Closing: May 17, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: May 8, 2024 (12 days ago)
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Experience and technical competencies:
- 4 or more years’ experience working with I/NGOs within humanitarian/development contexts
- Demonstrable experience in livelihoods/food security programming within refugee/host community settings
- Demonstrates a good understanding of Project Cycle Management
- Has excellent communication (spoken and written) skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and other relevant computer applications
- Good planning and organizational skills coupled with problem-solving ability
- Possess good level of conflict management skills
- Possess a sense of cultural awareness, sensitivity and respect for diversity
- Strong organizational, team spirit and team work skills
- Knowledge of the key issues and trends in livelihood/food security interventions
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Business Administration, Commerce, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Sociology, International Development/Relations or Economics
- Further short trainings in drylands agriculture, entrepreneurship, technical education, value-chain development, making markets work for the poor (M4P), community-managed microfinance/savings groups, MIS for savings groups or agricultural production highly desirable for this role.
Languages:
- English – Advanced
- Kiswahili – Intermediate
- Somali (added advantage)
Responsibilities
Experience and technical competencies:
- 4 or more years’ experience working with I/NGOs within humanitarian/development contexts
- Demonstrable experience in livelihoods/food security programming within refugee/host community settings
- Demonstrates a good understanding of Project Cycle Management
- Has excellent communication (spoken and written) skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and other relevant computer applications
- Good planning and organizational skills coupled with problem-solving ability
- Possess good level of conflict management skills
- Possess a sense of cultural awareness, sensitivity and respect for diversity
- Strong organizational, team spirit and team work skills
- Knowledge of the key issues and trends in livelihood/food security interventions
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Business Administration, Commerce, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Sociology, International Development/Relations or Economics
- Further short trainings in drylands agriculture, entrepreneurship, technical education, value-chain development, making markets work for the poor (M4P), community-managed microfinance/savings groups, MIS for savings groups or agricultural production highly desirable for this role.
Languages:
- English – Advanced
- Kiswahili – Intermediate
- Somali (added advantage)
R1. Project Management and Development:
- Participate in project planning & implementation including activity, budgeting and procurement/logistics planning
- Develop and maintain detailed implementation plans to deliver program to agreed timeline and milestones
- Ensure all project activities are implemented on time and in line with the set-out work-plans
- Promote collaboration and synergy between refugee focused interventions and the host communities
- Prepare and conduct community sensitization forums/meetings with community leaders and beneficiaries in the refugee and host community set up
- Document lessons learned from training activities, community meeting and assist in preparing training reports
- Promoting business/farm group development through support, coaching, mentoring, regular feedback and identification of investment needs and opportunities.
- Supervise core components namely education scholarships, drylands agriculture & vocational skills as well as the supportive sectors namely, micro-enterprise development, savings groups, financial literacy and value-chain/market-development in conjunction with colleague technical officers.
- Organize and coordinate livelihood related stakeholders’ meetings/workshops/forums to enable the active, free and meaningful participation of project beneficiaries in the design and implementation of project activities within refugee and host communities
- Assist in developing livelihoods concept notes and proposals
- Offer technical support in vocational skills and drylands agriculture to colleagues in other locations.
R2. Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation:
- Keep accurate records of events and activities including meeting/class/training attendance.
- Collect and analyze livelihoods data on a monthly basis
- Participate in periodic field level programme review and planning meetings
- Support with weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual donor/internal reporting
- Develop case studies, human interest stories, et cetera, for use in communications and monitoring reports
- Ensure project staff supervised adhere to CHS Principles in the day-to-day project implementation and participate in CHS audits
- Support in implementing M&E plans
- Participate in/facilitate baseline surveys, needs assessments and conduct consultative meetings with the project stakeholders
- Organize and conduct education scholarships monitoring sessions and collect data.
R3. Coordination & Partnerships:
- Serve as the liaison with stakeholders and relevant Government of Kenya departments from the location to divisional levels
- Promote collaboration and synergy between the DRC host community projects and the similar projects/groups in the Dadaab refugee camps
- Ensure and maintain mutual linkages with the County and Sub-county offices especially with any related line ministries to enhance their understanding of program needs in the assigned area of operation.
- In the absence of the Team Leader – Livelihoods, represent DRC in livelihood and education inter-agency coordination meetings
R4. Budget Management:
- Monitor the related budget-lines in order to maintain programme expenditure within budget parameters, ensuring adherence to DRC financial procedures and donor requirements with the support of the Team Leader
- Take parts in periodic budget review meetings to ensure effective budget implementation
R5. Staff Supervision:
- Line supervision of national and incentive livelihoods staff
- Staff performance monitoring
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