#Vacancy: Program Quality And Accountability (PQA) Officer Job at Child Development Grant Programme

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Job Title: Program Quality And Accountability (PQA) Officer

Company: Child Development Grant Programme

Location: Jigawa, Nigeria

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The Program Quality and Accountability (PQA) Officer will play a key role in implementing the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) funded by the UK Department for International Development, a joint project being implemented by Save the Children UK (SC) and Action Against Hunger (ACF). From 2013-2017, CDGP will provide 60,000 pregnant women and mothers with children under two with unconditional cash transfers and nutrition behaviour change communication training.

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Summary of Key Objectives: – Assist in establishment of PQA system into the CDGP to ensure compliance with donor objectives and methodology. – Ensure proper and timely implementation of PQA tools and all monitoring and evaluation reporting. – Document good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities – Represent ACF externally in relevant forums and working groups.

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Qualifications & Essential Skills: – Bachelor degree in science, social science, research, statistics or demography or related field. Higher level degree and/or significant M&E expertise preferred. – Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive – Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills – Proven ability to translate evaluated results into learning strategies. – Experience in monitoring and evaluating. donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities – Skills on statistical and other software (MS Excel, SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.) – Fluency in Hausa and English – Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word) – Experience in humanitarian PQA or M & E. – Experience in designing and leading internal and external evaluation. – Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams. – Familiarity with Management Information Systems (Databases) and GIS.

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ESSENTIAL: – Previous working experience in Northern Nigeria – Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming. – Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers).

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