Programme Officer, Infrastructure Engineering
- Salary (full time):₦8,114,408 Salary (full time)
- Full time salary:8114408
- Type of contract:Fixed Term
- Contracted hours:35
- Contract length:11 months
- Location:Mongunu
- Closing date:2 January 2020
- Interview date:16 January 2020
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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 Humanitarian and Sustainable Development, Democracy and Good Governance and Health and Human Development.
About the role
The Infrastructure Programme Engineer (IPE) will be responsible for designing and implementing all infrastructure construction project activities in the target communities in Monguno LGA, both directly and indirectly through training/mentoring of project community volunteers and Infrastructure Construction Program Assistants (CPAs), linking up with Borno state Ministry of Reconstruction Rehabilitation & Resettlement (RRR), other NGO and private sector actors at the community level. The IPE will provide community infrastructure project construction supervision, promote values and participatory approaches at the community level throughout the projects’ cycle. This will include awareness raising and sensitisation on all related program activities, Pre and Post Activities Monitoring (PAM) as well as monitoring and evaluation under the direct supervision of the Programme Coordinator. During the absence of the Program Coordinator, the IPE will wholly be accountable for the project infrastructure construction under the direct supervision of the Senior Programme Coordinator Maiduguri.
About you
You must have a minimum of a Degree in Civil Engineering and any relevant field with at least 3 years’ experience. You must have substantial experience in implementing community-level development projects, using participatory engagement and grassroots mobilization techniques. You must have experience working on value chain actors and their service providers (Private BDS providers). You must have experience working on disaster risk reduction, farmer field schools, asset transfer and revolving fund management, community-based saving and lending groups. You must have excellent training and facilitation skills with a wide variety of groups having diverse experiences, backgrounds, skills, and education levels. You are required to have experience in handling grants to local groups, ensuring appropriate basic documentation and accountability at the community/field level. You must have excellent verbal communication and listening skills. You must be able to speak at least one local language predominant in that state.
We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in the 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 results
Tell us about a time when you had to make recommendations or take decisions after analysing data, information and other evidence. What was the background? What recommendations or decisions did you have to take? What was your particular task or responsibility? What actions did you take? How did you analyse the information and data? What was the outcome? Were you successful?
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?
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