Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. The association leads in average 190 projects by year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 5 million people in 20 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and France.
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Humanitarian situation and needs
With the biggest population in Africa, (between 178.000.000 and 200.000.000 habitants), Nigeria is ranked as the first economy in Africa thanks to oil and petroleum products as well as mineral resources (gold, iron, diamonds, copper etc…). Despite a strong economy, Nigeria suffers from huge socio-economic inequalities, and from high rates of corruption, at every level.
In 2015, presidential elections were held and led to the election of Muhammad Buhari (former military) to replace Goodluck Jonathan. During the first months of his election, he has shown particular efforts to get progressively rid of corruption, and has officially announced that he would stop Boko Haram from harming people.
Boko Haram (meaning Western education is forbidden/ is a sin), renamed Islamic State in Western Africa after it pledged allegiance to the group Islamic State in april 2015, is a Sunni terrorist and jihadist group seeking to create a Kalifate in western Africa ruled by the sharia law. Created in 2002 by Mohamed Yusuf in Maiduguri (State of Borno), the group has been carrying out armed attacks on civilian populations since 2011. Abubakar Shekau has taken over the leadership of the group after Yusuf died in detention in 2009 and has radicalizeds BH’s actions in the Lake Chad Basin.
From 2013, Boko Haram exported its action abroad, in Cameroon, Chad and Niger and was linked to a number of attacks kidnapping, particularly in Northern Cameroon. The intensification of conflict in north east states of, Borno, Adamawa and Yobe has inevitably resulted in the displacement of people across the troubled states. As of today, OCHA estimated that 7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, of whom 1.8 million are displaced in the sole city of Maiduguri. The main need is related to Food Security, and access to basic services (Water, Health, Sanitation ).
If A regional force made up of troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon launched a military offensive against Boko Haram in early 2015 and resulted in significant territorial losses for the insurgent group.
In August 2016, Al-Barnawi was appointed as the new leader by the high commandment of ISIS for the western African province of the Islamic State, which caused a scission inside the group between ISWA (Islamic State in Western Africa) led by Al-Barnawi and Boko Haram “historical channel” led by Abubakar Shekau. This scission might cause changes in the security context in the coming months. Armed clashes are still ongoing in Borno state drastically reducing access to the vulnerable populations outside Maiduguri, in Local Government Areas of Borno State.

Our action in the field
PUI is present in Nigeria since April 2016, and wishes to extend its coverage of the needs of vulnerable population in Borno State, and particularly in Maiduguri city.
In a comprehensive and integrated approach, Première Urgence Internationale wishes to develop its positioning in Health, Shelter and WASH to complete its current intervention in Food security.
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As part of our activities in Nigeria, we are looking for an Administrative and Financial Coordinator.

The Administrative and Financial Coordinator is accountable for the financial, accounting and budgetary management of the mission.
• Financial, budgetary and accounting management: He/She is responsible for all aspects relating to finance, including budgetary and accounting elements, as well as the mission cash flow.
• Relation with donors: He/She will be in charge of budgeting the proposals, doing the donor financial reports and organizing the audits of the projects on the field.
• Relations with auditors : He/She supervises the audits on the field.
• Representation: He/She represents the association in its relations with partners, authorities and different local players for the financial, administrative, legal and human resources areas of the mission.
• Coordination: He/She centralizes and diffuses information within the mission and to headquarters for all financial, administrative, legal and human resources aspects of the mission, and consolidates the internal and external reporting for these domains.
• HR supervision: In the absence of HR coordinator (position not funded any more by main donors) and in support to the national HR team, he/she is in charge of supervising the HR department functioning. He/She is in charge of Expat HR management for all administrative subjects.

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Training and experiences
• Financial management / Accounting
• Humanitarian
• International
• Technical

Knowledge and skills
Knowledge of institutional donation procedures
Software
• Office Pack (Including Excel)
• SAGA
Personal characteristics expected
• Great capacity to delegate
• Resistance to pressure
• Good Stress Management
• Analytical
• Organization and method
• Reliability
• Sense of responsibility
• Great listening skills, empathy
• Adaptability, priority management, practicality
• Diplomacy and ability to negotiate
• Good communication
• Honesty and thoroughness
• Ability to remain calm and level-headed

Languages
French and English required.
Proposed terms
• Employed with a fixed-term contract- 3 months
• Minimum duration of commitment: 3 months
• Starting date: October 2016
• Monthly gross income: from 2 200 up to 2 530 Euros depending on the experience in International Solidarity + 50 Euros per semester seniority with PUI
• Cost covered: Round-trip transportation to and from home / mission, visas, vaccines…
• Insurance including medical coverage and complementary healthcare, 24/24 assistance and repatriation
• Housing in collective accommodation
• Daily living expenses(« Per diem »)
• Break policy: 5 working days at 3 and 9 months + break allowance
• Paid leaves policy : 5 weeks of paid leaves per year + return ticket every 6 months

To know more about our job, look at the complete job description on our website !

HOW TO APPLY:
Please send you application (Resume and Cover Letter) to Romain Gautier, Human Resources Officer for Expatriates, at recrutement@premiere-urgence.org with the following subject: « caf-nga ».