities;
• Contribute to organizational learning by documenting lessons learned and best practices. Prepare internal and external reports, including case studies and success stories related to the project component under the officer responsibility;
• Support systematic monitoring and evaluation of all activities, ensuring that data is accurate, up-to-date, and accessible for stakeholders;
• Contribute to the compilation of monthly social protection and safety nets technical reports with an overview of activities on economic empowerment of the social protection income generation activities area of the program, contextual updates and quantitative indicator follow-up;
• Review reports and gauge program progress against logical framework, ensuring compliance with the organization internal and donor’s reporting standards;
• Review all procurement requests for social protection and safety nets of the income generation activities of the program component before submission to the logistics department;
• Support in follow up on logistics requirements in coordination with the procurement officer and Log manager;
• Ensure that all program-related data and information on social protection and safety nets component of the program is correct, updated, organized and accessible to other key stakeholders, and that lessons learnt and best practice are documented;
• Facilitate and support systematic monitoring and evaluation of activities;
• Support development of activities progress reports for the social protection and safety nets team as well as contribute to the development of donor reports;
• Ensure any compliance and feedbacks are addressed;
• Ensure sex disaggregated data management and reporting;
• Follow and take into account the gender action plan of the components.
• Facilitate the integration of social protection with other sectors such as livelihoods, health, and nutrition within the targeted communities;
• Engage constructively with LGA authorities, traditional and religious leaders, and other stakeholders to ensure effective project implementation;
• Incorporate climate resilience into social protection activities, fostering sustainable solutions in the emergency-development nexus;
• Communicate performance standards, provide feedback, and support the professional development of team members;
• Assist in recruiting, evaluating, and coaching team members to ensure high performance;
• Establish performance objectives, provide feedback, identify strengths and areas for professional improvement;
• Contribute to the professional development and improvement of team members by providing support;
• Communicate Action Against Hunger performance standards and expectations to team members which includes; 10 minutes monthly conversation, 3 months/end of probation performance appraisal and annual/ end of contract appraisal;
• Establish performance objectives, provide feedback, and identify strengths and areas for professional improvement.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Economics, Business Management/ Administration, Education, Social Work and any other related field of study;
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in implementing CVA and Social Protection related interventions;  
• Thorough knowledge of social protection and cash transfer programming;
• Strong communication skills and experience in team support;
• Humanitarian experience, particularly in advocacy and dissemination of information;
• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including government officials and local communities.