Position: Livelihood Mobilizer
Department: Project Implementation
Direct Hierarchy: Project Manager
Location: Lorengkippi-Turkana County
Starting date: January 2026
Background on ACTED
Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavours to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. We go the last mile: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard-to-reach areas. With a team of 7000 staff, ACTED is active in 42 countries and implements more than 550 projects a year reaching over 20 million beneficiaries. More on www.acted.org
In Kenya, Acted has been present since 2007 to meet the humanitarian and development needs of communities affected by natural calamities, population displacement and inadequate access to basic services. Acted has a capital office in Nairobi and operational bases in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) counties in RiftValley and Northern Kenya. The teams work with local governments and partners to support the most vulnerable households through Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), food assistance and disaster preparedness programmes.
ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced, and committed team player to fill the Livelihood Mobilizers positions in Lorengkippi, Turkana County.
Job Purpose
The Livelihood Mobilizer is the link between Acted and the beneficiary community. S/he ensures the implementation of Acted’s Women and Youth empowerment and livelihood activities are done with involvement of the beneficiaries and upholds accountability to the stakeholders, supports in needs assessment, mobilization, targeting, validation, registration, verification, baseline survey, training of groups, post distribution monitoring, endline survey, follow-up on beneficiaries in liaison with the Project Manager. S/he ensures that the project activities are executed in collaboration with the local community, the local authorities and other relevant agencies.
FUNCTIONS
1.Assessment and mobilization
- Conduct field-based needs assessments and consolidate the information for planning and implementing women and youth empowerment activities and livelihood activities and any other project(s) related responsibilities as may be assigned by the Project Manager within the project area.
- Support MEAL in community organization during verification, baseline, PDM and endline surveys.
- Oversee targeting, validation and registration of project beneficiaries.
- Support PD in translation of field assessment findings into feasible and relevant project proposals.
- Mobilize community members to actively participate in women and youth empowerment activities and livelihood interventions.
- Support in the development of data collection tools for women and youth empowerment activities and livelihood interventions.
- Carry out any other project(s) related assignments as may be directed by the Project Manager.
2. Monitoring
- Support in follow up and monitoring of all women and youth empowerment activities and livelihood activities in area of jurisdiction.
- Attend other project(s) activities as may be directed by the project Manager.
3. Supervision and Training
- Develop and implement beneficiary engagement plans e.g targeting, mobilization, validation, registration, baseline and verification.
- Support in the development and implementation of community context specific training guides for enumerators supporting beneficiary engagement activities.
- Develop Clear plan for community sensitization, mobilization, monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Carry out training of target Self Help & Youth Groups
4.Reporting
- Provide accountability documents to Project Manager for review and onward sharing with Logistics, Finance, HR and Coordination.
- Provide timely reports on field trips, trainings, monitoring visits and assessments to the Project Manager.
- Compile weekly updates, monthly reports and other Acted substantial reports as may be required.
Qualifications/Skills Required:
- Minimum Diploma in Sociology/Social Science, Community Development, Rural Livelihoods or related field.
- At least 2 years of work experience in a similar field; previous experience with humanitarian organizations is an asset and experience in community mobilization, livelihoods projects, or economic empowerment initiatives
- Strong team player of high integrity, pleasant personality, ability to work under least supervision and meet strict deadlines.
- Ability to work independently.
- Basic understanding of market systems, extension services, Value chains and community capacity building
- Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills for working with diverse community groups and partner engagement
- Good communication skills, including basic report writing. Proficient in local languages and basic computer skills.
- Knowledge on Gender and Social Inclusion with additional training or skills in gender mainstreaming / integration is an added advantage. Demonstrated commitment to respect, equity, diversity and inclusion including gender equality
- Positive attitude and a willingness to learn.
- Alignment in organizational value and code of conduct
- Familiarity with the humanitarian coordination system is an advantage.
- Willingness and ability work in a hardship environment, for extended periods of the time required.
- Knowledge in communicating in local (Turkana) language
- Knowledge and understanding of the Project area (Lorengkippi) will be a plus
- Computer literacy, particularly in MS Office 365; Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
- Analysis and problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment
- Ability to work closely with communities, partners, local/government authorities
- Experience in implementing projects in areas that are prone to resource-based conflicts is an added advantage
How to apply
Qualified national persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter as a single document i.e. with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work related referees and contacts to [email protected] and received on or before 5.00PM on 11th December 2025 with the subject line “Livelihood Mobilizer_LORENGKIPPI”
Please do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.
Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments.
ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. ACTED has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconducts. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will be expected to sign ACTED’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
