Action Against Hunger | ACF Nigeria LTD/GTE, a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.
Action Against Hunger Nigeria (ACF Nigeria) Ltd/Gte is currently recruiting Field Monitors to support the Monitoring & Evaluation and/or Programs teams in ensuring collection of qualitative and quantitative data. They will ensure accuracy of the data collected by his/her team. He/she will supervise activities such as registration, verification of beneficiaries, household surveys under the direct supervision of ACF staff members, using paper or mobile data collection tools.
Position Details
Reporting to: MEAL Officer
Proposed start date: September 2026
Work location: Damasak, Borno State
Key Responsibilities:
Supervision of data collection team
- Support in routine monitoring of project activities across supported sites as assigned by ACF
- Carry out routine supervision and spot checks on the enumerators daily activities
- Ensure quality of the data being collected by the enumerators
- Locate and validate each respondent before the questionnaire is administered
- Provide technical support with data collection tools to enumerators in the field if required
- Coordinate movements of the enumerators team in the field to reach the determined threshold of respondent according to schedule
- Ensure proper methodology is implemented for data collection, as per validated ToR
- Ensure proper handling of the devices by the enumerators
Conduct accurate quantitative and qualitative data collection
- Conduct mobile or paper data collection depending on the activity implemented
- Transcribe and take notes from phone interviews when required
- Ask questions in a clear and kind manner, and ask all the questions exactly as worded
- Provide live translation of data collection tools
- Interpret interview results to third party when necessary
- Interpret the interview findings in English
- Transcribe the answer in an ordinate and clear way by recording responses accurately
- Probe to clarify unclear respondents answers when necessary
- Adhere to survey methodologies trained on by ACF teams
Accountability Mainstreaming
- Support in implementation of Accountability frameworks across ACF supported locations
- Monitor field activities and ensure Accountability to Affected population by ensuring beneficiary entitlements are reaching the right beneficiaries as per project design
- Report any cases or complaints formulated by beneficiaries to the accountability unit
- Provide feedback and complaint form for stakeholders if required
- Give feedback to supervisors after each day of data collection
Additional responsibilities
- This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and the enumerator will also perform other related tasks as required and is responsible for reporting and communication of progress and achievement of the specific assigned task.
- The enumerator should be flexible and adaptable with regards to the implementation of the daily work/activities.
- The enumerator is expected to conduct all duties in a professional manner following ACF Nigeria mission staff regulations, Charter of Principles and Core Values.
Position Requirements:
- Minimum of Diploma in any science or social sciences or any other relevant field
- Proven experience in supervising field data collection and related activitie
- Fluency in English and local languages especially Hausa, Kanuri, Shuwa, Fulani (both written and spoken skills)
- Previous working experience in multiple languages : interpretation and translation skills
- Possess good interpersonal skills – able to work with diverse stakeholders and partners effectively
- Have basic computer literacy
- Have good capacity to work and manage a team.
- Be strategic in thinking and planning
- Have demonstrated experience and knowledge of survey procedures and data quality techniques.
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills
- Have good understanding and knowledge of the local situation and community dynamics including cultural, gender and protection issues, including ability to effectively convey information in local languages.
- Previous experience of working with NGOs
- Proven interest & commitment to humanitarian and development principles and demonstrable understanding of conflict/post conflict development contexts.
- Female indigenes of the state where the activity will be implemented
