FSL Officer - Household Economic Strengthening (HS) at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Location: Monguno, Borno
Job type: Full Time
Starting date: July 2019
Direct Line Manager: FSL Sector Manager

Job Purpose

• The Household Economic Strengthening Officer supports the Sector Manager in the implementation of Income generating activities and household economic strengthening under the FSL component of the EU project.
• The aim is to achieve the specific objective of EU project is to improve nutrition security of conflict-affected populations through the uptake of critical household health and hygiene behaviors with the aim of providing primary health care, water, livelihoods sources, sanitation, and hygiene services.

Objective 1

• Provide support in the implementation of income-generating activities and household economic strengthening component of the program at LGA level

Tasks   & responsibilities:

• Facilitate community mobilization towards economic activities.
• Work with traditional committees to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable beneficiaries for income generating activities.
• Ensure IDPs and host communities provide information to ensure accountability, fairness and transparency during cash support disbursement activities.
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on the implementation of planned activities with the support from the FSL Sector Manager
• Support in the implementation of capacity building training including business management, bookkeeping, market linkage and profit maximization for the target beneficiaries at the LGA level.
• Directly implement in the field the activities defined in the program in close collaboration with the FSL Household Economic Strengthening Assistant and Community stakeholders.
• Contribute to developing and implementing a detailed work plan for the FSL team at LGA level activities in collaboration with FSL Assistant.
• Contribute to organizational and sector-wide learning through documentation of lessons learned, best practices, evaluations, etc. on income generating activities component of the program.
• Contribute to preparing FSL internal and external Economic Strengthening reports
• including case studies and success stories etc.

Objective 2

• Collate information and data on economic strengthening activities at LGA level through surveys, assessments, regular post-distribution monitoring, and field supervision visits of beneficiary households

Tasks   & responsibilities:

• Supervise and collect information to ensure that the surveillance of the economic situation in the area of implementation of the program is achieving the expected result when required.
• Supervise and collect the required information in the field to facilitate the capacity building and training program, with the support of the FSL Household Economic Strengthening 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 Sector Manager to ensure that cross GA programs are being implemented in synergy.
• Coordinate closely with the FSL (Agro recovery and social protection), Nutrition, WASH teams in different LGAs on cross-learning with the aim of revising and improving approaches.
• Participate in and inform longer-term discussions with the program team (FSL, WASH, and nutrition) regarding program implementation strategy.
• Support M&E team in activities monitoring (beneficiary targeting, identification, registration, and training; market and livelihood assessments; baseline and endline surveys,post-distribution monitoring, price monitoring, field monitoring visits, focused group discussions (FGD), etc)
• Contribute to the development of tools to monitor and improve the quality of FSL Economic Strengthening programming.
• Support the preparation of documentation required for the implementation of field activities.
• Ensure harmonization of program operating plans and protocols across the program as well as the mission, with the help of technical support from FSL sector Manager, review tools and approaches, and ensure that technical standards, guidelines, and methodologies are communicated and understood. 

Objective 3

• Mobilization and awareness raising about the organization, Economic Strengthening objectives and activities to local authorities and the population, and act as a link between the Organization and the beneficiaries (at LGA level)

Tasks& responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of project community mobilization strategies for targeting and registration of beneficiaries for the income generating activities.
• Implement sensitization activities for targeted communities about Economic Strengthening activities and strengthening livelihood restoration activities with support from relevant State, LGA and community stakeholders, in feasible livelihood restoration activities at LGA level.
• Support in the verification of the beneficiaries to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable population is verified based on project proposal and organizations policies before Economic Strengthening intervention is made.
• Support the FSL DPM in ensuring that targeting of beneficiaries to receive cash based Economic Strengthening interventions are carried out in a transparent way which guarantees protection and gender sensitivity in the field way and with the active participation of women, men and minority members of communities.
• Facilitate good working relationship between state, LGA, community level stakeholders and target beneficiaries.

Objective 4

• Participate in regular internal and external coordination for the program at LGA and state levels when required.

