CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR CANDIDATES
BACKGROUND OF GOOD NEIGHBORS AND THE PROJECT

About Good Neighbors:
Good Neighbors Cameroon (GNCMR) is an international non-governmental organization with its head office in Yaoundé and field Offices in Maroua and Mbalmayo. GNCMR's work is focused on community development, implementation implementing projects in the sectors of food security and livelihood, education, child protection, water, hygiene and sanitation, health, environment, gender and advocacy. Good Neighbors Cameroon works with different international partners such as the United Nations and INGOs to seek sustainable solutions to development and humanitarian challenges.
Food security is one of the key areas of intervention of Good Neighbors. Our food security work focuses on the following two areas:
Enhancing food security and resilience of communities
A crucial step we take to encourage resilience and food security among the people is to help communities organize for collective action and to promote understanding of food security issues. Furthermore, we place an emphasis on supporting small-scale farmers to adopt sustainable and productive farming methods which will strengthen their capacity to withstand climate change and natural disasters.
Assisting people who are susceptible to malnutrition
Children, women, and the destitute are most vulnerable to malnutrition. Therefore, we take special care to encourage communities to focus their collective attention on the welfare of those most susceptible. Our efforts will go to enabling people take balanced nutritional intake with locally available ingredients.
In line with ensuring food security around the world, Good Neighbors Works in partnership with the World Food Program (WFP) in several countries in Africa to fight against food insecurity. In Cameroon, Good Neighbors is partnering with the WFP in the framework of the Emergency Food Crisis Response Project (PULCCA) to respond to the immediate needs of food insecurity in the areas targeted by the project.

About the Emergency Food Crisis Response Project (PULCCA)
The “Emergency Food Crisis Response Project (PULCCA)” seeks to support Cameroon’s efforts to strengthen food and nutrition security and increase resilience to climate shocks. The project comprises of three major components that cut across the key factors related to Cameroons food security problem. These components are;
Component 1: Support for early response food and nutrition stabilization towards early recovery and resilience building.
Component 2: Strengthen productive capacities of smallholders through crop and livestock support for climate and nutritional resilience
Component 3: Support the strengthening governmental food security crises monitoring capacity, information systems, and agrometeorological services
The World Food Programme Cameroon is the principal partner of the government of Cameroon in the implementation of the PULCCA which falls within the Country Strategic Plan of WFP.
Good Neighbors Cameroon has entered into partnership with the World Food Program of Cameroon, to support the implementation of the Assistance Programme of the WFP.

Therefore, Good Neighbors Cameroon would like to hire staff who will work in the above intervention in the positions of:

1.    Deputy Project Manager who will assist the Project Manager in the oversight of WFP-GNCMR partnership project implementation in the Far North Region of Cameroon, including capacity building, activity planning and implementation, budget management, monitoring, reporting, and coordination (01 Opening)
2.    Field Monitoring Officers at Divisional Level in five Divisions of the Far North Region (Mayo Sava, Mayo Tsanaga, Logone & Chari, Mayo Danay and Diamaré (05 Openings)
3.    Field Monitoring Assistants for 8 Subdivisions in Far North Region (08 Positions)

DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER
Job summary:
The Deputy Project Manager reports to the Project Manager and works in close collaboration with the Field Monitoring Officers in the different divisions of the Far North Region, Finance Manager, and MAEL Officer. Alongside the PM, S/he directly supervises the field Monitoring Officers, Field Monitoring assistants and Community Mobilizers based in various field sites.
S/he will support implementation of field activities such as provide technical and operational support to the team in the field to ensure good performance on work, as regards capacity building activities and suggest ways to develop/adjust project strategies to achieve specific and general objectives. He/she provide daily technical support and coaching to the project team and partners or stakeholders. This position requires an individual who has deep knowledge and robust skills on Food Security, Agriculture, Livelihood, and Community Engagement in both humanitarian and development settings.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Project management:

