Job Title: Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Field Monitor Coordinator (FMC)
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Employer: Chemonics International
Chemonics International, an international development consulting firm, seeks a field monitor coordinator for a five-year USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) project (2012-2016). The project is the world's premier provider of high quality food security analysis and early warning and aims to collaborate with international, regional, and national partners to provide timely and rigorous early warning and analysis of potential, emerging, and/or evolving food security issues in order to inform appropriate humanitarian response. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world. This position is based in Abuja, Nigeria, and Nigerian citizens are strongly preferred.
The field monitor coordinator (FMC) works closely with the national technical manager (NTM) and the assistant national technical manager (ANTM) to support all FEWS NET activities in Nigeria.
Responsibilities include:
• Support the NTM in recruiting market field monitors
• Manage and report FEWS NET's market data and information
• Supervise field monitor activities, including report review
• Collect and enter market price data from field monitors and performing analyses on the data (e.g., calculating averages, percentage changes)
• Summarize in written or verbal form qualitative and quantitative market information for FEWS NET reports, briefings, and ad hoc requests
• Provide monitors with optimum technical guidance to assist them in generating the required data/information/reports
• Ensure that reporting is delivered properly to FEWS NET partners
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree required in a discipline that is directly relevant to food security and agricultural market analysis, including economics, agricultural economics, agronomy, or related fields
• Minimum two years of relevant country or regional experience in early warning/food security/markets information systems, food security analysis, as well as other related fields
• Strong knowledge of agricultural marketing systems in Nigeria
• Experience supervising the work of other staff members
• Excellent computer skills, including advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Experience managing and analyzing databases
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience effectively working and coordinating with partners and stakeholders
• Experience conducting field assessments and knowledge of standard data collection methodology
• Willingness to travel extensively throughout Nigeria
• Excellent analytical and report-writing skills
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
Application Instructions:
Send electronic submissions to NigeriaFMC@chemonics.com by August 30, 2013. Please include the name of the position in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.
In addition, please download and complete Chemonics' equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only "FEWS NET – Field Monitor Coordinator" in the subject line. If you prefer not to disclose your intercourse, race, or ethnicity, you may check "I do not wish to complete the information requested." Thank you for completing the form and supporting our equal employment opportunity reporting requirements.
Chemonics is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, intercourse, national origin, political affiliation, intercourseual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.
Closing date: 22.09.2013
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