Tasks  & responsibilities:

• Collaborate with all other ACTION AGAINST HUNGER departments and sectors to ensure the project activities are integrated in line with Logistics, Finance, HR and security procedures and SoPs.
• Collaboration with other partners including relevant state government ministries, INGOs, NGOs, CBOs and the UN working in assigned LGA.
• Work in collaboration with the communities and local leaders at all stages of project implementation.
• Ensure that the project (implementation of Economic Strengthening activities) is well represented in regular LGA level meetings and forums.
• Ensure proper records are kept of all expenditure and usage of materials; and cash advances received from finance are  properly retired after each activity
• Ensure that documentation is properly done for all cash distributed (donation certificates, delivery notes, beneficiary lists and  supply request order)
• Preparation of weekly movement plan for assigned LGA according to the team planning and share update with Sector Manager.

Objective 5

• Reporting

Tasks& responsibilities:

• Coordinate with FSL Household Economic Strengthening assistants to compile and submit monthly activity reports.
• To provide reports according to the request of the FSL Economic Strengthening deputy program manager (Bi - weekly updates, success stories, case studies etc.).
• Participate in writing situation reports with information on food security, security information at the community as needed and/or requested
• Including, but not limited to: Compiling weekly and monthly reports and ensuring timely submission of such written reports to the Sector Manager-CBTSP for consolidation and sharing with the Multi-sectoral program manager.

Objective 6
Performance Management:

• Communicate Action Against Hunger performance standards and expectations to team members which includes ; 10 minutes monthly conversation, 3 months/end of probation performance appraisal and annual/ end of contract appraisal.
• Establish performance objectives, provide feedback, identify strengths and areas for professional improvement.
• Contribute to the professional development and improvement of team members by providing support.

Additional responsibilities:

• This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and the employee will also perform other related tasks as required and is responsible for reporting and communication of progress and achievement of the specific assigned task.
• The employee should be flexible and adaptable with regards to the implementation of the daily work/activities.
• The employee is expected to conduct all duties in a professional manner following Action Against Hunger Nigeria mission staff regulations and charter including the promotion of gender equality.

Reporting Responsibilities:

• Field activity reports as determined by line manager
• Contribute to donor reports and other program specific inputs
• Internal and external evaluation reports
• Learning documents and case studies
• Contribute to Ad-hoc reports (assessments reports: PDM, baseline, endline, newsletters, etc.)

Internal & External Relationship
Internal:

• FSL Sector Manager: hierarchical relationship
• Technical coordinators: Technical oversight, technical support, coaching
• Multisectoral Program Manager: exchange of information, reporting, collaboration, coordination
• Other Project Officers/Sector Managers: Nut/FSL/M&E: exchange of information on programs, coordination and monitoring and evaluation (integrated approach)
• Support departments: collaboration and exchange of information

External:

• Local authorities: communication, exchange of information in collaboration with the FSL CBT-SP DPM and Multisectoral PM
• Local Technical Coordination: lobbying, animation and leadership
• Other NGOs : partnerships and technical exchanges or sharing of experience
• Population and beneficiaries : definition of needs, targeting, communication and exchange of information
• Participate actively in Food Security Working Group, Cash Transfer Working Group , OCHA meetings, INGO forum,
• Local and state government: Engage with stakeholders in coordination with FieldCo, Multisectorial PM and FSL Economic Strengthening DPM.

Qualifications

• Degree or HND in Agric Economics, Business Management or accounting.

Essential:

• Minimum two years’ work experience in humanitarian contexts, with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts.
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Strong computer literacy, organizational and planning skills, report writing and budget oversight.
• Commitment to upholding Action Against Hunger’s values, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to be adaptable and flexible.
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word).
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in English, Hausa and other local languages (Fulani and Kanuri)  Commitment to ACTION AGAINST HUNGER mission, values and policy.

Preferred:

• Previous experience managing FSL interventions (i.e. cash based transfer, LGA, agriculture/livelihoods)
• Previous experience with ACTION AGAINST HUNGER
• Experience implementing programming on behalf of donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, SIDA) funded activities

Minimum Basic Salary
N236,585 NGN per month