Shelter and NFI Officer

Positive Action for Development (PAD) is an indigenous, non-governmental, humanitarian, and development organization legally registered at the federal level by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Charities and Societies Agency on June 6, 2011, with a registration number of 2330.

PAD would like to hire a qualified Shelter and NFI Officer for an EHF-funded project titled “Integrated responses to conflict-affected communities in Wara Jarso woreda of the Oromia region”.

ES/NFI Officer will be in charge of in charge of organizing activities including beneficiary targeting, verification, and Registration . Facilitating and Coordinating to conduct PDM, and producing related reports. Documentation and Data Management, Coordination with GO/NGO Partners, Ensuring the quality of delivered materials. Capacitate and train CFM Committees. Assist the humanitarian department in collecting the necessary data and participate in emergency assessment, tracking the prepositioning and dispatch of NFI items.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Program Manager and in coordination with the ESNFI area coordinator, the ESNFI Officer is primarily responsible for ensuring the distribution of NFI projects are implemented in line with the project design, Sphere and cluster standards and use the existing or developed systems to monitor the performance of these activities for hosting community, disaster-affected communities, health institutions, schools, refugees and internally displaced peoples. 

Specific responsibilities include the following

• Support the implementation of Shelter NFI activities including targeting, registration, verification, distribution, and follow-up, in coordination with Shelter NFI cluster and other relevant stakeholders.

• Develop draft distribution reports.

• Conduct post-distribution monitoring (PDM) exercises, analyze the results and draft PDM reports.

• Monitor the day-to-day implementation of project activities including undertaking of regular field visits to check compliance with the work plan, and project documents. Draft progress and other required reports. Identify and document significant project events, decisions, problems or deviations and ensure that project data and information is archived and shared appropriately.

• In close collaboration with the field team coordinate the release and delivery of required materials and items to the respective sites in a timely manner, check the quality of delivered material and provide relevant documentation and pipeline projections for planning purposes.

• Liaise with counterparts and implementing partners, draft progress and other required reports, and ensure that project data and information is archived and shared appropriately.

• Regularly visit project implementation sites, to gain a thorough understanding of how activities are being carried out and to give guidance to the team on areas for improvement.

• Prepare quality reports which have to be submitted to government and donors based on their reporting timeliness.

• Prepare and submitted daily, weekly and monthly reports and submit to project manager on the work progress.

• Ensure Sphere standards both qualitative and quantitative are considered and any departures documented.

• Enforce proper project information documentation using activities monitoring, lessons learned, and modifications done from lessons learned and communities’ feedback on project successes

• Ensure all authorities and communities are kept well informed of the Program success and challenges as appropriate.

• Assist with any other duties as required by the supervisors and stand by for any call for assistance in any place across the country where a demand is needed.

• Familiarize self, understand and implement, according to area of responsibility, PAD’s policies and procedures on mainstreaming of Gender, HIV/AIDS and Child Protection.

• Familiarize self and understand to PAD Donor Compliance issues, specifically to the terms and conditions of the Donor the Program is working on and comply with same in area of responsibility.

• While conducting trainings, make sure the training report and the signed attendees list is formally addressed to the program team for a central donor file.

Qualification: 

• Minimum BA or BSC Degree in social sciences etc. 

Experience: 

• Minimum 3 years experience in an emergency sector and knowledge of shelter and NFI

Skills Required, Attitudes, and Attributes: 

• Experience of working in Emergency projects specifically related to shelter, NFI & cash activities, coordination &basic computer skills are the basic ones.

• Good communication and negotiation skills with government and other agencies

• Flexible, reliable, culturally sensitive

• ability to work in teams/ isolated situations and stressful environments and under pressure to meet deadlines

• Planning and report writing skills 

• Good command of MS Package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)

• Knowledge of spoken & written Amharic, and English. Local language (if any) proficiency is advantageous

• References (will be crosschecked/contacted)

No required: one 

Duty Station: Warra Jarso woreda of the Oromia regions    

 Female applicants are encouraged to apply.

How To Apply

Application Process

Interested candidates must send the following application documents with the subject line, Shelter and NFI Officer, Warra Jarso

?      Motivation/Cover letter (not more than one page);

?      CV (not more than 4 pages) and relevant documents (education certificates, experience, and others) (Please note that the certificates and CV should be in one single file.) If you are passionate about peacebuilding and have the skills and experience to contribute effectively, we encourage you to apply for this position.

Note:

?      Only selected candidates will be contacted.

?      Applicant(s) who don’t follow the procedures will be disqualified immediately.

?      This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and may be subject to change based on organizational needs.

E-mail: job@padethiopia.org

Website: www.padethiopia.org

Telephone: 0948787677 or 0936342656 

PAD is an organization committed to upholding a zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of abuse and exploitation while actively working to protect and defend the rights and well-being of individuals.