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Overall Purpose of the Role:
The Zonal Livelihood coordinator, based at Zonal agriculture office, is responsible for the Intermediate Result one (IR1) agriculture and livelihood component of the USAID funded Growth through Nutrition – an Integrated and development oriented nutrition program at Zonal, Woreda and community levels.
The Zonal livelihood coordinator coordinates, supervises and provides technical assistance for the implementation of Growth through Nutrition agriculture and livelihood activities at Zonal level. S/he shall actively participate and strengthen nutrition multi-sectoral coordination among the different and relevant sectors with that of the agriculture sector. Identify strategies and facilitate the implementation of nutrition sensitive agricultural activities among vulnerable households, establishes support and partnerships with local actors and smallholder farmers to improve livelihoods and increased nutritional values. Facilitate linkages with other agricultural, health and nutrition programs, international NGOs, private sector businesses, and government agencies. Builds local capacity through mentorship and training of zonal, woreda, kebele sector offices and the targeted households/community; mobilize target beneficiaries to establish saving and credit groups in support of program activities and ensuring sustainability; and support reporting and in monitoring and evaluation, assuring that project related data and reports are submitted in project formats on timely basis.
Contract Duration: One year with possibility of extension based on performance.
Location: Debretabor
Number of positions: 1
Job specific roles and responsibilities
- Coordinate, supervise and provide technical assistance for proper implementation of nutrition sensitive agriculture such as homestead vegetable production, productive livestock rearing, food safety and postharvest handling and saving and credit group establishment planned under Growth through Nutrition implemented by the respective government structures (agriculture, school, and health), etc–at woreda and kebele levels.
- Facilitate the implementation of activities to promote nutrition sensitive agriculture at FTCs, schools, model framers plot and among vulnerable households, including providing technical training in agronomic practices of horticultural crops, livestock husbandry, business development skills, saving, cooperative management, and financial literacy.
- In coordination with Growth through Nutrition team members and other donor funded agricultural, livestock and fishery programs plan and implement nutrition sensitive livelihood strategies.
- Facilitate linkages with other agricultural (specifically AGP II and PSNP IV), health and nutrition programs, international NGOs, private sector businesses for the supply of inputs and marketing of produce, and government agencies.
- Works with team members of Growth through Nutrition and staff of Zonal and Woreda Offices of Agriculture to target most vulnerable households as per the targeting criteria and methods to ensure exclusion and inclusion errors so that appropriate beneficiaries are reached.
- Establishes support and partnerships with local actors and smallholder farmers to improve livelihoods and increased nutritional value through demonstrations on new agricultural and nutritional technologies.
- Works closely with the field office SBCC manager to bring about behavioural changes in the agricultural system and dietary habits.
- Works closely with Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to generate practical information that can be used for on-going program decision making while also capturing results at the outcome and impact levels.
- Capacity building through training of Zonal, woreda,school teachers, Kebele sector offices staff and targeted households to strengthen livelihoods services and programming.
- Mobilize target beneficiaries in collaboration with the cooperative promotion offices to establish saving and credit groups and creat linkage to financial service providers such as micro finance institutions, rural saving and credit cooperatives (RUSACCO) in support of program activities and ensure sustainability of the results by beneficiaries.
- Conduct regular follow up /appropriate mentoring and provide on job training for government agriculture and health workers at grass root level using agreed tools
- Ensure that resources allocated reached the right beneficiaries, for the right objective in the right time
- Coordinate with save the children zonal health and nutrition coordinator, woreda level sectors for proper planning and implementation of livelihood and nutrition sensitive agriculture activities at woreda and kebele level.
- Collaborate with Growth through Nutrition and other partners who are working in livelihood and nutrition sensitive agriculture, WASH, SBCC activities and sectors in the ground in order to implement Growth through Nutrition layering and convergence approach as per the agreed plan and strategy.
- Ensure that proper planning and implementation of Growth through Nutrition crosscutting sectors; gender, learning agenda, sustainable approaches, and convergence/overlay of multi-sector nutrition interventions.
- Collaborate with gender specialist and gender focal persons/taskforce to deliver gender sensitive agriculture and livelihood activities at woreda and kebele levels.
- Support reporting and monitoring and evaluation, assuring that quality reports are submitted using standard project formats on timely basis.
Job Requirements
MINIMUM QUALFICATION, EXPEREINCE, COMPETENCIES
Education qualification
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Animal Science, Plant Science, Cooperative Development, Rural Development and other related field of studies.
Experience
- At least 6 years of experience implementing livelihoods and economic strengthening programs required, with significant experience in NGO supporting diverse economic strengthening activities such as homestead gardening and animal production.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY
- Significant training experience (e.g. Nutrition sensitive Agriculture, horticulture, cooperatives development, animal husbandry, etc) with community mobilization in support of agriculture and economic strengthening programs. Experience conducting trainings, training of trainers, and organizational capacity building.
- Knowledge and learning ability to integrate gender issues in agriculture and livelihood interventions.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, as well as the proven ability to work collaboratively with many organizations and stakeholders. Experience working with private sector, government agencies and beneficiaries on livelihoods programs.
- Ability to travel throughout the focus zone, woredas,kebele and other rural areas as needed.
- An understanding and commitment to Save the Children values
- Strong results orientation.
- Experience in multi-sectorial coordination.
- Proven project management skill with professional certificate in project management is added advantage.
- Ability to manage complex and demanding workload.
- Strong computer, communication, team work and interpersonal skills.
- Able to spoken and written in English languages.
- Knowledge of local language is mandatory.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds suppliers accountable to deliver on their responsibilities
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
- Displays consistent excellent judgement
More Information
- Job City Debretabor, Amhara