Jobs at COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale, Tuesday 20 February 2018 – COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale, is a helpful, non-confession booth and autonomous association established in 1965 in Milan, Italy.
For over 50 years we have been devoted to breaking the cycle of neediness and to supporting populaces influenced by wars, financial emergencies or catastrophic events in their way to recuperation and maintainable advancement, by making utilization of the polished skill of nearby and worldwide administrators, and through our associations with open and private bodies and common society associations.
AREA COORDINATOR
LOCATIONS: (Potiskum, Damaturu) Yobe and Maiduguri, Borno.
SCOPE OF THE VACANCY
We are looking for 3 Area Coordinators for the bases of Potiskum, Damaturu and Maiduguri.
The Area Coordinator is responsible for the overall management, execution and reporting of the projects managed from his/her base.
He/she is directly assigned to, and responsible of the supervision of all logistics, HR, financial and overall functioning aspects for the projects and of the base.
MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the direct supervision of the Head of Mission and in link with the Coordination, he/she ensures COOPI intervention coordination in his/her area of intervention. He/She:
Coordinates the implementation of the country strategy in his/her area of intervention:
Participate in the development and updating of the country strategy by providing information from the field
Ensuring the implementation in the field of the part of the country strategy for which he/she is responsible in collaboration with the head of Mission, the Program Coordinator and the project Managers.
Coordinates the implementation of programs in the field:
Coordinate and control the implementation of planned projects
Coordinate in the field the development of new projects in collaboration with program coordinator and project managers.
Supervise the support services activities at field level, in collaboration with the support department managers
Guarantee synergy between technical and support teams at field level
Ensure the implementation of recommendations from internal audits / departmental field visits / field assessments
Manages the team in his/her area of intervention:
Supervise and manage the members of his/her team under his/her direct responsibility
Participate in the recruitment of his/her direct team (for expatriate staff in his area of intervention at the request of the Head of Mission)
Monitor the social climate in its area of intervention and alert the Head of Mission in case of difficulties or social demands
Ensure the global management of training needs for his/her team
Encourage compliance with the charter and the fight against fraud and abuse of power and alert the Head of Mission in case of fraud or abuse of power.
Facilitates good relationship with coordination team:
Keep the coordination team informed about program delivery
Proactively solicit coordination team for any question that could jeopardize programs, funding; or the safety of teams and equipments
Ensure that field teams clearly articulate requests for support to the coordination team to maximize operational effectiveness and programs’ impact
In general, play a facilitating role between the “field” and the “coordination”
Manage the follow-up of recommendations from the technical and support departments
Represents COOPI and ensures relations with partners, authorities, UN agencies and NGOs in its area of intervention:
Coordinate and supervise all partnerships
Participate in humanitarian coordination activities
If necessary, implement at the local level the strategy and advocacy activities defined by the mission
Ensures the reporting and the communication:
Coordinate the reporting activities with the Program Managers in the field in accordance with donors and the HQ requirements (type and quality of information)
Coordinate the establishment of a program capitalization system to provide evidence to carry out advocacy activities
Implementation good communication practices
Manage the safety and security of his/her area of intervention:
Follow the evolution of the security environment (networking, gathering and analysis of information …)
Maintain an effective network with local stakeholders on issues of context and security, collect and analyze information to establish context analysis and risk analysis.
Regularly Update the Local Security Plan with the support of the Logistics Manager and the security officer and send it to the Head of Mission
Briefe teams on context and security
Guarantee compliance with safety rules with the support of the Logistics Department
Manage any security incidents and report to the Country Director
Actively participate in audits and ensure implementation of recommendations
PROFILE OF THE CANDIDATE (EDUCATION, TRAINING, COMPETENCES, SKILLS)
Minimum Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in Humanitarian field.
