Livelihood Officer

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:

The purpose of the Emergency Agriculture Recovery officer position is to facilitate implementation of Emergency Agriculture components of integrated Multi Sector project. The job holder is responsible to the facilitation of targeting selection, input distribution and trainings components of the project. The job holder is expected to support and monitor the implementation of Emergency Agriculture components of the integrated Multi sector response project, participating the woreda agriculture office experts. She/he is responsible to organize training session to selected target beneficiaries and provide regular support. The job holder also responsible to produce progress reports, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports and submit in a timely manner.

• Facilitate selection, registration and verification of beneficiary HHs to be addressed and submit the list in excel to Emergency Livelihood Project Coordinator.
• Ensure project information is shared, complaints are managed correctly, and feed backs are provided to the complaints, and beneficiary selection is validated by relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate implementation of emergency livelihood project in the target woreda as per the detail implementation plan in alignment with donor and government requirements.
• Prepare input distribution plan, facilitate the distribution, collect and document input distribution list and report to Emergency Livelihood Project Coordinator.
• Facilitate training of agricultural extension agents and roll out of the training to targeted beneficiary together with agriculture office
• Monitor and collect data of project implementation regularly and report the progress and challenges and lessons learned to the Emergency Livelihood Project Coordinator.

Required Professional Experience

• 3 years’ and above experience in Agriculture/livelihood project implementation and/or emergency response
• NGO experience is preferable.
• Knowledge and experience of emergency response is an advantage.
• Grass root work experience in development projects management, emergency response, especially in hardship environment.
• Experience of working in the work location is a plus

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Minimum BSc/BA in the fields of Agriculture, Rural Development and related field of study.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Intensive skills of working on MS-word and MS-excel
• Experience of supervising emergency projects
• Analytical skills of field data recording, good report writing and presentation

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Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only