Livelihoods Agriculture Assistant Iraq Nineveh

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 4 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 4 (NRC) contracts.

1-Role and responsibilities:

The purpose of the assistant position is to assist in the day-to-day implementation of the Agriculture and Livelihoods projects, conducting community-based activities, ensuring community involvement, and assisting with open dialogue/communications between NRC and targeted communities.

Generic responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines
• Implement delegated Agriculture and livelihoods project portfolio according to the plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and assess new and better ways to assist
• Promote and share ideas for technical improvement

Specific responsibilities

• Supporting in the implementation of agriculture and livelihoods activities as requested by LM.
• Establish strong working relationships with targeted communities, including local leaders and identification of local focal points
• Implement beneficiary targeting and verification process for various activity streams
• Implement/support beneficiary registrations
• Support partners/contractors/trainers to implement agriculture and business-focused training programs
• Conducting cash or in-kind distribution for agricultural and livelihoods support.
• Implement NRC Community Engagement Approach
• Conduct Focus Group Discussions, household surveys, and Key Informant Interviews, with assistants and enumerators
• Work directly with enumerators and community focal points
• Support with referrals to other NRC sectors or through external referral mechanisms
• Reporting and providing the LM with regular progress and updates.

• Other relevant tasks are requested by the line manager.

  2-Our Ideal Candidate :

• One (1) year experience as an assistant in a humanitarian/development program

• Experience in using MS Excel, MS Office, and MS PowerPoint is essential
• Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Experience conducting beneficiary identification, verification, and registration
• Experience supporting referrals and/or identifying service providers
• Experience conducting focus groups, questionnaires, and surveys
• Fluent Arabic and Kurdish is required
• Some knowledge of English (basic proficiency)

3. Other Information

Contract Duration: to be decided by end of Dec 22, the contract extension is subjected to the fund availability

Duty Station: Iraq-Sinjar

Health Insurance is provided

Salary: G4/S1, According to NRC’s Iraq salary scale and terms and conditions. NRC is an equal opportunity employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

For more information please read the Job Description