COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale Child Protection Project Manager Job Vacancy

COOPI
Cooperazione Internazionale, is a humanitarian, non-confessional and
independent organization founded in 1965 in Milan, Italy. For more than 50
years we have been dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and to supporting
populations affected by wars, socio-economic crises or natural disasters in
their path to recovery and sustainable development, by making use of the
professionalism of local and international operators, and through our
partnerships with public and private bodies and civil society organizations.

We
are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job
Title: Child
Protection Project Manager, OFDA
Location: Maiduguri
Duration: 12 months renewable
Starting date: 25th September, 2017
Type of contract: Fixed Term Contract

Context
and Background

Since
the declaration of state of emergency in the Nigerian federal States of
Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, the escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency has
led to multiple displacement crises, with communities fleeing their area
of origin to take refuge in camps or host communities. In 2014 there was a
substantial increase in violence related to Boko Haram and the counter
insurgency operations, consequently creating acute and largely unmet
humanitarian needs, as IDPs are cut off from their homes and livelihoods,
basic services, kinship and social ties. In September 2014, COOPI began
operating in north eastern Nigeria in response to the humanitarian crisis
caused by the insurgency, established its operation in Bauchi State and
later expanded to Yobe State considering the heightened presence of IDPs
in the LGAs of Fika, Damaturu, Potiskum, Geidam and Yunusari.
Recently,
COOPI initiated a Food Security and Nutrition intervention in Kaga LGA
(Borno State) and establishes a presence in Maiduguri to launch an
Education and Protection projects. COOPI is currently operating in 5 LGAs
in Yobe State, reaching about 25,000 individuals among IDPs and host
communities with a multi-sectoral intervention covering nutrition, food
security and child protection COOPI has recently developed a cash &
voucher based response system in Nigeria to address the food insecure
communities while integrating this approach with a nutrition component –
community outreach, referral system, IYCF campaign and appropriate
therapeutic services addressed to malnourished children and pregnant and
breastfeeding women.

Role
Purpose

The
Child Protection Project Manager will be responsible for the technical
aspects of all child protection-related programming for COOPI emergency
response in Maiduguri and Borno State, which includes child protection
case management, psychosocial support and community based child protection
mechanisms, nutrition and IYCF related activities.
The
Child Protection Manager will be expected to lead on child
protection-related assessments, programme design and implementation and
coordination with stakeholders, in collaboration with Protection and
Education Program Manager and the Head of Mission.
As
well as this, she/he will oversee the monitoring & evaluation of child
protection activities and will be responsible for the development of donor
reporting.
The
Child Protection Project Manager is also expected to build the capacity of
the team, mainstreaming child protection across other sector of interventions
and ensuring coordination with the Protection Cluster at Maiduguri and
Abuja Level.

Responsibilities

Activity
planning and management: in cooperation with the project staff, he/she
plans and monitors the activities’ progress, in compliance with the
contract signed with the donor and with COOPI and the donor’s procedures.
Administrative
and financial management: in collaboration with the Project
Administrator/Administrative Coordinator he/she plans all expenditures to
make. He/she regularly monitors all made expenditures. He/she supervises
accounting and the project cash safe/bank account management and, where
there was no dedicated staff, he/she directly manages the accounting and
the project cash safe/bank accounts, making use of the instruments made
available by the organization (Merlino). In cooperation with the Project
Administrator and in coordination with the Administrative Coordinator
he/she prepares the Purchases Plan. He/she ensures the organization and
donor’s procedures respect when purchasing goods and services.
Reporting:
in coordination with the Head of Mission ad with the Administrative
Coordinator, he/she ensures the preparation, in compliance with the
deadlines, of all financial and narrative reports – interim and final –
expected by the project. He/she is responsible for the preparation of all
formal communication and contract modifications requests (ex. budget
modification) of the projects he manages.
Staff
Management: In coordination with the Head of Mission and in compliance
with the country’s rules/laws and with the COOPI’s regulation in the
country, he/she selects the local staff to be employed in projects, and
manages any other project’s expatriate staff. By making use of the
organization’s tools he/she evaluates the local staff employed for
projects and he/she participates to the evaluation of his/her own project,
upon request by his/her direct supervisor. He/she coordinates and
supervises the work done by all the project staff, in compliance with the
organization’s security procedures. He/she is responsible for the initial
and continuous training of the local staff under his/her responsibility.
Goods
management: he/she is responsible of the correct management of all goods
purchased for the project, both irectly and purchased by other
offices/field offices8. For all goods purchased by the project he/she
updates the inventory, in cooperation with the Administrative Coordinator.
Institutional
relations: In relation to the project of his/her competence, he/she
communicates with the donors’ officers, the local authorities which are
competent in the aspects related to the project, the project’s
partners and beneficiaries, in compliance with the organization’s
guidelines.
New
projects’ writing: upon request by his/her direct supervisor, and
cooperating with the project staff, he/she elaborates, writes and prepares
all necessary documents to present new projects, in accordance with the
organization’s processes and procedures.

Profile

Advanced
Degree in Protection or related field or equivalent work.
Five
years experience in the humanitarian field as project or programme manager
or in a similar position. Demonstrated experience in protection or related
field in fragile states, including IDPs, refugees and returnees context.
Strong
analytical and practical problem-solving skills;
Strong
supervisory abilities, and demonstrated capacity of teamwork and of
coordination with the relevant actors;
Very
good inter-personal and writing communication skills;
Ability
to organize work efficiently and deliver assignments in a timely manner
often under time constraints;
Proficiency
in written and spoken English;
Experience
of working within an insecure environment with responsibility for security
planning, monitoring and management.
Computer
literacy, with high proficiency in the use of standard office software
applications (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint);