Organizational background:
Action Against Hunger leads the global movement to end hunger. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 24 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 50 countries, our 8,300 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. We strive to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good.
Action Against Hunger USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network. As an independent NGO, Action Against Hunger USA currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Haiti. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $100 million in programs, and approximately 1,800 permanent staff based in New York City, Washington D.C, Nairobi, and country offices. Additional growth is anticipated.
I. Summary of Position
The Food Security and Livelihoods Officer position is based in Eyl and directly reports to the FSL Program Manager and will play a key role in implementing FSL projects in Eyl District. He/she will facilitate community mobilization activities to support targeting and registration of beneficiaries, work with business grants beneficiaries providing coaching and mentoring as needed, lead the implementation and follow up with VSLA groups and work in the project’s agriculture support.
Purpose, Engagement & Delivery:
The FSL project officer will;
- Take lead in all the field implementation of project activities making follow-up of the FSL activities to ensure that FSL program objectives and outputs are achieved.
- Ensure that the FSL activities in the assigned area of operation are implemented in accordance with ACF standard rules, regulations and operational procedures, agreed strategies, implementation plans and requirements.
- Ensure meaningful engagement and follow up with the supported communities.
- Document impact, success stories and case studies.
II. Specific Duties
- Actively participate in communicating the ACF project activities to the relevant stakeholders and the target communities.
- Takes lead in identification, and registration of HHs and groups that will benefit from the project activities.
- Ensure equal participation by all segments of the community, taking into consideration issues regarding gender, age, and people with disabilities.
- Working the FSL PM and MEAL Manager lead in and conduct various field assessments and surveys including needs assessment, market, and labor market assessments, and baseline surveys.
- Implement VSLA support. Identify groups, train them and actively follow up with them as required in the VSLA implementation guidance.
- Lead the business grant programming according to the ACF and SomReP process and SOPs.
- Monitoring and supporting project implementation at the field level.
- Conduct business trainings, business coaching and mentoring support to all business grants beneficiaries.
- Provide regular advice and technical support to business grants beneficiaries.
- Regularly supervise and monitor project activities (business grant, VSLAs and agriculture support) and provide timely inputs, feedback, updates and weekly reports to the FSL HoD and FSL program manager.
- Maintain a clear database of all possible participants in the program and provide regular updates (at least monthly) to the MEAL manager.
- Compile monthly reports on the performance of the business grant and VSLA beneficiaries to the FSL HoD and FSL PM
- Actively contribute to the FSL programming in Eyl District.
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the line manager.
III. Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
- The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
- Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic official matters. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and outside weather conditions and long hours traveling by road.
Requirements
Required Qualifications and Professional Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in food security and livelihoods related fields; i.e. Agricultural engineering, Agronomy, Crop Science, development studies.
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in direct implementation of agriculture extension and working with subsistence farmers, knowledge of working environment. Development and oversight of small-scale rural agriculture projects.
- Minimum of 3+ years working with business and market-based programming i.e business grants, business coaching and mentoring and VSLAs.
Required Skills & Competencies
- Extensive experience in community participation and consultative-implementation methods.
- Flexibility to adjust to new implementation practices and new strategic guidance.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and being a self-initiator.
- Good facilitation, analytical, planning and report writing skills
- Experience in community and farmer group mobilization
- Good supervisory and organizational skills, good interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of agricultural issues and techniques
- Good knowledge of implementing projects
- Self-motivated and reliable
- Experience and knowledge of working with NGOs in agriculture and business development projects programs in Somalia
- Knowledge of written and spoken English, Understanding of the local language is a must
- Proficient in MS Excel, MS Word and Outlook
- Willing to extensively travel throughout the project area.
Benefits
Action Against Hunger-USA provides all staff with an attractive salary & benefits package. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees & qualified applicants for employment without regard to color, religion, gender, age, handicap, disability, marital status. Action Against Hunger-USA complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on link. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Closing date: 26 September, 2024
Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
