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

Duty Station:     Monguno, Borno State

Specific Objectives: 

• Facilitate community mobilization, meetings and trainings during community led FSL activities;
• Work with traditional committees to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable IDPs and host communities and provide information to ensure accountability, fairness and transparency during implementation of activities.
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of gardening and food assistance planned  activities with the support from the LGA Supervisor;
• Support in the implementation of capacity building training for the target beneficiaries at the LGA level.
• Collect the required information in the field to facilitate the capacity building and training program, with the support of the LGA Supervisor.
• Support the M&E team in analysis of beneficiary data collection through the various tools that the department uses.
• Contribute to the development of project community mobilisation strategies for targeting and registration of beneficiaries for Gardening and Food Assistance.
• Implement sensitisation activities for targeted communities about gardening and food assistance activities with support from SEMA, Extension workers, Community Volunteers, traditional leaders and other key 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 before inputs and transfers are made.

Qualifications:
Diploma 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, good human relationships, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive.
• 1 year relevant work experience.
• Experience in the FSL and social approach.
• 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.
• Good team spirit.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

•  Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy.
• Previous experience with ACF.
• Previous humanitarian programming experience.