Food Security and Livelihood Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Action Against Hunger is the world’s hunger specialist and leader in a global movement that aims to end life-threatening hunger for good within our lifetimes. For 40 years, the humanitarian and development organization has been on the front lines, treating and preventing hunger across nearly 50 countries. It served more than 21 million people in 2018 alone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Food Security and Livelihood Officer

Location: Monguno, Borno State with frequent movement to campus and communities
Reporting to: Food Security and Livelihoods Program Manager
Proposed start date: October 2023

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee detailed planning and support implementation of field-level activities relating to cash-based food assistance under the guidance of the FSL program manager;
• Work with community leaders and other relevant stakeholders to support the identification and selection of vulnerable communities and beneficiaries for cash or food voucher support;
• Support the identification, contracting, and management of vendors through regular engagement, documentation of vendors’ activities and provision of timely support throughout the project;
• Ensure accountability, fairness and transparency in the cash or voucher transfer activities by ensuring community-level stakeholders (IDPs and host community members) are well informed and provide regular information through available channels;
• Follow-ups on the program activities to ensure that program objectives and outputs are achieved – and activities are implemented in accordance with standard rules, regulations and operational procedures, agreed strategies, implementation plans and requirements;
• Contribute to organizational and sector-wide Learning through proper documentation of lessons learned, best practices, success stories, case studies, etc. on the cash-based intervention in emergency and early recovery context;
• Plan and oversee regular program monitoring and evaluation activities, like Baseline, PDMs, Market Price Monitoring, end line, etc. in collaboration with relevant unit/departments;
• Ensure field visits to monitor the ongoing project activities conducted by FSL Assistants and the Community Mobilization team to provide support and technical guidance;
• With FSL Programme Manager, collaborate on the development of tools to monitor and improve the quality of BHA Project;
• Conduct beneficiary training on usage of smartcards, and training monitoring with the support of FSL Assistant and FSL Programme Manger;
• Conduct Vendor training and oversee the monitoring of vendors' activities to ensure beneficiaries are not short-changed;
• Participate in the LGA-level coordination of Cash and Food Security Working groups;
• Support the development of communication mechanisms with key stakeholders at LGA and Ward levels;
• Maintain and build relationships with authorities, partners and relevant actors in all the intervention LGAs of Borno State on behalf of ACF;
• Support the FSL Programme Manager in reporting for internal and external use through drafts reports with inputs and outputs for the reporting period;
• Support the Sector Manager in producing monthly, quarterly and annual reports;
• Support the recruitment and training of program staff under the support of the  FSL Program Manager, Project Coordinator and Base HR;
• Identify training and development needs of FSL Assistants and propose and/or provide training, coaching and mentoring as required;
• Manage the daily activities of the program staff in order to ensure the smooth running of the FSL program in line with HR procedures and policies;
• Undertake performance management activities such as 10 minutes conversation and performance appraisals for FSL assistants as required by HR;
• In collaboration with the HR department, ensure support to the field teams for all matters concerning human resources;
• Work with the FSL team in different LGAs on cross-learning and beneficiary capacity-building initiatives.

Position Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Economics, Development Studies and other related fields;
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in implementing food security and livelihood projects
• Experience in a supervisory position;
• Good knowledge of FSL;
• Good Knowledge of Cash and Voucher Programming;
• Good knowledge of implementing projects in insecure contexts;
• Thorough knowledge of and understanding of issues in agriculture – Good  communication with other people – Experience in team support – Humanitarian experience-  experience in Advocacy & dissemination of information on innovation;
• Fluency in Hausa or Kanuri and English Languages.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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