We work to prevent family breakdown and care for children who have lost parental care, or who risk losing it. We work with communities, partners and states to ensure that the rights of all children, in every society, are respected and fulfilled.
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The Livelihood Officer will provide technical and management support to families on the programme to develop and implement community-based sustainable livelihoods initiatives via either promotion of employment-oriented initiatives and enhancing skills or engaging in income-generating activities.
He/she will work to strengthen caregivers and young adults’ livelihood capacity to achieve sustainable income generation and be able to attain self-reliance.
Responsibilities
The livelihood officer will give Priority attention to interventions that would have immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic wellbeing, aiming to reduce their vulnerability; e.g. access to start-up support for job creation, access to low-interest loans for micro-business development, individual skills training, targeted vocational or entrepreneurship training, job placement, internship, business expansion support, etc.
Support families to identify ‘gaps’ in attaining self-reliance while linking it to the keys to self-reliance based on the development needs of each child within their care
Support families to establish set goals, milestones with timelines and develop actionable plans to achieve the defined set goals to address the identified gaps
Ensure that the organisation keeps its commitments, in terms of support services committed to in the FDPs action plans;
Empower families to have improved household income to actively support the development of their children and be self-reliant
Support young adults and caregivers in setting up viable small-medium scale businesses with good business plans and link them to other funding sources for business scaling-up and expansion
Implement skills-based innovative sustainable livelihood community initiatives that have a direct and immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic activities, aiming to reduce the family’s vulnerability and increase their chances of being self-reliant
Identify weaknesses and strengths in the livelihoods activities and map the best way forward to enhance strengths and mitigate adverse impacts or weaknesses;
Ensure gatekeeping and case management guidelines are followed in providing specifically tailored interventions targeted at supporting families to attain self-reliance
Conduct activities in a community- and rights-based, participatory manner, maintaining an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD), and conflict-sensitive approach for community engagement
Ensure timely and quality progress and financial reporting by partners in line with agreed templates and schedules
Monitor programme implementation of partners (contractors, consultants, grantees) in accordance with agreements, work plans, deliverables, and timelines
Carry out regular reviews of the situation of the families and the support provided to them by the programme
Contribute to the realisation of sustainable income generation for families to provide quality care and protection for their children
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
HND / BSc Degree in a relevant subject area, such as Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Community Development, Social Work etc
Minimum of 1 year of experience in the field of livelihood, community engagement and youth development within the NGO/INGO sector
Understanding of child development issues, including knowledge of child rights, child protection, child welfare, childcare and parenting; and relevant local and national laws, regulations and protocols
Proven experience with working with teams across diverse locations.
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