Nuru Nigeria is a local non-profit and non-governmental organisation working in rural areas of Northeast Nigeria. To build a resilience corridor through nutrition-sensitive regenerative agribusiness programming. Nuru Nigeria’s core approach is sustainable, community-led, community-driven, and profitable farmer organisations.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Community Training Assistant
Location: Toungo, Adamawa
Employment Type: Full-time
Responsibilities
Data collection:
- Support Nuru Nigeria M&E unit in the collection of primary data during training assessments and qualitative studies such as FGD, KII etc in communities of interest
- Support in conducting farm monitoring activities
- Collection of FA savings and loans record
Data Quality:
- Ensuring that Nuru Nigeria data collection activities are carried out in line with standard guidelines.
- Perform all required data quality checks as instructed during data collection
- Pre-test and refine tools to ensure they are effective
Documentation:
- Proper records and documentation of all study materials & attendance sheets.
- Daily updates on activity progress
- Program support
Community Engagement:
- Interface between the community and the organization to promote organizational goals and ensure close integration of the intervention in the community to ensure community ownership, community led intervention.
- Support in mobilizing community members for Nuru Nigeria activities
- Relay up-to-date security information about events in NN intervention communities and its environ as accurate as possible to NN security focal person/backstop
- Conduct community engagements when NN staff are unavailable to physically attend field activities
- Provide ongoing support and guidance on data collection and reporting.
- Conduct step down training to farmers
- Enforce and support the incorporation of M&E systems in farmer group activities
- Provide feedback to project teams based on community trends and findings that are likely to affect program implementation.
Monitoring:
- Monitor Farmer Association (FA)financial inclusion activities
- Support the community field agents (CFAs) in monitoring of the demonstrations plots
- Monitoring of FA activities (meetings)
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned by your supervisor
Requirements
- HND/Bachelor degree in Agriculture, Management, Sciences, Social Research, Development Studies, Linguistics or a related field and 6 months of experience in data collection.
- Diploma Plus 2 years of experience in data collection using surveys, focus groups, or interviews
- Speaks, reads, and writes fluently in English and Hausa.
- Resident and familiarity with the terrain in the community of intervention
- Proven interest & commitment to humanitarian and development principles
- Strong attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to build rapport and comply with ethical research in the field
- Team player with positive attitude
- Flexibility in a fast-paced, evolving work environment
- Good communication and public speaking skills
- Zeal to stay updated on best practices and new developments in M&E
- Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
- Demonstrated ability to operate in both office and field settings.
Preferred:
- Chamba, Hausa and English fluency
- Experience using and reading maps
- Previous experience as an Enumerator or Research Assistant working with NGOs
- Excellent computer applications skills. Particularly MS Word and Excel programs.
- Experience using Mobile data collection platforms
- Experience leading teams of enumerators
- Conduct Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs)
- Experience in facilitating adult learning
- Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Application Closing Date
27th August, 2024.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@nurunigeria.orgusing the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Non-discriminatory Employment Clause
- Applicants will not be discriminated against on the basis of ethnicity, colour, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, age, disability or health status. The management of Nuru Nigeria reserves the right to verify all of the applicant’s information and conduct background checks on shortlisted candidates including reaching out to his/her previous employer.
- Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.