Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL) Officer at Oxfam

Location: Damboa, Borno
Duration: Three (3) Months with possibility of extension

Job Purpose

• To implement food distributions and other food assistance projects in Damboa LGA

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• To support the implementation of food security/livelihoods programming, including cash transfers and market assessment.
• To support activities which includes holding community meetings and focus group discussions, promoting social mobilisation, beneficiary targeting process, and post-distribution monitoring, food security and livelihood assessment market prices surveillance monitoring, trader and money transfer assessment.
• To lead on community-level data collection and ensure adherence to work plan.
• Ensure that EFSVL is integrated with other programme teams, including water and sanitation engineering teams, and public health promotion teams.
• To apply gender-sensitive approaches to the community work and be comfortable to be involved in or lead community sensitisation and awareness sessions.
• Actively support to monitor the impact of our work on the people, supervising, monitoring and reporting on output indicators of the project.
• Implement accountability systems to ensure that communities engage in programme design and implementation, and use the Feedback and Complaints system.

Educational Qualification and Competence

• First degree in Sociology, Agriculture, Microenterprise development or its equivalent in any relevant discipline.
• At least three years of experience in appropriate community mobilisation. livelihoods, and/or cash programming in early recovery setting with national or International organizations.
• Proven ability to work creatively, innovatively, using owns initiative with limited direct supervision as well as working effectively as a team player.
• Knowledge and experience of baseline assessments, data gathering
• Proven assessment/analytical skills and the ability to contribute to written and verbal reports succinctly in English.