Livelihoods and Food Security Specialist Kenya Nairobi

Overview

Develop LFS strategy and provide technical support for implementation

You have:

• Minimum 5 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Experience implementing Graduation programme.
• Knowledge and skills in market analysis, cash-based interventions and market based programmes.
• Experience in external and internal coordination.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of the humanitarian context in Kenya.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contracts.

The purpose of the Livelihood and Food Security (LFS) Specialist position is technical development of the specific LFS, strategic direction and quality assurance, development of the country LFS strategy and quality control of programmes with livelihoods and/or food security components. The LFS Specialist is responsible for mentoring, training and capacity building of staff on LFS technical issues and approaches.

Generic responsibilities

1. Develop LFS strategy and technical guidance that are aligned with regional and global strategies and priorities
2. Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
3. Identify trends technical standards and donor priorities
4. Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within LFS, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
5. Provide technical direction and project implementation support
6. Ensure that key learnings are extracted from LFS implementation, and incorporate them in LFS and staff development processes
7. Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff, in approaches including (but not limited to) cash-based interventions and market based programming
8. Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors
9. Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy

Specific responsibilities

• Gather and analyse food security and livelihoods-related data from target or proposed target populations, as part of integrated or joint assessments, and use this in response analysis to develop contextually appropriate, technically sound new projects and programmes and inform advocacy efforts.
• Support the consideration and inclusion of market based programming within NRC Kenya Common Objectives, through development of guidance, SOP and interdepartmental engagement.
• Support the implementation of Graduation projects, providing a technical role, developing the required tools, monitoring the results and coordinating with the external technical support received from Trickle Up.
• Technical focal point for projects focusing on livelihood protection and promotion through environmentally sensitive and commercially viable skill-building and market linkages for refugees and host communities.
• Technical focal point for projects supporting economic and financial inclusion for refugees and host communities in Kenya, including supporting the creation and/or growth of local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), savings groups/schemes, cooperatives or other relevant structures and systems.

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Minimum 5 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
• Experience implementing Graduation programme
• Knowledge and skills in market analysis, cash-based interventions and market based programmes
• Experience in external and internal coordination
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the humanitarian context in Kenya

For more information, here is the detailed Job Description

Additional Details:

Duty Station: Nairobi, Kenya.

Type of Contract: 1 year,

Travel: 40%

Salary: Based upon the NRC grading Scale

This position is open to Nationals only

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