Project Officer – CENSCOPE

ABOUT CENSCOPE

CENSCOPE is a national non-profit organisation headquartered in Maiduguri and working across humanitarian and development sectors. With Malala Fund support, it is implementing a three-year Gender-Responsive Education Budgeting project in Borno State to advance financing for the re-entry and retention of married, pregnant and parenting girls in education.

POSITION DETAILS

• Employment type: Full-time, onsite
• Location: Borno State
• Application deadline: 13 September 2026
• Rolling review applies and the vacancy may close early.

ROLE PURPOSE

Serve as a core project-delivery role, leading day-to-day activity implementation, field coordination, training facilitation and compliance follow-up across the seven target LGAs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implement and coordinate project activities across assigned LGAs in line with the approved workplan.
• Facilitate trainings for government officials and budget monitors and support stakeholder engagements.
• Support baseline and monitoring data collection using survivor-centred and disability-inclusive methods.
• Coordinate field logistics and pre-mission security briefings with the Project Manager.
• Track activity-level compliance and refer incident reports through safeguarding channels.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Development, Education, Social Sciences or a related field.
• Two to three years of project-implementation experience in humanitarian or development settings in Northeast Nigeria.
• Field experience in hard-to-reach or high-security LGAs and willingness to travel regularly.
• Proficiency in English; Hausa and/or Kanuri is strongly preferred.

DESIRABLE

• Familiarity with digital data-collection tools such as KoboToolbox or ODK.
• Experience in advocacy, budget monitoring or education programming.

SAFEGUARDING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

The successful candidate must sign CENSCOPE’s Code of Conduct and complete mandatory PSEA and child-protection training. Roles involving direct contact with children are subject to enhanced checks. Qualified women, young women and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply through the official CENSCOPE form using the Apply button and upload the requested CV and cover letter as a single document.