•    Ensure Implementation all the planned field-based activities in respective areas of project implementation in planned time and coherent manner.
•    Support the identification of key stakeholders involved in the value chain and conduct discussions with them to identify area of supports to develop linkages and collaborative way of working.
•    Provide technical support planning and implementation of capacity building trainings and workshop in the interventions i.e. capacity buildings related to agricultural livelihoods, business and skills development, financial inclusion and environmental protection.
•    Actively promote value chain development for beneficiary groups through provision of productive assets, technical trainings, value addition and market linkages.
•    Ensure active participation of the various categories of beneficiaries in project interventions.
•    Coordinate relevant stakeholders and service providers to deliver trainings to project beneficiaries such as advanced agricultural techniques and methods, value addition, financial literacy trainings, VSLA, inputs, quality control and management, etc.
•    Conduct market studies and advise on best implementation strategies that would ensure that targeted farmers and farmer groups have profitable agribusiness ventures.
•    Develop a sustainable marketing structure, including an umbrella commodity marketing associations to enhance market access.
Project Implementation and Capacity Development:
•    Ensure that work procedures and relevant standard operating procedures (SOPs) are understood and being carried out throughout the implementation by staff and partners.
•    Provide technical support and coaching to field staff, partners, and service contractors to ensure field implementation is in line with agreed work plans, SOPs, and implementation guidelines
•    Work closely with safety and security focal points to ensure field implementation is in line with safety and security protocols. This includes preparing timely movement requests for field trips, reporting safety and security incidents from the field, and regular communication with safety and security focal points on-field movements
•    Document and compile reports on project activities including Monthly & Quarterly donor reports, internal reports (weekly activity reports (meetings, and any other activity).
•    Support the establishment of a database for all project activities to regularly monitor and evaluate their activities.
•    Take leadership in reporting on project progress, success stories and lessons learned during project implementation.


3. Partnership:
•    Ensure that stakeholders are sensitized on program accountability and have information on beneficiary feedback mechanism.
•    Work closely with relevant Government state departments (MINADER, MINEPIA, MINPROFF, MINAS), UN-System, INGO and NGO to share relevant information.
•    Participate in internal and external meetings.
•    Attend stakeholder meetings and field visits as required.
•    Deliver diligently in any other duties as assigned from time to time.

PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
•    Master 2 in Agricultural sciences, business economics or any other relevant field with at least 4 years’ continuous experience implementing food security and livelihoods related activities.
•    Previous work with a busy multi-sectoral setting in a refugee setting is an asset.
•    Knowledge and practical experience in value chain development.
•    Knowledge and practical experience in public private partnerships.
•    Previous work experience with farmer organizations.
•    Participatory training methodologies.
•    Strong presentation skills with mastery of Power point, Excel, MS word.
•    Bilingual with Strong communication skills (written and oral) in French and English.
•    Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently.
•    Team player, extremely flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations.
•    Excellent reporting skills with good oral and written communication skills.
•    Knowledge of the local language in the Far North Region is an added advantage.
•    Culturally sensitive.
Personal features:
•    Perfect personal integrity.
•    Pay attention to detail.
•    Dynamic and able of performing multiple tasks at the same time
•    Team spirit and problem-solving skills.
OTHERS:
•    Security:
•    Ensure compliance with security protocols and policies;
•    Consider security implications of all project activities, reviewing all new initiatives with others staffs and community leaders and community volunteers.
•    Compliance & Ethics:
•    Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout Good Neighbors. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of Good Neighbors and WFP compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.
•    Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.
•    Communicates these standards to staff, if applicable, and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.
•    Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:


