FSL Officer - Agroforestry at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Location: Damasak, Borno

Job Summary

• The position is based in Damasak, Borno State and reports to the FSL Sector Manager.
• The FSL Officer-Agroforestry is required to lead the field team towards the implementation agriculture activities in the “Enhancing Food security, WASH services and resilience for Conflict-Affected Populations in Northeast Nigeria” through livelihood interventions, business management and technical training and capacity building to improve skills or production in new/pre-existing livelihood assets.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Collect information and data on Agriculture activities at LGA level through surveys, assessments, regular post distribution monitoring and field supervision visits of beneficiary households.
• 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 meeting when required.
• Work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation team in the monitoring of project activities such as identification, registration, market and livelihood assessments, baseline and end line surveys etc)
• Prepare and submit weekly and monthly reports on activities.
• Participate in field training workshop for target beneficiaries.
• Collaborate with other departments ensuring the project activities are integrated with the organization's standard operating procedures.
• Contribute to the development of tools for monitoring and program quality improvement.
• Ensure harmonization of program operating plans ensuring compliance with technical standards, guidelines and methodologies.

Position Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or Higher National Diploma in Agriculture or related field of study and two years’ work experience in development contexts, with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts.
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies.
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities.