Action Against Hunger Vacancy For FSL Officer

Action Against Hunger | ACF-International 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.

Job Title: FSL Officer (Income Generation Activity)

Location: Nangere, Yobe

Job Type:  Full Time

Department:  Programmes – FSL

Level:  Experienced

Job Summary

The position is based in Nangere, Yobe State and report to the Deputy Project Manager-FSL. The Food Security and Livelihood Officer (Income Generation Activity) leads the field team in implementing Income Generation Activities for the Integrated Basic Humanitarian Response Project (INP Plus) through livelihood interventions, business management and technical trainings and capacity building to improve skills or production in new/pre-existing livelihood assets.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Facilitate community mobilization, meetings and trainings during community led IGA activities.
• Work with traditional committees to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable IDPs and host communities and provide information to ensure accountability, fairness and transparency during implementation of activities.
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of Income generate activity plan to generate report.
• Collect information and data on Income Generation Activates at LGA level through surveys, assessments, regular post distribution monitoring and field supervision visits of beneficiary households.
• Supervise and collect the required information in the field to facilitate the capacity building and training program, with the support of the Agriculture 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 DPM to ensure that cross-LGA programs are being implemented in synergy.
• Mobilization and awareness raising about the organization, program objectives and activities to local authorities and the population, and act as a link between the organization and the beneficiaries (at LGA level).
• Participate  in  regular  internal  and  external  coordination  for  the  program  at  LGA  and state levels when required.

Positions Requirements

• Degree  in  FSL  related  studies  e.g.  agro-economy,  natural  resource  management,  anthropology, disaster risk management etc.
• Minimum of two years’ work experience in humanitarian contexts, with at least  1  year in conflict/insecure contexts.
• Previous experience managing FSL interventions (i.e. cash based transfer, IGA, agriculture/livelihoods).
• Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities.
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Proficient with microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word).
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluent in English, Hausa and other local languages (Fulani and Kanuri).
• Commitment to Action Against Hunger mission, values and policy.

Application Deadline

The deadline for this position is Wednesday, March 14, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

Please note advert may close before the due date once we have received applications from qualified candidate.

Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to Apply

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Good Luck!!!