FIELD MONITORING OFFICER
Job Summary:
The Field Monitoring Officer will support to set up Monitoring and training, targeted beneficiaries for agriculture and livelihood/ food security supporting activities, ensuring that International technical recommendations and procedures are followed. S/he carries out all activities with high standard and, if necessary, proposes adjustment or improvements to guarantee a high standard and a better implementations/he follows up with the training organization as well as with the targeted farmers to ensure the efficiency of the activities.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
List of main tasks:
•    Support the MEAL officer and PM to Collect accurate data at field level and participate in data analysis
•    Contribute in conducting capacity evaluation, assessment, baseline and impact surveys
•    Help in designing and setting up criteria for selecting targeted communities and beneficiaries
•    Implement all field activities at Divisional Level in accordance with Good Neighbors technical requirements and financial donor criteria and in respect of activity planning.
•    Ensure continues collection of information and assist in the quality analysis of the activities carried out
Implementation and operational monitoring
•    Participate in all capacity building training sessions for beneficiaries by preparing trainings and PowerPoint presentations to actively take part in these activities.
•    Participate in beneficiary profiling, beneficiary registration, and base line-end line assessments in activities through technical review and guidance on data collection tools.
•    Participate in all project review assessments, surveys and studies and ensure these are conducted as per protocol.
•    Carries out the activities for which he is responsible, in accordance with the deadlines and technical specificities that have been set

•    Use management, monitoring and evaluation tools in the activities-assessment formats, follow up sheets, harvest report etc.
•    Follow up on Agriculture and food security and Livelihood activities upon guidance by PM
•    Uses developed methods and tools for the implementation of the activities
•    Ensure regular monitoring and follow-up of the activities with the beneficiaries by regular field visits using monitoring tools
•    Pre-empt any difficulties linked to carrying out the activities and facilitate problem solving
•    Ensure good analysis of the local environment and understand needs so that activities are adapted accordingly
•    Ensure compliance with national and international norms and quality standards related to his/her activities
•    Manage the activities and supervise the work of community mobilisers
•    Contribute and participate in project monitoring and evaluation processes by documenting best practices, lessons learned, beneficiary interviews, case studies and capturing field photos/videos
Reporting / communication
•    Ensure the documentation of all activities with pictures, videos and case stories at the Field level and Participate in writing up reports on the progress of activities for which s/he is responsible
•    Pass on to the PM any information on the security context, or any event that may have potential consequences on Good Neighbors activities and team security
•    Collect information for case study, success stories & lesson learning reports
•    Ensure collection and safe archiving of all project related documents such as reports, receipts and contracts.
•    Communicate with other team members on activity results
•    Present to the population and local authorities the nature of the field operations and create awareness about the project activities
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list of the key task
PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
•    University Degree in agricultural engineering, Agricultural sciences, any other relevant field with at least 2 years’ continuous experience in agriculture, implementing food security and livelihoods related activities.
•    Previous work with a busy multi-sectoral setting in a refugee setting is an asset.
•    Knowledge and practical experience in value chain development.
•    Good food security / agronomist/agricultural technical skills and knowledge
•    Previous work experience with farmer organizations.
•    Experience in building the capacity building of farmer groups.
•    Experience in participatory training methodologies.
•    Strong presentation skills with mastery of Power point, Excel, MS word.
•    Strong communication skills (written and oral) in French and Local languages in the Far North.
•    Team player, extremely flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations.
•    Excellent reporting skills with good oral and written communication skills.
•    Knowledge of at least one local language in the Far North Region is an added advantage.
•    Culturally sensitive.
•    Ability to ride a motorcycle and possession of a valid riding permit.
Personal features:
•    Strong communication skills, used to speak in front of an audience and able to work dynamically with adults and farmers
•    Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
•    Good interpersonal, analytical, communications, cultural sensitivity, negotiation skills and diplomacy
•    Team spirit and problem-solving skills.
OTHERS:
•    Security:
•    Ensure compliance with security protocols and policies;
•    Consider security implications of all program activities, reviewing all new initiatives with others staffs and community leaders and community volunteers.
•    Compliance & Ethics:
•    As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of Good Neighbor Cameroon and WFP compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.
•    Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.
•    Communicates these standards to staff, if applicable, and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.
•    Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

