JOB TITLE: Emergency Response Coordinator
JOB LOCATION: Maiduguri, Borno
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: Emergency Response
JOB DETAILS:
- We are looking for an Emergency and Rapid Response Coordinator (for our Maiduguri North Area Office).
- The Emergency and Rapid Response Coordinator reports to the Project Development Manager (Maiduguri).
- We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee to join our dynamic Team in Maiduguri in a fast pace humanitarian intervention situation
- S/he will contribute, develop, coordinate, implement, manage and delegate the Emergency Rapid Response project portfolio in Borno and support Adamawa State.
- To be successful in this role you will need excellent relationship-building skills, capable of establishing strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, and planning and coordinating of emergency relief response services in the humanitarian sector.
- An ideal candidate should be solution driven while supporting IDPs with new initiatives in service delivery with the ability to prioritise humanitarian needs and response.
- If you are a highly organised individual with a strong ability in emergency response program development, design and implementation, community engagement and comfortable with working in a remote environment and have previous experience in humanitarian response at the coordinator and managerial level, we would love to hear from you
Responsibilities
- Ensure project data collection and management and work closely with M&E to update relevant NRC tools (GORS, Internal Database, achievement and progress of project log frames)
- Line management of emergency staff
- Contribute to the design of technical implementation of beneficiary household level assessments and registration
- Contribute to donor reports
- Ensure that the team monitor displacement trends and new coming displaced person arrivals, prepare weekly reports
- Assist Project Officer in the designing and supervising distributions of aid
- Support Emergency Response Officers and Assistants based in field locations, including daily management, and technical guidelines as required
- Regular visits to the area and sites of implementation for quality checks of the ongoing and completed works, make corrections and provide relevant recommendations
- Compile other reports relative to the emergency response/RRM
- In collaboration with the shelter PDM and AM, play a key role in recruiting Emergency staff
- In coordination with the Emergency Manager, represent NRC in coordination meetings with local authorities and NGOs when requiring
- Regular visits to the area and sites of implementation for quality checks of the ongoing and completed works, make the correction and provide relevant recommendations.
- Record and document good practices, and lessons learned and establish a database in coordination with M&E to capture program performance.
Qualifications
- University Degree or Higher National Diploma in Social Work or any other relevant field
- Experience in conducting field-level data collection
- Understanding the latest developments and familiarity with current issues, trends and priorities in North East Nigeria
- Experience and knowledge of carrying out assessments
- Analytical, negotiation, communication and advocacy skills
- Experience in participating in distributions of humanitarian materials
- Fluent English, Hausa and Kanuri speaker
- Familiarity with international minimum standards of service delivery (i.e., SPHERE) is an advantage.
What’s in it for you?
- Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and to Join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility:
- At NRC we think creatively. We encourage ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that we face.
- You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.
- Learn on the job: NRC’s collaborative working style favours the exchange of good practice and lessons learnt.
- At NRC, employees learn on the job and are encouraged to look for opportunities to develop new competencies.
- NRC managers prioritise the quality work and the competency development of their staff.
- This entails giving newcomers a good start, following up, training and mentoring employees to allow them to perform well in their current job, and offering learning and development programmes.
Additional Information:
- Duty Station: Maiduguri, Nigeria – Duration of contract: 4 months renewable.
- Grade 7 in NRC’s grading structure – Reporting line: Project Development Manager.
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Note
- This position is open to National candidates only.
- We invite applications from all qualified and interested candidates.
- For further details, you can view the attached Job Description.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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