Ongoing recruitment at Taimako Community Development Initiative (TCDI)

Taimako Community Development Initiative (TCDI) is one of the frontline National Non-governmental organizations working in Bauchi, Borno and Yobe States with over a decade experience in providing humanitarian and development services in the North East Nigeria. It has partnered with numerous government agencies, National and International NGOs as well as UN Agencies in the design, planning, implementation, and supervision of programmes and activities aimed at improving the lives of rural and urban communities.

The organization has footprints across the focal states and has been engaging with communities through its network of field workers and volunteers. TCDI was established in 2008 and registered with the Federal Government of Nigeria under the Corporate Affairs Commission (C.A.C.), Abuja on 23rd May 2014 with registration number IT/69569 and other regulatory bodies in the focal states.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Scope Officer

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Coordinate the registration of beneficiaries into the SCOPE platform for cash-based transfers and food assistance.
• Supervise the Scope Registration Team, ensuring daily field activities are conducted efficiently.
• Plan and oversee the distribution of Scope cards to beneficiaries and ensure data accuracy.
• Conduct training for staff on the Scope system, focusing on efficient planning, coordination, and monitoring.
• Prepare and submit project reports, including spending plans, procurement, and work plans based on approved budgets.
• Collaborate with WFP to ensure compliance with beneficiary data protocols.
• Monitor field activities, ensuring that staff adhere to safeguarding principles and program policies.
• Assist in developing beneficiary databases, ensuring accurate data entry and reporting.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 3+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Lead the monitoring and evaluation of project activities, ensuring alignment with program goals and objectives.
• Collect, analyze, and report on data to track program progress and impact.
• Supervise MEAL Assistants and field enumerators, ensuring timely and accurate data collection.
• Develop tools and methodologies for monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Ensure that complaints and feedback from beneficiaries are addressed promptly and effectively.
• Conduct field visits to assess project outcomes, identify challenges, and suggest corrective actions.
• Prepare reports and share findings with the Program Manager for decision-making and strategy adjustment.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 3+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Finance Assistant

Location: Damaturu, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Assist in the preparation of financial reports, ensuring accuracy and compliance with donor regulations.
• Process payments, including staff salaries, vendor invoices, and field expenses.
• Maintain accurate financial records, ensuring they are organized and readily available for audits.
• Support budget monitoring and tracking of project expenditures.
• Ensure financial data is entered accurately in the system, and all supporting documentation is filed.
• Assist in preparing monthly financial statements for submission to TCDI management.
• Support in coordinating financial audits and implementing recommendations from audits.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Nutrition Officer

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Manager, the Nutrition Officer will carry out the following responsibilities:

• Conduct Nutrition Risk Assessments at the community level in partnership with other stakeholders, during the course of the project.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Supervise the Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM) staff.
• Conduct capacity building and training of staff and CFM team on Nutrition-related thematic areas such as child Nutrition, GBV, Nutrition mainstreaming, and confidentiality of Nutrition data.
• Provide capacity building and training to TCDI enumerators and community-based volunteers on the TCDI and WFP Code of Conduct and safeguarding principles.
• Ensure that the “Do No Harm” and Humanitarian principles, Staff Code of Conduct, PSEAH, Nutrition and Safe Guarding policies are respected by all stakeholders.
• Coordinate and develop activities for women-friendly spaces
• Lead the Organization on awareness sessions and workshops on general Nutrition
• Ensure the identification, management, referrals, and follow-up of Nutrition cases, with urgent needs.
• Develop appropriate Nutrition key massages and IEC materials, and ensure that they are disseminated among the communities.
• Disseminate relevant information regarding the rights of the person of concern and services available in the area in other to enhance access to services and rights.
• Proactively seek to access people who have missed out on assistance, such as marginalized communities’ new arrivals or households whose situation has suddenly deteriorated
• Ensure Nutrition is mainstreamed in TCDI/WFP programs in the field and workplaces.
• Support and contribute to the field assessment, data collection and storage in a database, report writing, and sharing community feedback and concerns.
• Report immediately any Nutrition breach during the implementation of activities to management.
• Represent TCDI at Nutrition coordination meetings, both at the WFP and regional entities.
• Coordinate and supervise facilitators during the session on women-friendly spaces.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Ensure to carry out any other duties that will be assigned by the Programme Manager.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 3+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Cash Based Transfer (CBT) Officer

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Facilitate community mobilization, meetings, and training before the redemption and cash-out activities
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Work with Project Management Committees (PMC) to ensure TCDI and WFP receive feedback from the beneficiaries on the project, including information on complaints related to food quality and the conduct of the vendors/retailers.
• Coordinate sensitization of beneficiaries so that they are aware of project objectives, project modalities, entitlements, right to complain, complaint modalities, and redemption/cash out days.
• Represent TCDI in the field with community leaders, local authorities, and other humanitarian actors. Conduct regular meetings with stakeholders, prepare minutes and reports and share with the Project Manager.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of the Field Monitors, and by ensuring their presence in the field, keeping track of their attendance, submitting accurate information for their payment at the field level, and providing instructions to them on the planned activities
• Build the capacity of the Field Monitors by regular training/coaching,
• Coordinate and supervise the monitoring of monthly redemption and cash-out activities: conduct market price monitoring, conduct vendor’s price monitoring, shop monitoring, and ensure that beneficiaries receive their full entitlement and are treated with dignity and not taken advantage of.
• Conduct monthly meetings with the vendors/agents to ensure that their activities are fully in compliance with WFP regulations, and represent beneficiaries’ interests in such meetings.
• Timely report any irregularities to the Project Manager.
• Prepare and submit timely weekly activity reports to the Project Manager.
• Design monthly CBT work plan. Prepare and submit a monthly report on redemption/cash-out activities to the CBT Manager/Deputy Project Manager for their further compilation and sharing with the donor.
• Exercise extreme precaution and confidentiality when handling the personal data of project beneficiaries.
• Together with the SCOPE officer, coordinate the distribution of SCOPE cards to targeted beneficiaries.
• Support the M&E team in the analysis of beneficiary data collection through the various tools that the department uses.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on the implementation of conditional and unconditional cash transfer planned activities
• Support the program team in facilitating the process of setting up the Complaint Response Mechanism at the Ward/ LGA level and handling complaint/feedback.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Nutrition Assistant

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Provide technical support and assist in the development and implementation of various nutrition-related activities and processes supporting alignment with wider programme guidelines.
• To be committed to and to promoting TCDI’s safeguarding principles of the people and communities we are working for, and TCDI staff and partners
• Participate in regular field visits and meetings to gather and verify information needed to understand the needs of the most vulnerable communities and targeted groups
• Sensitize TCDI’s beneficiaries and local communities on nutrition information and answer any nutrition queries raised by the beneficiaries at the community level as advised by the direct supervisor
• Undertake standard data entry tasks under defined systems, to ensure information is organized and readily available
• Support the management and implementation of the community-level nutrition projects to ensure that the various nutrition activities are performed within the established targets following TCDI’s policies and procedures
• Prepare a range of reports by reviewing and interpreting analyzed data.
• Ensure and/or perform the accurate, timely recording of data for the nutrition projects and ensure consistency of information
• Closely collaborate with functional units to support effective collaboration, implementation, and monitoring of ongoing project activities
• Coordinate and connect with local colleagues and ensure follow-up on community activities.
• Conduct regular monitoring and field visits to project sites for evaluating project efficiency, identifying problems, and instituting corrective measures
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Refer cases of Nutrition needs once identified by field visits
• Regularly reporting and coordinating with the Nutrition focal person
• Perform any other duty as may be required.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Complaint and Feedback Mechanism (CFM) Assistant

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Assist the Nutrition Officer in establishing and managing the complaint and feedback mechanism project
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• To be committed to and to promoting TCDI’s safeguarding principles of the people and communities we are working for, and TCDI staff and partners
• Receive complaints and feedback and respond to inquiries at the complaint desk at distribution sites.
• Ensure regular maintenance of complaints and feedback database/ information System and ensure information is shared regularly.
• Carry out regular community feedback functions, ensuring that all SOPs and TCDI core policies are respected.
• Maintenance of an effective record and filing system for all complaints solved and pending issues including correspondences.
• Lodge all feedback, complaints, and response in the CFM database.
• Support to ensure complaints are closed within the appropriate timeframe.
• Provide accurate information related to the subject beneficiary matter and other related ongoing activities.
• Ensure accurate recording of all the data related to the beneficiary.
• Submit internal, and accurate reports to the Nutrition and CBT Officers. The reports will be submitted weekly, or daily according to the urgency of the complaint; include monthly recommendations, if needed, to the Programme Manager as received.
• Follow-up and receive weekly feedback, and case status progress.
• Ensure all documents and actions taken are documented, and feedback is given back to the beneficiary.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required that may be assigned from time by supervisors.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Regularly reporting and coordinating with the Nutrition focal person
• Perform any other duty as may be required by TCDI.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: SCOPE Assistant

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Coordinate the registration of beneficiaries into the Scope platform
• To be committed to and to promote TCDI’s safeguarding principles of the people and communities we are working for, and TCDI staff and partners
• Promote a positive profile of the programme and a good understanding in the communities of the Scope registration
• Supervise the Scope Registration Team and provide appropriate guidance and oversight as they conduct daily field activities
• Plan and follow the activities of the Scope such as voluntary returnees’ registration and distribution of Scope cards during enrolment for GFD / BSFP
• Facilitate the training of Scope project staff on the Scope online / offline system focusing on efficient planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring
• Prepare and submit all Scope project internal and external reports
• Draft scope budget including spending plans, procurement plans, and work plans based on activities and approved budgets
• Receive and inspect all incoming assets for CBT and report discrepancies to senior colleagues and partner units
• Perform basic beta testing and support the rollout of new versions of centrally supported systems to ensure the software is operational from WFP
• Ensure information is up to date and accurate within inventories, beneficiaries’ databases, websites, and archives to support other project officers in their reporting systems
• Follow set emergency response processes and procedures as required to provide support in enabling emergency food assistance needs to be met
• Support the capacity building of staff aimed at developing staff skills/knowledge
• Receive lists of potential mobile money beneficiaries, review, compare and validate them
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Regularly reporting and coordinating with the SCOPE focal person at WFP
• Refer cases of Nutrition needs once identified by field visits
• Perform any other work as may be required by TCDI.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Logistics Assistant

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Maintain computer and manual filing systems and handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
• As applicable to all positions, you are to maintain a clear understanding of TCDI safeguarding policies
• Regularly reporting and coordinating with the LSO,
• Take inventory records during offload and download
• Maintain contact lists of ad hoc staff, and their activities and provide general support to visitors
• Submit and reconcile records of inventory and report to LSO
• Ensure cleanliness of warehouse and equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs and maintenance
• Maintain supplies inventory by checking stock through ensuring FIFO & LIPO to ensure effective resource management;
• Support LSO to develop a plan for anticipating supplies and deployment orders
• Support LSO to verify receipt of supplies
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, participating in coordination meetings, and establishing personal networks
• Carry out administrative duties such as filing, typing, copying, binding, scanning, data entry
• Support SLO to coordinate procedures and management of appointments
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Perform any other duty as may be required.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Security Assistant

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Support the Security Coordinator to conduct regular security and risk assessments to identify safety and security needs;
• As applicable to all positions, you are to maintain a clear understanding of TCDI safeguarding policies
• Support Security Unit to provide regular briefings and updates as necessary;
• Liaise with UN agencies, NGOs, and other external actors to share security information as appropriate;
• Ensure vehicle and staff movements are monitored according to procedures. Ensure availability, monitoring, and tracking of necessary and functional safety and security equipment;
• Regularly travel to the field with the emergency programme team, gather security information, and provide updated security-related information to the field staff;
• Proactively contact members of this information network to collect information on security to provide advice to the Security Coordinator on day-to-day security issues;
• Immediately report all breaches of safety and security procedures and all threats to TCDI staff, beneficiaries, activities, or assets.
• Alert the Security Coordinator to important events, from monitoring local and international news and social media in English and local languages, as well as via security alert systems;
• Maintain a close vigilance on the local political and military situation in the region and provide updates to the Security Coordinator on regular basis.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Perform any other duty as may be required by TCDI.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 3+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Community Mobilization Assistant (CMA)

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Job Description

• Provides support in the implementation, organization, follow-up, and reporting of community mobilization activities of the TCDI’sprogram in close collaboration with the TCDI’s team and partners
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• The Community Mobilization Assistant implements and supervises the activities in the communities to strengthen coverage of nutrition awareness through BSFP, GFD/CBT, and any other activities
• Undertake Community Mobilization Activities in collaboration with the team.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Support the health facilities with Nutrition Awarenesstraining
• To participate actively in BSFP, CBT/GFD, and other related activities in the community
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Partake on any other activity that may be required by TCDI or its partner.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess an OND qualification with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Assistant

