Mercy Corps · Nigeria · via MyJobMag

Mercy Corps has been present in Nigeria since 2012, focusing its interventions on humanitarian assistance, economic development, and conflict mitigation. With the ongoing insurgency in Northeast Nigeria causing the displacement of millions of individuals, Mercy Corps started its humanitarian response in 2014 to address the rising humanitarian needs.

As the crisis has persisted, Mercy Corps’ strategy has also expanded to address the root causes of the conflict and seek to build the long-term resilience of communities with integrated programs focusing on governance, the recovery of markets and livelihoods, social cohesion and social protection, youth empowerment, and local conflict management.

The Cash Transfer Program Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of multisectoral cash and voucher assistance activities using systems in place to support cash transfer programming in Northeast Nigeria.

The Cash Transfer Program Officer will work closely with the Field Manager, MEL team, and operations staff including finance and operations to ensure that activities are implemented according to schedule, budget and required quality.

• Recognize opportunities to evolve the current humanitarian portfolio into a more effective and impactful portfolio addressing the changing needs of conflict-affected populations.
• Contribute to countrywide strategy development.

Representation and Coordination:

• Identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships with communities, local authorities and other stakeholders.
• Ensure effective coordination with relevant working groups, UN, ICRC and colleagues I/NGO agencies.
• Oversee the implementation of Cash-Based intervention activities and administration of the teams across program field locations.
• Develop activity work plans and manage day-to-day activity implementation.
• Ensure that program implementation is responsive to community needs, meets targets, and is carried out in line with best practices.
• Ensure that beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to vulnerability criteria.
• Establish and maintain effective program reporting, and monitoring and evaluation systems to track, analyze and report on results for both internal and external use.
• Integrate community approaches, protection mainstreaming, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate.
• Ensure program filing system is in place, adheres to internal and donor regulation and filing is regularly maintained.
• Adhere to all MC policies related to security, operations and transport/ logistics information related to programming.
• Supervise, hire, and orient team members, as necessary.
• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

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