Location: Bale
Job Description
TITLE: Food Security and Livelihood Officer
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Integrated Life-saving Health, WASH, MPCA, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Protection Support
GRADE: 4A
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people, either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
FSL Officer is responsible for the overall activities’ planning, execution, and reporting. He/she is directly assigned to, such as voucher-based animal treatment service delivery system along with supplementary livestock feed as a strategy to improve utilization of the feed and create veterinary service access to vulnerable drought-affected households in the project target area. Provide multi-purpose cash transfers to address the immediate non-food needs of drought-affected vulnerable HHs.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Report to: Food Security and Livelihood Coordinator
Dimensions: Communication and relationship management with a wide range of stakeholders, including the Woreda Education Office, Consortium members, and stakeholders.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
- To ensure the selected beneficiaries for both MPC and Animal treatment as well as supplementary feeding will be registered on paper (although there will be a database of beneficiary profiles) and provided with cards for future verification and monitoring purposes
- Conduct Beneficiary verification and registration simultaneously or during separate community visits. The Beneficiary Registration List is a critical document, linking specific beneficiaries to their cash transfers
- Plan and integrate evidence from the Cash project into concurrent programming and future planning and resilience building program for development and replication;
- To increase child sensitivity, the MPC should be linked to key services for children such as health, nutrition protection, and education.
- To help ensure that the MPC meets children’s needs, SCI will strengthen existing/establish community-based case management systems/ structures to support better follow-up, monitoring, and referrals for children to specific services.
- The MPC will also be accompanied by a strong SBCC component to influence behavior and decision-making for children’s well-being at the household level
- provide supplementary animal feed (total mixed ration-TMR) to households
- will support a targeted voucher-based animal treatment service delivery system along with supplementary livestock feeds
- Awareness raising on the importance of destocking, and conditional supplementary animal feed transfer linking to destocking
- Identify interested private livestock traders, bringing together the livestock traders and beneficiaries
- Support voucher-based animal treatment service along with supplementary livestock feed to improve utilization of the feed. The households targeted for supplementary livestock feed will also receive voucher-based animal treatment service
- Incorporate analysis and lessons learned into new strategies, proposals, and activities.
- Support learning from relevant best practices internally and externally, especially Save the Children International’s child-sensitive livelihood guidelines (particularly on implementing livelihood and other programs to strengthen better outcomes for children);
- Ensure programming interventions are implemented in cooperation with targeted communities, and include the participation of children in their design
- In cooperation and synergy with the project staff, plans and monitors the activities progress, in compliance with the donor regulations and contract signed with the donor, with donor’s and Save the Children ’s procedures, and with the specific Project Structure and Reporting Lines definition, making use of the financial instruments provided by the organization;
- In collaboration with the Administrative and the Logistics team, plans and monitors the expenditures in line with the project’s implementation needs;
- In cooperation with the Program Coordinator, finalizes the data provided by his/her team, supports the preparation, in compliance with the deadlines, of the narrative reports expected by the donors and by the partners;
- Represents SC with the local / State authorities and partners at Coordination meeting
- Manages the goods purchased fort he project; for all goods purchased by the project, support updates of the inventory and guarantee the respect of the policies and guidelines, in cooperation with the Logistics Office;
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development, and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members, and external partners and supporters
- values a broad definition of diversity and sees it as a source of organizational strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- honest encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates the highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
- BA degree in food security/nutrition and /or Humanitarian/ Development Studies or any related field.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- At least 3 years of working experience in/with INGO. In the FSL area. Experience managing projects is a +
- Proven interest &commitment to humanitarian and development principles and a demonstrable understanding ofconflict/post-conflict development contexts
- Experience in data collection, analysis, and report writing including post-distribution monitoring (PDM)
- Excellent in written andspoken English and Afaan Oromo
- Ability to plan, organize work, communicate andreport effectively (bothin writing and verbally)
- Proven ability to prioritize tasksand meet deadlines
- team player, effective communicator, successful negotiator, creative and analytical thinker, active learner, able to workin a multicultural environment
- Excellent communication skills, calm, with a good senseof working in an inter-cultural environment
- Proven commitment to accountability practices
- Ability to function effectively under stressful conditions such as heavy workloads, and deadlines.
- Excellent Microsoft Office applications skills (Excel, Word, Power point, Emails, Skype, Web researchers)
- Knowledge of and adherence to SC Code of Conduct, understands other international development guidelines
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as setout above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.