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Install and configure new computer hardware for improving and upgrading system performance; support any technology upgrades as required.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Conduct data collection and entry of beneficiaries and other related data
• Develop technical skills and knowledge through training to members of staff.
• Carry-out system and equipment maintenance tasks, such as backup system data and system Nutrition, to ensure they are running effectively and enable easy and efficient use.
• Receive and inspect all ICT incoming assets for TCDI and or partners.
• Ensure information is up to date and accurate within inventories, databases, websites, and archives to ensure systems efficiency.
• With direction from senior colleagues, collate information to be participants’ attendance after activities like training, distribution, etc., and make them available in due course.
• Respond to queries, understand and resolve issues, and ensure technology policies, procedures, systems, and tools are accurately applied to support staff.
• Support the capacity building of staff through the organization and/or review of training programs aimed at developing skills/knowledge.
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Perform other ICT or non-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Candidates should possessB.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Cash Based Transfer (CBT) Assistant

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Compile lists of HHs beneficiaries captured for cash assistance by the supervisor;
• To be committed to and promoting TCDI’s safeguarding principles of the people and communities we are working for, staff, and partners
• Preparation of the supporting document for the release of cash transfer
• Provide regular verbal feedback on field observations and verification findings to the Cash Distribution Officer
• To provide daily distribution reports to the Cash Distribution Officer, including accurate figures of distributions done and challenges encountered, in the agreed format
• Provide clear briefings to HHs beneficiaries of the CBT recipients on the field about the Feedback and Complaint channels
• Ensure proper and safe filing of all cash distribution-related documents (receipts, pictures, field tracking tools, hard-signed copies, and scanned copies)
• Ensure the period of cash assistance is tracked for all selected beneficiaries
• Refer cases of Nutrition needs once identified by field visits
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Perform any other duty as may be required by TCDI.

Requirements

• Candidates should possessB.Sc Degrees with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Janitor

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Be responsible for maintaining a cleanly facility by completing a variety of cleaning tasks
• To be committed to and promoting TCDI’s safeguarding principles of the people and communities we are working for, staff, and partners
• Washes windows and mirrors
• Takes out the trash and recycling
• Wipes down and sanitizes surfaces
• Cleans sanitizes, and stocks restrooms
• To act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding, child, and adult Nutrition concerns, providing timely, relevant support and advice
• Perform any other duty as may be required by TCDI

Requirements

• Candidates should possess an SSCE qualification with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Cash Based Transfer (CBT) Monitor

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Supervise and monitor cash-based transfer activities, ensuring that beneficiaries receive their entitlements.
• Ensure that all vendors and retailers comply with WFP regulations and provide quality services to beneficiaries.
• Monitor market prices and ensure that beneficiaries are not taken advantage of during cash-out activities.
• Prepare and submit reports on CBT activities, including beneficiary attendance and vendor performance.
• Ensure that feedback and complaints from beneficiaries are addressed promptly.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess an OND qualification with 2+ years relevant work experience.

Job Title: Driver

Locations: Machina and Nguru, Yobe

Job Description

• Provide transportation services for staff and materials between project locations and to field sites.
• Ensure the vehicle is maintained in good working condition, conducting regular checks on fuel, oil, water, and other essential vehicle systems.
• Maintain accurate logbooks for vehicle usage, including details of mileage, fuel consumption, and maintenance activities.
• Follow TCDI/WFP safety protocols and adhere to local traffic laws while ensuring the safety of passengers and cargo.
• Support the logistics team in loading and unloading project supplies and equipment.
• Assist in maintaining cleanliness and hygiene of the vehicle, ensuring it is stocked with necessary first aid kits and safety equipment.
• Report any mechanical issues or accidents to the supervisor promptly.
• Act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding concerns raised during travel and field activities.
• Perform other duties as required by the logistics team to ensure smooth project operations.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess an OND qualification with 3+ years relevant work experience.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:

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Note

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Qualified female and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.
• Please note, given the urgency of vacancy, the position may be filled before the due date.

Application Deadline 6th January, 2025.