Outreach Assistant – AGORA at ACTED

ACTED has been committed since 1993, to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED, headquartered in Paris, France is present in four continents and our teams intervene in 37 countries towards 14 million people, responding to emergency situations, supporting rehabilitation projects and accompanying the dynamics of development. Over 5,000 staff are dedicated to implementing and developing our projects.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Outreach Assistant – AGORA

Location: Borno

About AGORA

AGORA is a joint initiative of ACTED and IMPACT Initiatives, founded in 2016. AGORA promotes efficient, inclusive and integrated local planning, aid response and service delivery in contexts of crisis through applying settlement-based processes and tools. AGORA enables more efficient and tailored aid responses to support the recovery and stabilization of crisis-affected communities, contributing to meet their humanitarian needs, whilst promoting the re-establishment of local services and supporting local governance actors.
AGORA promotes multi-sectoral, settlement-based aid planning and implementation, structured around partnerships between local, national and international stakeholders. AGORA’s core activities include area-based needs and capacity assessments, evidence-based local planning, as well as support to area-based coordination mechanisms institutional cooperation and tailor-made capacity strengthening for local institutional actors.
The project Response to Resilience is being performed by a consortium of IRC, ACTED, and IMPACT. Based on the information delivered by IMPACT, ACTED and IRC will design their project activities. Those activities involve Community forums on the neighborhood level & city level, capacity development for decision makers & first responders, and resilience plans for the three targeted neighborhoods.
In the framework of the project, IMPACT, through its initiative AGORA, will realize an area-based assessment in 3 target neighborhoods in Maiduguri. Household quantitative surveys with residents (hosts communities and IDPs), focus group discussions (FGDs) and key informant interviews (KIIs) with service providers will be conducted during the assessment.
In light of the displacement in the north-eastern part of Nigeria, ACTED has set up an office in Maiduguri to respond to the humanitarian needs. AGORA a joint initiative of ACTED and IMPACT Initiatives is therefore looking for an Outreach Assistant AGORA to support its mission in Maiduguri.

Functions

Under the functional supervision of the ACTED Country Focal Point in Nigeria, and in close collaboration with the senior assessment officer, the AGORA Assessment Officer is responsible the supervision of AGORA / IMPACT assessments, including their preparation, implementation, the creation of information products and follow-up. Hence, she/he is expected to engage in the entire research cycle, including research design, data collection, analysis, dissemination, and monitoring & evaluation.

The AGORA Outreach Assistant will be responsible for:

The outreach assistant is the link between the service providers / community in the target areas and the project team.
She/he organises meetings, engages and keeps track of all-important stakeholders / service provider in the target areas of the project.The building of good working relationship with those stakeholders is crucial for the success of his / her assignment.
Support facilitation of 3 Neighbourhood-Level Area-Based Disaster Coordination Forums
Facilitate bi-monthly neighbourhood Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordination meetings, including through maintaining and sharing the minutes of meetings with all participants, and keeping accurate records of participants and discussions.
Establish and maintain neighbourhood-level 5Ws for service provision in the three target neighbourhoods
Involvement in Programme Reporting
Support the Urban DRR Project Manager as required, to meet internal and donor reporting requirements on the project

About you
All employees should master ACTED’s core Principles: Independence, Neutrality, Non-discrimination, free and direct access to victims, Ethics, Professionalism, anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability Moreover, we also expect the following:

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (Social Science, Development Studies, Research, Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation) required
Established quantitative and qualitative analytical skills;
At least 2 years of relevant working experience in data analysis, report writing, conducting research or monitoring and evaluation.
Excellent communication and drafting skills for reporting and external coordination;
Strong skills with the Microsoft Office Suite
Strong technical writing skills
Excellent experience using ODK for quantitative data collection, or the ability to rapidly master the process
Some experience creating ODK questionnaires, or ability to learn rapidly
Fluency in English required;
Ability to work independently
Knowledge in Excel as well as SPSS, R or related statistical programming