- At least 3 years of working experience in/with INGO on project management and with at least 1-year experience as Head of base
- Proven interest & commitment to humanitarian and development principles and a demonstrable understanding of conflict/post conflict development contexts
- Experience in proposal writing, analysis, and report writing
- Excellent in English (oral and written)
- Experience in security management
- Ability to plan, organize work, communicate and reports effectively (both in writing and verbally)
- Proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
- Team player, effective communicator, successful negotiator, creative and analytical thinker, active learner, able to work in a multicultural environment
- Excellent communication skills, calm, with a good sense of humour
- Proven commitment to accountability practices
- Ability to function effectively under stressful conditions such as heavy workloads, and deadlines.
- Ability to leave in a restricted area with curfew.
- Excellent Microsoft Office applications skills (Excel, Word, Power point, Emails, Skype, Web researchers)
- Knowledge of and adherence to COOPI Code of Conduct, understands other international development guidelines.
COUNTRY ADMINISTRATOR
Location: Abuja (this is a non family duty station)
Start Date: 5th March, 2018.
OBJECTIVES
We are looking for a highly qualified Country Administrator with overall responsibility for supervision, management and quality implementation of all aspects of COOPI financial and administrative operations in Nigeria.
The Country Administrator will be part of the senior management team and is expected to contribute to the future strategic development and professional dynamics of COOPI in Nigeria.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Safe and bank account management:
He/she ensures the correct management of the safes and the project’s bank accounts, by directly managing or by regularly controlling the project accountant, if available.
Accountancy management:
He/she ensures the correct project accountancy and all accountancy documents filing.
He/she does this by monitoring the accountants or by directly performing the accountancy, in case there was no accountant.
Administrative management:
In collaboration with the project manager he/she verifies the correct administrative management of the projects (contracts, goods and services purchase, calls for tenders etc.) in compliance with COOPI and the donor’s procedures (ECHO, UNICEF, UN Agencies, AICS, USAid/OFDA, FFP).
He/she ensures the correct filing of all project’s administrative documents.
Expenses planning and monitoring:
In collaboration with the Project Manager (and the logistician if present) he/she makes the project’s financial planning.
He/she monitors expenses, in accordance with the budget.
He/she provides the accountancy data to the Project Manager so as to allow him to monitor and plan the expenditures and to request funds.
Contract modifications and administrative documents:
He/she collaborates with the Project Manager in the elaboration of contract modifications (including the budget), and in the preparation of all necessary projects documents.
Financial reporting:
In coordination with the Head of Mission and with the Project Manager he/she prepares the intermediate and final financial reports for the projects under his/her responsibility.
Budget preparation:
Support the Head of Mission and Project Managers in budget preparation as well as proposals development.
Staff management:
He/she plans the work, supervises, and collaborate to train the staff of the project’s accounting-administrative area upon request by the Head of Mission.
Upon request her/she collaborates to staff evaluation activities.
She/he will be the focal point of the complaint mechanism and the code of conduct.
Procurement:
He/she provide technical oversight to the procurement process and ensure proper supply chain management procedures are in place and that standard logistics and related administrative systems are established and implemented within COOPI country programme.
PROFILE OF THE CANDIDATE (EDUCATION, TRAINING, COMPETENCES, SKILLS)
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Minimum of 5 years’ relevant work experience in large organizations.
- At least 3 years’ work experience in a similar role within a international non-governmental organization (NGO), donor or multilateral agency.
- Substantial experience working with International NGO’s, UN agencies and networking and negotiating with authorities.
- Very strong financial analysis skills and an extensive practical experience working with financial tools, highly proficient with excel such as using pivot table, developing macros, etc.
- Ability to motivate and guide staff working in a complex conflict environment, preferably experience from an African context.
- Previous experience in Nigeria is an advantage.
- An excellent interpersonal skills (Good analytical, negotiation, advocacy and communication skills) and demonstrated ability to establish effective team and external relations
- Experience with capacity building of national staff.
- Ability to work under pressure in a rapidly changing and sometimes insecure environment
- Excellent English language skills both written and spoken are essential.
APPLICATION METHOD
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AREA COORDINATOR
COUNTRY ADMINISTRATOR
Due to security reasons, this is a non-family duty station
DEADLINE: 26 February, 2018
