Livelihood Assistant at Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD)

Role Purpose: 

The post holder will support assessments to lead the implementation of economic empowerment interventions for vulnerable adolescent and youth in program implementation sites. Specifically, Labor Market Assessment (LMA) and Income-Generating Activities (IGA) assessment focusing on the market assessment at project sites. He/she will provide vocational training, entrepreneurship support for young adults and promote Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLAs). 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Oversee the implementation of Livelihoods activities and administration of the teams across program field locations. 
• Develop activity work plans and manage day-to-day activity implementation. 
• Ensure that program implementation is responsive to community needs, meets targets, and is carried out in line with best practices. 
• Ensure that beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to vulnerability criteria. 
• Establish and maintain effective program reporting, and monitoring and evaluation systems (to track, analyze and report on results) for both internal and external use. 
• Integrate community approaches, protection mainstreaming, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate. 
• Ensure program filing system is in place, adheres to internal and donor regulation and filing is regularly maintained. 
• Coordinate with MEAL team to map, identify and register program participants. 
• Lead in the selection and registration of beneficiaries with support from MEAL team.
• Coordinate the sensitization and ensuring beneficiaries received necessary safeguarding support during project activities. 
• Facilitate training of beneficiaries on financial literacy, bookkeeping and smart saving practices. 
• Lead the market assessment to ascertain the most profitable skills in the intervention locations. 
• Coordinate post distribution monitoring with MEAL team. 
• Ensure effective community engagement to create enabling environment and ownership. 
• Submit monthly program update including success stories to the supervisor. 
• Identify emerging issues related to the livelihood program and make recommendation for further solution. 
• Working closely with the Livelihoods Advisor /project Manager and the project coordinator and/or other senior program staff, support timely program and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements. 
• With support from the Project Coordinator and/or other senior program staff, identify program supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan. 
• With support from the Accountability Lead ensure accountability is enforced in all project activities as well as ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design/implementation 
• With support from the community mobilization lead, ensure effective and efficient information sharing to relevant stakeholders and continuous program sensitization. 
• Work closely with partners and their staff to ensure project activities are implemented in time and within the stipulated quality. 

Qualifications and Experience: 

• 3 years relevant experience of working in livelihoods, including report writing. 
• Educational qualification: B.SC in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Economics or its equivalent in any related field of study. 
• Previous experience of project management and implementation of livelihoods component of humanitarian and/or development projects. 
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability. 
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation. 
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports. 
• Excellent communication and strong influencing skills. 
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy. 
• A high level of written and spoken English. 
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances. 
• High level of communication in a local language related to working environment 
• Familiarity with inter sectoral integration of project interventions 
• Experience in gender mainstreaming and social protection programming.