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

Location: Monguno, Borno

Job Summary

• The position is based in Monguno, Borno State and supervised by the Sector Manager-FSL. The FSL Officer is responsible for supporting 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 uptake of critical household health and hygiene behaviors with the aim of providing primary health care, water, livelihoods sources, sanitation and hygiene services. 

Task and Responsibilities

• Facilitate community mobilization towards economic activities.
• Support in the implementation of capacity building training including business management, book keeping, market linkage and profit maximization for the target beneficiaries at the LGA level.
• Contribute to developing and implementing detailed work plan for FSL team at LGA level activities in collaboration with FSL Assistant.
• 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
• 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.
• Participate in writing situation reports with information on food security, security information at the community when required.
• 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 the local level.

Position Requirements

• Degree in Agronomy, Agriculture or any other related fields.
• Minimum of 2 years’ relevant work experience in humanitarian contexts with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts.
• Have previous experience managing FSL interventions (i.e. cash based transfer, IGA, agriculture/livelihoods).
• Strong computer literacy, organizational and report writing.
• Commitment to Action Against Hunger’s values, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to adapt and be flexible.
• Capacity to analyze and resolve problems including taking appropriate action.
• Ability to share information in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to define goals, realistic and specific objectives.
• Capacity to establish priorities in order to achieve expected results.
• Excellent 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 and Hausa.