Location: Yobe State
Description:
Job Title: Cash Officer Company: Action Against Hunger | ACF-International Experience: 3 years Qualification: BA/BSc/HND Location: Yobe, Nigeria Job Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit . Action Against Hunger | ACF-International works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy. . Position Overview: - Cash Officer will directly report to Cash Deputy Program Manager and will play a key role in implementing the PROTECT IDP response in Yobe State (LGA) in North-Eastern Nigeria. From December, 2015 to March 2016, ACF will implement a multi-sectoral emergency response program to support IDPs in settlement and camps, and most vulnerable host households in a bid to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria. . Specific Objectives: • Facilitate program coordination and monitoring and evaluation of the FSL activities. • Facilitate community mobilisation activities to support targeting and registration of beneficiaries and improve FSL/Cash Base Interventions knowledge, attitudes and practices • Ensure the proper HR management of the field based Cash team • Represent ACF externally in relevant LGA level forums and technical working groups • Provide support to the Cash Deputy Program Manager to implement the program successfully. . Qualifications: - Degree in Accountancy and food security related field e.g. Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies etc. . Essential Skills and Experience: • Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive • Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies • Previous experience with Cash, food security and livelihoods programming. • Three years relevant work experience • Capacity to supervise a team • Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word) • Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited. • Fluency in Hausa, Kanoori and English • Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy . Preferred Skills and Experience: • Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers) • Previous team management and activity planning experience • Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy • Previous experience with ACF • Previous donor programming experience (e.g. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) • Analytical capacity • Good relational qualities • Good knowledge of techniques and agricultural/animal health production systems • Good knowledge of implementing projects • Capacity to write high quality reports.
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