Field Assistant - Food Security and Livelihood (Maiduguri & Jere) at INTERSOS

JOB OVERVIEW

Under the supervision of the Field Officer and Supervisors, the Fie ld Assistant is responsible for the provision of support, and to implement the Food Security – Livelihood and other related activities in the field in accordance with INTERSOS principles and ensure these field activities are executed in an efficient manner.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in all the Livelihood activities including Livelihood beneficiary targeting, and general program implementation.
• Conduct training and sensitisation activities related to the Livelihood project.
• Assist in Planning, supervising and monitoring training, awareness and sensitisation activities, including maintenance and verification of all supporting documentation and activities.
• Assist in mainstreaming protection and gender into all the project activities.
• Assist in Maintaining records of all activities, in order to complete timely reports for INTERSOS and for external actors, including donors. 
• Assist in Planning, coordination and monitoring all Livelihood-related activities, including Natural Resources Management, Crop Production, Income Generation activities, small scale Agricultural Marketing Strategy, Post-Harvest Management, Civic Engineering, Industrial Design, Water harvesting & Irrigation Management and the Food Assistance for Assets (Individual & Communal Assets) activities etc. 
• Assist the Livelihood Officer/Coordinator in project documentation.
• Promote the rights of displaced people and affected populations and explore and assess new and better ways to provide timely, effective and appropriate assistance. 
• Assist in gap analysis, needs assessment, conducting registration, receiving commodities and distributing to beneficiaries in locations adversely affected by the conflict.
• Ensure to enhance own capacity building by identifying need to immediate supervisor.

Implement other tasks as might be required with relation to the INTERSOS Country Program in Nigeria

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma, NCE B.Sc or any relevant Qualification
• Capacity to adapt to basic living conditions;
• Ability to put up with job pressure;
• Ability to deliver high quality work within tight deadlines;
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Work within the framework of IINTERSOS Nigeria’s core values.
• Act as an ambassador for INTERSOS Nigeria, through professionalism and conduct.
• Adhere to all INTERSOS policies and procedures both technical and administrational.
• Undertake and apply learning from appropriate training and development program.