Job Description

Action Against Hunger-Horn and Eastern Africa is part of the Action Against Hunger International network, which provides humanitarian relief in over 40 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security and livelihoods. Action Against Hunger Horn and Eastern Africa is an independent NGO, currently managing operations in Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda.

Summary of Position

The Food Security and Livelihoods Officer, based in Beletweyne, reports directly to the Senior FSL Program Manager and plays a key role in implementing the FSL project in Beletweyne District. The officer will facilitate community mobilization to support beneficiary targeting and registration, and will work with beneficiaries of agriculture inputs, cash support, and animal health interventions

Purposes: Lead field implementation of FSL activities in line with ACF standards, ensuring program objectives are achieved through community engagement, follow-up, and documentation of impacts and success stories.

Engagement: Work with communities, stakeholders, and internal teams to mobilize beneficiaries, promote inclusion, share information, and strengthen collaboration.

Delivery: Implement agriculture and animal health interventions, conduct distributions and monitoring, maintain beneficiary data, provide regular reports, and represent ACF in coordination forums.

Specific Duties

• Actively participate in communicating the ACF project activities to the relevant stakeholders and the target communities.
• Takes lead in identification, and registration of HHs and groups that will benefit from the project activities.
• Ensure equal participation by all segments of the community, taking into consideration issues regarding gender, age, and people with disabilities. Ensuring normally excluded groups are included.
• Implement agriculture support. Identify project beneficiaries using set criteria, lead distributions and conduct regular field visits to monitor crop performance and utilization of the agricultural inputs by the beneficiaries.
• Implement animal health support. Identify community animal health workers using set criteria, lead distributions and conduct regular field visits to monitor performance of the CAHWs, access to animal interventions.
• Conduct community awareness sessions on various issues as required.
• Provide timely inputs, feedback, updates and weekly reports to the FSL HoD and Senior FSL program manager.
• Maintain a clear database of all possible participants in the program and provide regular updates (at least monthly) to the MEAL Coordinator
• Working with the FSL PM and MEAL team carry out routine project monitoring.
• Compile monthly reports on the performance of the agriculture inputs and animal health interventions beneficiaries.
• Actively contribute to the FSL programming in Beletweyne District.
• Attend all relevant coordination foras at the district level and when required at the regional level.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the line manager.

Working Conditions, Travel and Environment

• The duties of the job require regular job attendance of at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
• Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic official matters. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and outside weather conditions and long hours traveling by road.

Experiences and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in food security and livelihoods related fields, i.e. Agricultural, Agronomy, animal health, Crop Science, development studies.
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in direct implementation of agriculture extension and working with subsistence farmers.
• Experience using vulnerability-based targeting and resilience design in agriculture are required.
• Minimum of 3+ years working in animal health programming.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Extensive experience in community participation and consultative implementation methods.
• Flexibility to adjust to new implementation practices and new strategic guidance.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and being a self-initiator.
• Good facilitation, analytical, planning and report writing skills
• Experience in community and farmer group mobilization
• Good supervisory and organizational skills, good interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of agricultural issues and techniques
• Good knowledge of implementing projects
• Self-motivated and reliable
• Experience and knowledge of working with NGOs in agriculture and business, cash and animal health projects programs in Somalia
• Knowledge of written and spoken English, Understanding of the Somali language.
• Proficient in MS Excel, MS Word and Outlook
• Willing to extensively travel throughout the project area.

Benefits

Action Against Hunger-USA provides all staff with an attractive salary & benefits package. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees & qualified applicants for employment without regard to gender, ancestry, age, handicap, disability, marital status. Action Against Hunger-USA complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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