Food Security & Livelihoods Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Duty Station:     Maiduguri, Borno State
Deadline:     24th March 2017.  Applications received after this date will not be considered.

Specific Objectives: 

• Responsible for successful planning, coordination and implementation of program activities including market assessments for profitability of income generation activities following the promotion of gardening activities and beneficiaries group formation, etc..
• Managing programs includes both gardening activities and food assistance activities. Assessing positive and negative impacts of some livelihoods and culturally sensitive livelihood activities and experience in mitigating them.
• Coordinate closely with the FSL DPM to ensure that cross-LGA programs are being implemented. Work with the FSL team in different LGAs on cross-learning and beneficiary capacity building initiatives.
• FSL activities and M&E data with facilitate the revision and improving of approaches. Participate in and inform longer-term discussions with the FSL team regarding FSL Program implementation strategy.
• Contribute to the development of project community mobilisation strategies for targeting and registration of beneficiaries for the FFP program.
• Plan sensitisation activities or capacity building for targeted communities with focus on Extension workers, Traditional Volunteer, traditional leaders and other key stakeholders in feasible livelihood restoration activities.
• Contribute to strategy formulation for progress of the FSL programme in consultation with LGA team, FSL Deputy Program Manager and other stakeholders.
• Where appropriate, prepare regular reporting for submission to LGA authorities with validation of FSL Deputy Program Manager.
• Recruit and train program staff with the support of the FSL DPM, Emergency Program Manager and Head of Base.
• Identify training and development needs in FSL team and propose and/or provide training, coaching and mentoring where necessary and relevant.

Qualifications:
Bachelors in a food security related field e.g. Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies etc.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive.
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies.
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Three years relevant work experience.
• Capacity to supervise a team.
• 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 Hausa, Kanuri and English.
• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers).
• Previous team management and activity planning experience.
• Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy.
• Previous experience with ACF.
• Previous donor programming experience (e.g. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA).
• Analytical capacity.
• Good relational qualities.
• Good knowledge of  techniques and agricultural/animal health production systems.
• Good knowledge of implementing projects.
• Capacity to write high quality reports.