Mercy Corps Nigeria Food Security Co-Facilitator Jobs

Mercy Corps Nigeria Food Security Co-Facilitator Jobs

Reference Number: MDG/HUMOPS/2020/00044

Location:Maiduguri Borno,

General Position Summary

The FSS NGO Co-facilitator would be the NGO focal and representative who is responsible to collaboratively support the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of performance against key sector functions and accountabilities.

The leadership of the sector ensures partners participate in and assume their responsibilities to the sector as per relevant IASC principles (Annex 3 Partnerships) by placing Accountability for Affected Populations (AAP) at the centre of decision-making.
This position will be seconded to FSS and will be based in the FAO office Maiduguri and will have to follow the UN Protocols while all Operational Responsibilities will lie with Mercy Corps.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Strategy & Visionstrategy & Vision:

Support development and implementation of sector-level strategy through consultative and inclusive processes. Ensure sector perspectives include NGO expertise and viewpoints.

Ensure protection, gender and resilience are mainstreamed, while ensuring the different needs and capacities of women, girls, boys and men of all ages, people with disabilities and other diversity characteristics such as ethnicity and religion inform what sectors do, how, and with whom to promote meaningful access, safety and dignity.

Recognize opportunities for innovative action and create an environment where alternative viewpoints are welcomed.

Program Management:

Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination by maintaining appropriate links and dialogue with national and local authorities, local civil societies, and other relevant actors, while respecting their various individual mandates.

Coordinate effectively to strengthen inter-cluster coordination mechanisms by ensuring that NGOs are contributing. When required, ensure effective representation to additional coordination forums and decision-making mechanism such as the O/HCT and HCT.

Support program cycle and funding processes including participation in Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) appeals, and Humanitarian Fund allocations.

Participate in review of coordination mechanisms such as Peer to Peer processes and global cluster evaluations, to ensure monitoring of adaptiveness of the response and increased capacities of local actors.

Convene regular sector meetings, ensuring discussions are participatory

Analysis and Needs Identification:

Support coordination and conduct needs assessments with sector partners and other sectors

Develop and roll-out, utilizing global best practice, needs assessments that support rapid and longer-term interventions.

Monitor context and other pertinent operational trends and dynamics to ensure adaptiveness and responsiveness of partners and the overall sector.

Draft situation updates to inform interventions and advocacy.

Strengthen sector level and contextual analysis integration into partner responses.

Response Preparedness:

Support the sector to develop contingency planning and emergency preparedness measures that are measurable, impactful and overall timely, appropriate and coordinated to avoid gaps/ duplication.

Promote awareness and understanding of affected populations, identifying appropriate service providers.

Ensure sector partners are well represented in rapid response mechanisms e.g. Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM), and other contingency planning processes.

Technical Guidance:

Disseminate tools, guidance and promote practice that ensures integration/ implementation of sector minimum standards; protection; and humanitarian principles. This includes Accountability for Affected Persons (AAP), SPHERE, and others.

Provide technical advice where necessary and strengthen communities of practice to ensure coherence and consistency.

Ensure sector data collection efforts are in line with Protection Guidelines.

Influence & Representation:

Take reasonable actions to represent and strengthen NGO engagement in sector processes and broader coordination mechanisms.

Act as a focal point for receiving NGO concerns in order to raise these with the sector lead agency to strengthen the transparency of sector decisions and work

Develop sector level key messages and talking points around the sector response, needs of affected persons, and critical issues to inform humanitarian decision-making.

Identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships with consortium partners, sub-grantees, donors, local governments and other stakeholders.

Communicate effectively to ensure overall project targets and donor obligations are met.

FSS Support To FSS Members:

Ensure partners are effectively trained on sector tools, minimum standards, and cross-cutting themes to support interventions.

Identify opportunities to support National NGO capacity-building support to enable

partners to participate effectively in the sector.

Communicate effectively to ensure overall project targets and donor obligations are met.

Security:

Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.

Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

Accountability to Beneficiaries:

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically
to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values always and in all in-country venues.

Others:

Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission.

Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Experience:

Master’s degree in social science, food security, agriculture, economics, humanitarian affairs or related field;

Minimum of three years’ experience in the humanitarian sector on a leadership position;

More than 2-year experience of humanitarian coordination, participating, contributing to joint assessments, training, and coordination meetings are required.

Has significant knowledge and understanding of operational presence in crises affected areas and delivering sector interventions and the humanitarian architecture

Technical expertise in sector in Food Security in emergencies and coordination with an aspect of incorporating cross-cutting issues such as protection, resilience, gender, HIV/AIDS among others.

Demonstrable commitment to the sector and providing full term support.

Excellent interpersonal skills including communication (listening, speaking, writing) are required.

Willingness to work and travel in often difficult and insecure environments.

Competency in internet and Microsoft Office systems including Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Working knowledge of English

Experience of the country or region of deployment is desirable

Success Factor:

The successful candidate will be proactive, creative and a problem solver.

S/he will be conscientious with an excellent sense of judgment.

S/he will be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and will be capable of multitasking.

S/he will demonstrate a strong understanding of the cultural and social environment in the region and have the willingness and ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people.

Mercy Corps team members represent the agency both during and outside work hours. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values always and in all in-country venues.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover letter in one document, addressing the position requirements, reference number and location to:

ng-recruitment.nigeria@mercycorps.org using the "Job Title & Reference Number" as the subject of the email.

Note

All applications must include the position title and reference number in the subject line

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview

We are an equal employment opportunity organization so women are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.


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