Household Economic Strengthening (HES) Officer at Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC)

LOE:   100%

Departments:  Programs

Reports to:  Program Manager

Primary Function

• The Technical officer HES will provide technical support on HES in the capacity strengthening of Community Volunteers to provide high quality livelihood services for vulnerable households and populations.
• She/he will assist in the development of assessment tools, analysis of household vulnerability assessment results and articulation of appropriate relevant interventions to address identified gaps
• She/he will be responsible for writing reports of HES Community of Practice meetings and trainings while providing logistical and programmatic support during such activities

Job Responsibilities

• Promote economic development among vulnerable households and populations (women, youth, young mothers and people with disabilities) based on a graduation model approach
• Ensure timely preparation of high quality training and meeting reports
• Provide high quality mentoring, support and supervision to CVs on economic strengthening
• Participate in the monthly review meeting of partners’ progress reports, identify promising practices and HES accomplishments of research significance in furtherance of 4GATES learning agenda
• She/he will maintain strong partnership with implementing CVs, government and private sector players and other relevant stakeholders in manner that reflects professionalism, mutual respect in accordance with Caritas value based behavior
• Work closely with M &E unit to ensure that Community Volunteers properly capture and report HES interventions
• Monitor progress toward targets; identify and implement approaches to overcome challenges.
• For HES and food security activities, support timely completion of required work planning, donor narrative reports, quarterly reports and performance indicator tracking tables, baseline and final evaluation reports and other reports needed/required by the local government, donors, the region or headquarters.

Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor's degree in any relevant discipline
• A certificate in agricultural economics, food science, public health or a related discipline will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 2 years work experience in VC programming especially in household economic strengthening with good knowledge of community-based programming and program management responsibilities. Experience working with an international NGO will be an advantage
• Technical skills and experience in household economic strengthening.
• Experience in agriculture, food technology, savings-led microfinance methodology will be an added advantage
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate training in key areas including savings-led microfinance, private-service provider models, and agro-enterprise
• Experience working with household poverty and food security assessment tools
• Demonstrated ability to support CVs working at a distance to achieve results against program objectives/targets
• Ability to work independently and as part of a dynamic team
• Demonstrated experience in Nigeria VC response, VC programming principles and integrated programming approaches
• Ability to work under pressure