FIELD MONITORING ASSISTANT
Task Overview
The field Monitoring Assistant will track the project activities and maintains operational focus on results. He or She will ensure daily tracking and analysis of project results to measure operational performance against targets and to make adjustments where necessary. He or She will inform operational decision-making, including project design. The monitoring assistant will generate data for evaluative purposes and periodic reporting, as well as for further evidence-building at all organizational levels.
Monitoring assistant will track the outcomes, outputs and processes of the project. Collect data that is disaggregated, where relevant, by gender, age, beneficiary category and, if appropriate, other socio-cultural characteristics. Among the variables that are measured are beneficiary satisfaction and Good Neighbor Cameroon’s accountability to affected populations.
KEY RESPONSABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
•    The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:
•    Monitor the progress of project activities and provide guidance and technical assistance, and mentorship to the project beneficiaries (farmer groups).
•    Carry out regular visits to production sites (Crop and animal farms) to ensure progress of agricultural activities and to identify and document challenges of farmer groups.
•    Assist the field monitoring officer in all capacity building trainings of beneficiaries by taking part in the organization of these trainings and ensuring its success
•    In close collaboration with government authorities of MINADER and MINEPIA and select and register farmers an ensure participation in and adherence to the project
•    Take part in project meetings with other stakeholders such as the government
•    Ensure the gender balance in the composition of beneficiary groups and the active participation of women in decision-making processes
•    Support capacity strengthening of Smallholder Farmers (SHF), Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), aggregators, and other rural actors to participate in structured markets; and promote market linkages through other platforms and other end buyers
•    Maintain information records and monitoring plan documentation, such as records of effective delivery and distribution of equipment and materials for agriculture to producer groups
•    Assist in ensuring active participation of smallholder farmers including women and youths in organized value chains and structured markets
•    Liaise with Community Mobilizers and field technicians of MINADER and MINEPIA to gather feedback and comments from beneficiaries and stakeholders to support programme reviews and improve services.
•    Receive and follow up on comments and feedback from partners such as government and beneficiaries, to support identifying project issues with a view to fostering efficient
•    Prepare and Submit a Monthly Report of monitoring activities to the field monitoring officer and present this report during Monthly Monitoring Meetings
•    Provide regular updates on ongoing activities
•    Submit Incident Reports to the supervisor as required.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: A University Degree in the functional areas of International Development, Humanitarian work, Project Management, International Relations or other related field of studies relevant for this position.
Experience: At least four (2) years of progressive work experience in humanitarian and development organizations, emergency operations, managing data collection, using monitoring tools, preferably in Livelihoods, Climate Adoptive Food System, Agriculture areas, or any related functional area.
Languages: Fluency in both written and spoken communication in the French. Knowledge of Fulfulde or any other local languages in the Far North Region is highly desirable.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
•    Experience on data collection and reports preparation, preferably relevant to specific area of livelihoods and Climate Change Adoptive Food Systems activities;
•    In-depth technical knowledge on sustainable food systems, agriculture and nutrition value chain, and projects implementation;
•    Experience in implementing or monitoring projects related to sustainable food systems, Integrated Climate Reduction Management programmes, agriculture and nutrition value chains or other related fields;
•    Demonstrate responsibility, reactiveness and initiative to respond and/or act independently to various queries under minimal supervision and general guidance. Ability to think on the spot and use judgment in dealing with unforeseen operational problems daily.


HOW TO APPLY AND DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
HOW TO APPLY
Submit your CV, cover letter, copy of highest diploma, and other relevant work certificates and documents by email only to recruiting.gncmr@gmail.com
DEADLINE: 20th March 2024
Good Neighbor Cameroon has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to Good Neighbors standards of conduct. Good Neighbors will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.
•    Equal Opportunities:
Good Neighbors is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran.

Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.