Recruitment at The Zamfara State Agency Community and Social Development Project

Zamfara State is implementing the World Bank Assisted Community and Social Development Project Additional Financing (CSDP-AF). The project’s Development Objective (PDO) is “to sustainably increase access of poor people, and particularly internally displaced people in the North east of Nigeria, to improved social services in a sustainable manner throughout Nigeria .“ In the light of the above and in pursuance of the project objective, vacancy is hereby advertised for the position below:     Job Title: Operation Officer Location: Zamfara Responsibilities

• Sensitize and mobilize communities on CSDP project objectives and activities as well as issues related to HIV/AIDS,
• Facilitate communities to undertake needs assessment and prioritization that are socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable;
• Supervise the implementation of the CDPs to ensure quality assurance;
• Ensure timely replenishment of accounts of the CPMCs;
• Collect, collate and forward to the M&E Department, information/data on micro projects activities in communities;
• Submission of monthly, quarterly and annual departmental reports to M&E Department on schedule, through the Manager, Operations;
• Facilitate communities in the formulation of COP in line with (b)above;
• Build capacity of the CPMCs and LGRC Desk Officers, as appropriate, through providing training in requisite areas e.g Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRAs), record and bookkeeping, project management, main-streaming gender, environmental and natural resources issues etc, as identified by Project officer-IEC and Training
• Set monthly and quarterly performance targets based on the work plan;
• Submit regular reports to the project officer or relevant section for whose activity they are deployed at any point in time.
• Responsible to the Project officer, Supervision

• A first degree or HND in Engineering, Social Sciences, Biological and Natural Sciences, Business Administration, Accountancy or related field, with at least 1 year post qualification experience in any area.
• Computer literacy and willingness to learn and work extra hours and on weekends is a must.
• Applicants are not expected to be more than 35 years as at the time of recruitment and not above Grade level 09 if recruited from the civil service.

• A least a National Diploma with 5 years relevant experience.