FSL Officer – Agro – Borno State 135 views0 applications

Action Against Hunger works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy.

FSL Officer – Agro

Location: Monguno, Borno
Job type: Full Time
Direct Line Manager: FSL Sector Manager
Starting Date: As Soon As Possible

Objective 1

• Provide support for the successful implementation of agricultural component of the program.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Facilitate community mobilization towards farmers’ field school and small holders gardening.
• Work with traditional committees to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable beneficiaries for cash/asset for work.
• Ensure IDPs and host communities provide information to ensure accountability, fairness and transparency during cash or voucher disbursement activities.
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of planned activities for cash/asset for work with the support from the Sector Manager.
• Support in the implementation of capacity building training including Field Training and Workshops for the target beneficiaries on vegetable production, seed conservation, farm management and storage.
• Directly implement in the field the activities defined in the program in close collaboration with the FSL Agro Assistant and community stakeholders.
• Contribute to farmers access to seeds, post-harvest processing and market linkage for small holder farmers in the LGA.
• Contribute to organizational and sector-wide learning through documentation of lessons learned, best practices, evaluations etc. on the small holder gardening and cash/asset for work component of the program.
• Contribute to preparing FSL internal and external agricultural activities reports including case studies and success stories etc.

Objective 2

• Collate information and data on agricultural activities through surveys, assessments, regular post distribution monitoring and field supervision visits of beneficiary households.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Supervise and compile information to ensure that the surveillance of the farming situation in the area of implementation of the program is achieving the expected result, when required.
• Supervise and collect the required information in the field to facilitate the capacity building and training program, with the support of the FSL Agro Assistants.
• Support the M&E team in analysis of beneficiary data collection through the various tools that the department uses.
• Coordinate closely with the FSL Sector Manager to ensure that cross-LGA programs are being implemented in synergy.
• Coordinate closely with the FSL (CBT-SP and economics strengthening), Nutrition, WASH teams in different LGAs on cross-learning with the aim of revising and improving approaches.
• Participate in and inform longer-term discussions with the program team (FSL, WASH and nutrition) regarding program implementation strategy.
• Support M&E team in activities monitoring (beneficiary targeting, identification, registration and training; market and livelihood assessments; baseline and endline surveys, post distribution monitoring, price monitoring, field monitoring visits, focused group discussions (FGD), etc)
• Contribute to the development of tools to monitor and improve the quality of FSL agricultural recovery programming.
• Support the preparation of documentation required for the implementation of field activities
• Ensure harmonization of program operating plans and protocols across the program as well as the mission, with the help of technical support from FSL Sector Manager, review tools and approaches, and ensure that technical standards, guidelines and methodologies are communicated and understood.

Objective 3

• Mobilization and awareness raising about the organization, agricultural recovery objectives and activities to local authorities and the population, and act as a link between the organization and the beneficiaries.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of project community mobilisation strategies for targeting and registration of beneficiaries for the agricultural production activities.
• Implement sensitisation activities for targeted communities about agricultural activities and strengthening nutrition sensitive agriculture with support from relevant State, LGA and community stakeholders at LGA level.
• Support in the verification of the beneficiaries to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable population is verified based on project proposal and organizations policies before agricultural intervention is made.
• Support the FSL Sector Manager in ensuring that targeting of beneficiaries to receive cash based agricultural interventions are carried out in a transparent way which guarantees protection and gender sensitivity in the field way and with active participation of women, men and minority members of communities.
• Facilitate good working relationship between state, LGA, community level stakeholders and target beneficiaries.

Objective 4

• Participate in regular internal and external coordination meeting for the program at the local government level

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with all other AAH departments and sectors to ensure the project activities are integrated in line with Logistics, Finance, HR and security procedures and SoPs.
• Collaboration with other partners including relevant state government ministries, Borno State Agricultural Development Program, Chad Basin Development Authority, INGOs, NGOs, CBOs and the UN working in assigned LGA.
• Work in collaboration with the communities and local leaders at all stages of project implementation.
• Ensure that the project (implementation of agricultural activities) is well represented in regular LGA level meetings and forums.
• Ensure proper records are kept of all expenditure and usage of materials; and cash advances received from finance are  properly retired after each activity.
• Ensure that documentation is properly done for all cash distributed (donation certificates, delivery notes, beneficiary lists and  supply request order).
• Preparation of weekly movement plan for assigned LGA according to the team planning and sharing with Sector Manager.

Objective 5

• General Logistics Support

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with FSL Agro Assistants to compile and submit monthly activity reports.
• To provide reports according to the request of the FSL Sector Manager (Bi – weekly updates, success stories, case studies etc.)
• Participate in writing situation reports with information on food security, security information at the community as needed and/or requested
• Including, but not limited to: Compiles weekly and monthly reports and ensuring timely submission of such written reports to the FSL Sector Manager for consolidation and sharing with the Multi-sectoral program manager.

Objective 6

• Performance Management

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Communicate Action Against Hunger performance standards and expectations to team members which includes ; 10 minutes monthly conversation, 3 months/end of probation performance appraisal and annual/ end of contract appraisal.
• Establish performance objectives, provide feedback, identify strengths and areas for professional improvement.
• Contribute to the professional development and improvement of team members by providing support.

Objective 7

• Additional Responsibilities

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and the employee 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 employee should be flexible and adaptable with regards to the implementation of the daily work/activities.
• The employee is expected to conduct all duties in a professional manner following Action Against Hunger Nigeria mission staff regulations and charter including promotion of gender equality.

Internal & External Relationship
Internal:

• FSL Sector Manager: hierarchical relationship
• Technical Coordinators: Technical oversight, technical support, coaching
• Multisectorial Project Manager: exchange of information, reporting, collaboration, coordination
• Other Project Officers/Sector Manager: Nut/FSL/M&E: exchange of information on programs, coordination and monitoring and evaluation (integrated approach)
• Support departments: collaboration and exchange of information.

External:

• Local authorities: communication, exchange of information in collaboration with the Sector Manager-FSL and Multisectoral PM.
• Local Technical Coordination: lobbying, animation and leadership
• Other NGOs : partnerships and technical exchanges or sharing of experience
• Population and beneficiaries: definition of needs, targeting, communication and exchange of information.
• Participate actively in Food Security Working Group, Cash Transfer Working Group , OCHA meetings, INGO forum.
• Local and state government: Engage with stakeholders in coordination with FieldCo, Multisectorial PM and Sector Manager-FSL.

Qualifications

• Minimum of HND or Bachelors Degree in Agronomy, Agriculture or any other related fields
• Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience in humanitarian contexts with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts.

Skills & Experience
Essential:

• Previous experience managing FSL interventions (i.e. cash based transfer, IGA, agriculture/livelihoods)
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Excellent Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word).
• Commitment to upholding Action Against Hunger’s values, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to be adaptable and flexible.
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in English, Hausa and other local languages (Fulani and Kanuri)
• Commitment to Action Against Hunger mission, values and policy

Preferred:

• Previous experience with Action Against Hunger.
• Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, SIDA) funded activities.