COOPI
Cooperazione Internazionale, is a humanitarian, non-confessional and
independent organization founded in 1965 in Milan, Italy. For more than 50
years we have been dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and to supporting
populations affected by wars, socio-economic crises or natural disasters in
their path to recovery and sustainable development, by making use of the
professionalism of local and international operators, and through our
partnerships with public and private bodies and civil society organizations.
Context and background
Since the
declaration of state of emergency in the Nigerian federal States of Borno,
Yobe, and Adamawa, the escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency has led to
multiple displacement crises, with communities fleeing their area of origin to
take refuge in camps or host communities. In 2014 there was a substantial
increase in violence related to Boko Haram and the counter insurgency
operations, consequently creating acute and largely unmet humanitarian needs,
as IDPs are cut off from their homes and livelihoods, basic services, kinship
and social ties. In September 2014, COOPI began operating in north eastern
Nigeria in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the insurgency,
established its operation in Bauchi State and later expanded to Yobe State
considering the heightened presence of IDPs in the LGAs of Fika, Damaturu,
Potiskum, Geidam and Yunusari. Recently, COOPI initiated a Food Security and
Nutrition intervention in Kaga LGA (Borno State) and establishes a presence in
Maiduguri to launch an Education and Protection projects. COOPI is currently
operating in 5 LGAs in Yobe State, reaching about 25,000 individuals among IDPs
and host communities with a multi-sectoral intervention covering nutrition,
food security and child protection COOPI has recently developed a cash &
voucher based response system in Nigeria to address the food insecure
communities while integrating this approach with a nutrition component –
community outreach, referral system, IYCF campaign and appropriate therapeutic
services addressed to malnourished children and pregnant and breastfeeding
women.
Job ROLE: Child
Protection Project Manager
DUTY STATION: Maiduguri
DONOR: OFDA
DURATION: 12
months, renewable
REQUESTED EXPERIENCE: min.
5 years
Type of contract: Fixed Term Contract
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Child
Protection Project Manager will be responsible for the technical aspects of all
child protection-related programming for COOPI emergency response in Maiduguri
and Borno State, which includes child protection case management, psychosocial
support and community based child protection mechanisms, nutrition and IYCF
related activities. The Child Protection Manager will be expected to lead on
child protection-related assessments, programme design and implementation and
coordination with stakeholders, in collaboration with Protection and Education
Program Manager and the Head of Mission. As well as this, she/he will oversee
the monitoring & evaluation of child protection activities and will be
responsible for the development of donor reporting. The Child Protection
Project Manager is also expected to build the capacity of the team,
mainstreaming child protection across other sector of interventions and
ensuring coordination with the Protection Cluster at Maiduguri and Abuja Level.
RESPONSABILITIES:
Activity
planning and management: in cooperation with the project staff, he/she plans
and monitors the activities’ progress, in compliance with the contract signed
with the donor and with COOPI and the donor’s procedures.
Administrative
and financial management: in collaboration with the Project
Administrator/Administrative Coordinator he/she plans all expenditures to make.
He/she regularly monitors all made expenditures. He/she supervises accounting
and the project cash safe/bank account management and, where there was no
dedicated staff, he/she directly manages the accounting and the project cash
safe/bank accounts, making use of the instruments made available by the
organization (Merlino). In cooperation with the Project Administrator and in
coordination with the Administrative Coordinator he/she prepares the Purchases
Plan. He/she ensures the organization and donor’s procedures respect when
purchasing goods and services.
Reporting:
in coordination with the Head of Mission ad with the Administrative
Coordinator, he/she ensures the preparation, in compliance with the deadlines,
of all financial and narrative reports – interim and final – expected by the
project. He/she is responsible for the preparation of all formal communication
and contract modifications requests (ex. budget modification) of the projects
he manages.
Staff
Management: In coordination with the Head of Mission and in compliance with the
country’s rules/laws and with the COOPI’s regulation in the country, he/she
selects the local staff to be employed in projects, and manages any other
project’s expatriate staff. By making use of the organization’s tools he/she
evaluates the local staff employed for projects and he/she participates to the
evaluation of his/her own project, upon request by his/her direct supervisor.
He/she coordinates and supervises the work done by all the project staff, in
compliance with the organization’s security procedures. He/she is responsible
for the initial and continuous training of the local staff under his/her
responsibility.
Goods
management: he/she is responsible of the correct management of all goods
purchased for the project, both directly and purchased by other offices/field
offices8. For all goods purchased by the project he/she updates the inventory,
in cooperation with the Administrative Coordinator.
Institutional
relations: In relation to the project of his/her competence, he/she
communicates with the donors’ officers, the local authorities which are
competent in the aspects related to the project, the project’s partners and beneficiaries, in compliance with the
organization’s guidelines.
New
projects’ writing: upon request by his/her direct supervisor, and cooperating
with the project staff, he/she elaborates, writes and prepares all necessary
documents to present new projects, in accordance with the organization’s
processes and procedures.
PROFILE:
Advanced
degree in Protection or related field or equivalent work.
Five years
experience in the humanitarian field as project or programme manager or in a
similar position. Demonstrated experience in protection or related field in
fragile states, including IDPs, refugees and returnees context.
Experience
of working within an insecure environment with responsibility for security
planning, monitoring and management.
Strong
analytical and practical problem-solving skills;
Strong
supervisory abilities, and demonstrated capacity of teamwork and of
coordination with the relevant actors;
Very good
inter-personal and writing communication skills;
Ability to
organize work efficiently and deliver assignments in a timely manner often
under time constraints;
Proficiency
in written and spoken English;
Computer
literacy, with high proficiency in the use of standard office software
applications (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint);
How to Apply
Interested
persons should click here to apply
Application Deadline
15th
September, 2017
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