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Christian Aid (CA) is a UK-based international NGO, partnering with others to end poverty in Africa. At the heart of this vision is the transformation of the lives of people who live in poverty, empowering them to have a brighter future. Christian Aid works in more than 30 countries and has been operating in Nigeria since 2003. The Nigeria Country programme focuses on Community Health and HIV, Accountable Governance including humanitarian response and Gender.

About the Role:

The role is in the MEAL program family. The role is key in developing, and implementing programs strategy across a country program, region and division, whilst leading on partner portfolio projects. The role is key in developing and implementing programme strategy across a country, region or division, whilst leading on partner portfolio projects. The role also manages a team who recommend projects to partners and engage in Christian Aid Humanitarian response. The role ensures Christian Aid is represented appropriately and positive relationships are developed thorough the MEAL work that this role is involved in. The role holder will support Christian Aid’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Nigeria with special focuses on monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning sector interventions. She/he will support Christian Aid’s funded programmes which are implemented by Christian Aid and it partners in Borno and other northeast states. The role holder will assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of Christian Aid’s MEAL & humanitarian response, providing effective and timely support (including capacity building) to liberated communities and partner organizations, enabling them to implement the rapid, effective and principled MEAL response to emergencies, and ensuring that this is in line with Christian Aid’s country strategy and Humanitarian Standards. The role holder will be representing CAID in sector working groups meetings/activities and engage in the right networks, while increasing the profile of CA Humanitarian and resilience work and its visibility in the region.

About You.

The post holder should have a first degree in social sciences or BSC in mathematics, economics, statistics, biostatistics, engineering with 4-5 year experience of working in humanitarian response with local and/international partner organizations. She/he should have strong positive attitude and ability to manage a wide range of issues of complicated procedures, indicated by 4-5 years learning period. She/he should be familiar MEAL context in the northeast Nigeria. Ability to communicate fluently in Hausa and English language is an added advantage.

Further information:

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Deliver Result

Please give us an example of a time when you had to say no to another colleague or team because of other priorities while acknowledging their needs. What was the situation? What were the competing priorities? What was your task? What action(s) did you take? What was the effect of you saying no? What was the outcome(s)? What did you learn from the experience?

Communicate effectively

Give us an example of a time when you communicated something complex in a way that could be easily understood by others. What was the situation? What did you need to communicate effectively? How did you make sure the message was understood by others? What was the impact? How did you know you were successful?

Steward Resources

Please tell us about a time when you were able to take action to end or reduce the inefficient use of resources. What was the context? What was expected of you?  What action(s) did you take? What was the impact of your actions? In what way(s) were you successful?

Documents

• MEAL COORDINATOR ROLE PROFILE.pdf (292.20 KB)

Please tell us about a time when you were able to take action to end or reduce the inefficient use of resources. What was the context? What was expected of you?  What action(s) did you take? What was the impact of your actions? In what way(s) were you successful?