Project Officer-Livelihood& Resilience

Required Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, or a closely related field from a recognized university.
  
• At least 2–3 years of relevant experience in food security, livelihoods, WASH, or climate-smart agriculture programming.
  
• Demonstrated experience in community-based project implementation, including planning, monitoring, and evaluation of integrated development projects.
  
• Practical experience in climate-smart agriculture (CSA), small-scale irrigation systems, water management (e.g., greywater reuse, water harvesting), or sustainable food production systems.
  
• Experience working with vulnerable communities, including household-level livelihood and nutrition interventions.
  
• Proven ability to engage and collaborate with government agencies, NGOs, and community structures.
  

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience in scaling up development innovations or replication of pilot projects.
  
• Knowledge of nutrition sensitive agriculture, infant and young child feeding (IYCF), or community nutrition programming.
  
• Experience with solar-powered irrigation systems, hydroponics, or precision irrigation technologies.
  
• Familiarity with ASAL and urban informal settlement contexts in Kenya.
  
• Experience working with World Vision systems and programming approaches.
  
• Knowledge of county government systems, policies, and planning processes.
  

Required Professional experience

• Strong technical understanding of integrated water, food, energy, and nutrition systems.
  
• Experience in supervising field activities, contractors, and community-based facilitators.
  
• Proven skills in project planning, budgeting, and implementation tracking.
  
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection, analysis, and reporting (experience with digital tools such as LMMS, GIS, or similar platforms is an added advantage).
  
• Ability to facilitate training, capacity building, and community mobilization.
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and adaptive management skills.
  
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English.
  
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple priorities
  

Project Implementation, Technical Leadership and Scale-Up Delivery

• Lead the implementation of integrated water, food, energy, and nutrition interventions, ensuring fidelity to the scale-up design and adaptation to local contexts (Kalawa and Changamwe).
  
• Provide technical oversight on installation and use of key innovations including greywater recycling systems, farm ponds, solar-powered irrigation, drip irrigation, and hydroponics/vertical gardens.
  
• Guide the application of the tiered household package model to support incremental adoption of technologies by vulnerable households.
  
• Ensure integration of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and energy-saving solutions (e.g., improved cookstoves) within household interventions.
  
• Coordinate closely with county government departments and extension systems to align implementation with local development priorities and ensure sustainability.
  
• Facilitate community mobilization, beneficiary targeting, and inclusion of Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) households.
  
• Strengthen capacity of community resource persons and lead farmers to support demonstration-led adoption and peer-to-peer learning
  

Quality Assurance, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL)

• Develop and operationalize detailed implementation plans (DIPs), budgets, and monitoring frameworks aligned with project outputs and timelines.
  
• Oversee real time data collection and management using LMMS and GIS tools to track adoption, performance, and outcomes.
  
• Conduct regular field monitoring, technical backstopping, and supervision visits to ensure functionality and quality of installed systems.
  
• Track financial performance in collaboration with finance staff, ensuring cost-efficiency and adherence to budget.
  
• Lead documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and evidence from the scale-up model to inform replication.
  
• Facilitate quarterly reflection and learning forums with communities, partners, and stakeholders.
  
• Prepare and submit high-quality monthly, quarterly, and final reports.
  

Advocacy, Partnerships and Systems Strengthening

• Strengthen partnerships with county governments, technical departments, and local stakeholders to embed solutions within existing systems.
  
• Support integration of project approaches into county plans, budgets, and extension services.
  
• Contribute to development of technical briefs, case studies, and evidence products for advocacy and external engagement.
  
• Promote community voice and participation in local planning and decision-making processes.
  

Resource Mobilization and Scale-Up Support

• Contribute to development of concept notes and proposals to expand or replicate the model.
  
• Support identification of funding opportunities with donors, private sector, and government.
  
• Promote community contribution and cost-sharing mechanisms to enhance ownership and sustainability