Livelihood Officer - Economic Empowerment at Plan International

Role Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to have an experienced Livelihoods Officer in income generating activities (IGA) for the WFP livelihood project located in Pulka, Borno state.
• The officer will be in charge of IGA aspect of the project and all that is related to economic empowerment of the target beneficiaries.

Dimension of Role

• The Livelihood Officer-Economic Empowerment will be responsible for the IGA intervention of the project, this includes knitting, soap making, livestock production business and other chosen ones by the target beneficiaries in Pulka.

Key Roles/Responsibilities

• Oversee the beneficiary selection for IGA adaptable to the environment.
• Supervise the NFI on IGA
• Train the beneficiaries on different IGA including soap making, knitting and tailoring. Collate all data on the IGA.
• Collect information on government units and partners that are into small scale business and share with the project coordinator
• Supervise the community assistants that work on IGA.
• Report all areas of IGA to the project coordinators and link up with livelihood specialist through the coordinator for any support.
• Design the techniques of improving project delivery on IGA.
• Develop the capacity of the team on IGA.
• Contribute to overall reports of livelihood project.
• Design and follow up a local value chain of IGA especially soap making, tailoring and knitting in Pulka and environment and see how the project beneficiary will benefit from it.
• Support market development on selected IGA of the beneficiaries in the target area.
• Any other assignment from the livelihood coordinators or his/her delegate.

Qualifications and Technical Competencies

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Management, Home Economics, Entrepreneurship Development.
• Experience in working in deep field location
• Good knowledge of vocational studies, ability to train on knitting, soap making, tailoring and other vocational studies.
• Knowledge and experience in M&E.
• Experience with participatory learning approaches.
• Experience of conducting assessments in emergency contexts.
• Experience of training on relevant crop production.
• Fluency in English and Hausa, written and spoken

Skills & Knowledge:

• Ability to work independently and as a team player who demonstrates leadership and is able to support and train local and international staff and also able to work with disaster affected communities in a sensitive and participatory manner.
• Excellent negotiation, representation, skills and the ability to work comfortably with an ethnically diverse staff in a very sensitive environment.
• Strong organizational and work prioritization skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work cooperatively.
• Proven ability to solve problems independently without direct supervision.
• Good facilitation skills and ability to deliver induction briefing/training.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels, and to maintain this under pressure.
• Ability to work with limited supervision from line manager.