Livelihoods and Food Security Officer -Afar (3 Positions)

Generic responsibilities 

1. Monitor and report on the project activities and ensure compliance with plans and NRC standards
2. Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need and explore and asses’ new and better ways to assist.
3. Suggest new methods and approaches to improve the quality of the activities
4. Ensure proper filing of documents both hard and soft copies.
5. Prepare, file and report relevant documents according to procedures

Specific responsibilities 

• Support the preparation of VBT implementation plans, activity schedules, and operational budgets.
• Coordinate VBT activities with WFP, relevant government offices, local authorities, community representatives, and humanitarian partners.
• Organize and facilitate community consultations and sensitization sessions on targeting objectives, eligibility criteria, selection procedures, and complaint mechanisms.
• Provide technical advice, and training on income generating activities, and other livelihoods related fields to refugees, IDPs Returnees, and Hosting Communities. 
• Ensure that targeting activities are implemented according to approved project documents, operational guidelines, and agreed timelines.
• Conduct or support household-level vulnerability assessments, registration, and verification activities.
• Ensure that the targeting process considers gender, age, disability, protection risks, household composition, and other relevant vulnerability factors.
• Identify and mitigate risks of duplication, exclusion errors, inclusion errors, and the registration of ineligible households.
• Ensure that beneficiary selection is based on established criteria rather than political, social, ethnic, religious, or personal affiliations.
• Ensure that beneficiary records are complete, accurate, consistent, and properly documented.
• Ensure affected communities understand the targeting criteria, selection process, assistance entitlements, and available feedback and complaint channels.
• Establish or support accessible and confidential complaint and feedback mechanisms.
• Conduct regular field monitoring to assess the quality, transparency, and effectiveness of VBT implementation.
• Track progress against planned activities, targets, indicators, and timelines.
• Document lessons learned, implementation challenges, good practices, and recommendations.
• Integrate protection, gender equality, disability inclusion, and conflict sensitivity into all targeting activities.
• Provide technical guidance and practical support to targeting members, community representatives, enumerators, and other field personnel involved in VBT activities.
• Liaise with the woreda level offices and other partners implementing related projects at the field level to ensure cohesion, synergy and complementarity of the activities of the Project with other interventions.
• Help empower the IDPs, Returnees, and hosting communities to enable them to manage their issues by themselves and be able to sustain Livelihoods and Food Security projects. 
• Identify risks associated with insecurity, displacement, population movement, access constraints, and changing household vulnerability.
• Ensure equal participation by all segments of the IDPs, Returnees, and hosting communities, taking into consideration issues regarding gender, age, disability and clan affiliation.
• Regularly monitor and evaluate Food Security and Livelihoods projects (VBT), performance and provide timely inputs, feedback and impact of the NRC Livelihoods and Food Security interventions.
• Play an important role in realization of project outputs and outcomes through timely implementation of activities in a well-planned, organized and coordinated manner.
• Ensure that NRC’s objectives are disseminated and raise awareness of NRCs approach ensuring all implementation follows NRC policies and procedures
• Actively participating in beneficiary selection, validation, registration and in distribution (in-kind and cash), prepare and sent organized report to Livelihoods and Food Security Project coordinator.
• Regularly monitor and evaluate Livelihoods and Food Security Projects performance and provide timely inputs, feedback and impact of the NRC Livelihood and Food Security interventions;

Program Management

• In consultation and under direct supervision of Livelihoods and Food Security Project coordinator, responsible for inputs contribution for preparing and implementing of annual and quarterly work plans.
• Report Livelihoods and Food Security projects monitoring details back to Livelihoods and Food Security Project coordinator.
• Regular monthly, quarterly and annual reporting to as per agreed format to Food Security and Livelihoods Project coordinator.
• Conducting relevant training to refugees, IDPs, returnees, and hosting communities on the subject of community mobilization, Livelihoods and Food Security.

Representation and Coordination

• Ensure that NRC maintains excellent and productive relations with all key stakeholders, especially beneficiaries, local authorities, partners and donors.
• Represent NRC at relevant meetings at kebele, IDPs and woreda, level with respect to Livelihoods and Food Security projects in the absence of respective Food Security and Livelihoods Project coordinator.
• With the support of respective Livelihoods and Food Security Project coordinator, conducting regular stakeholder analyses to ensure that NRC Livelihoods and Food Security projects have good understanding of dynamics/ relationships.

Financial Accountability

• Raising of PR’s through “AGRESSO”,
• Responsible for ensuring Financial Accountability of Livelihoods and Food Security projects at duty station that tasks include: –
• Playing an active role in managing the Livelihoods and Food Security projects financial management, documentation, payments to labors, goods and services as per NRC Financial Rule.
• Ensuring that all financial systems are followed and that financial reports submitted to NRC Field Office Finance team are accurate.
• Ensuring the finance and program teams have a productive engagement
• Any other duties as requested by Livelihoods and Food Security Project Coordinator and area manager.

Reporting Arrangements

• Regular action points agreed upon during joint Livelihoods and Food Security projects team meeting to Food Security and Livelihoods Project coordinator.
• Daily discussions with the Livelihoods and Food Security Project coordinator on the on-going activities Food Security and Livelihoods projects.
• Generic and un-timely report updates as requested to compile by Food Security and Livelihoods Project Coordinator and Area Manager as well. 
• Monthly and Quarterly work plans.
• Collate bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly reports from daily workers and send the reports to Livelihoods and Food Security Project coordinator.
• Ensure that plans are entered into the standardized format and are updated on a monthly basis.

Generic professional competencies: 

• Experience from working as a Project officer in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Vulnerable based targeting (VBT), data collection and registration.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge of English, Amharic and Afar.

Behavioural Competencies

• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Managing resources and achieving results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change.

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