Project Officer – Agriculture & Gender

Overview

Facilitate climate-smart livelihoods and gender programming to empower communities.

You have:

• 4 years’ experience in Gender, Livelihood, Agriculture, Environment, disaster risk management, rural development, emergency responses, commodity/cash programming and or related field.
• Degree in community development, Environment, Agriculture, Environmental management/natural resources management or related field.
• Good communicator and mobilizer.
• Knowledge of and adherence to the Red Cross and NGO Code of Conduct.
• Knowledge of humanitarian industry including SPHERE standards, Good Enough Guide.
• Ability to engage with local communities, partners and government authorities.
• Ability to work under pressure to ensure demanding timescales are met.
• Ability to work both as part of a team and alone, supervised or unsupervised.
• Working knowledge of English and local language.

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

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

Livelihood and Gender Programming

• Facilitate the establishment and scaling of diverse climate-smart livelihood opportunities tailored to the needs of women and youth in the targeted communities.
• Oversee and support community-led rangeland restoration efforts, ensuring sustainable practices that align with environmental conservation goals.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to women- and youth-led Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), enhancing their access to inclusive financial services and promoting financial literacy.
• Implement Community Based Targeting, among the communities in a clear understandable manner according to the guidelines provided.
• Mobilize the community and guide the process of committee’s selection.

Project monitoring, Documentation and Reporting

• Organize and conduct training sessions, workshops, and awareness campaigns on sustainable, gender-responsive natural resource management, targeting community members, local leaders, and stakeholders.
• Facilitate discussions and activities that challenge traditional gender norms, promoting women's economic participation and leadership within households and communities.
• Monitor community project implementation and measure/collect work norms on monthly basis
• Facilitate community awareness of project ownership and sustainability
• Collect monitoring data with community members in a collaborative and systematic fashion.
• Support in the supervision of community-based monitoring activities, as necessary in the programme context.
• Participating in monthly, quarterly, and end project reports and success stories in the project.

Gender and protection Mainstreaming

• Ensure the project is mainstreamed with protection and Gender aspects
• Implement and monitor World Vision Somalia’s protection system within humanitarian unit
• Make sure and work that protection is part of World Vision Somalia’s feedback and complaints mechanism
• Communicate and disseminate World Vision Somalia’s protection policies and procedures for staff and concerned stakeholders and partners.
• Conduct induction/orientation, training and capacity building of staff on how to mainstream/ GBV protection in project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Receive, compile, analyse, share and file protection related feedback and complaints
• Establish referral pathways to ensure beneficiaries receive holistic support.

Stakeholders Engagement and Coordination

• Liaise with Community, Government authorities, stakeholders; provide project information regarding beneficiary registration, distribution plans, and project progress. Coordinate with government, local and international NGOs, UN agencies and other stakeholders to ensure holistic support for beneficiaries.
• Actively represent WVI at coordination forums
• Timey submission of 5W matrix to the Project Manager
• Manage and maintain relationships with community leaders, women’s rights platforms and other community-based organisations.
• Identify and report on other needs such as health care, additional food needs, development activities, or any other rehabilitation and/or development activity.
• Train communities on beneficiary and committees’ selections, do not harm principals.
• Support Project Manager and Technical Advisor in roll out of new initiatives within the community

Required Professional Experience

• 4 years’ experience in Gender, Livelihood, Agriculture, Environment, disaster risk management, rural development, emergency responses, commodity/cash programming and or related field.
• Good communicator and mobilizer
• Good understanding of World Vision and sphere standards.
• Knowledge of and adherence of the Red Cross and NGO Code of Conduct.
• Speaks and understands local language
• Ability to engage with local communities, partners and government authorities

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Degree in community development, Environment, , Agriculture, , Environmental management/natural resources management or related field.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

Knowledge of humanitarian industry including SPHERE standards, Good Enough Guide, NGO code of conduct and humanitarian charter

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, Power Point etc.)

Professional technical skill desired: Excellent organizational, negotiation skills and strong interpersonal skills (certification)

Working knowledge of English, and local language.

Demonstrates well-developed interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, as well as negotiation skills

Self-motivated, with a proven ability to learn quickly, multi-task and work independently as well as part of a team

Strong problem-solving skills, keen attention to detail with an analytic approach to work

Ability to work under pressure to ensure demanding timescales are met

An aptitude for working in a changing environment and managing multiple priorities

Ability to work both as part of a team and alone, supervised or unsupervised

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

50 % Domestic, with some international travel, as required.

Physical Requirements :Office-based with frequent travel to the field

Language Requirements:

Somali

English

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only

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Added 1 month ago - Updated 24 days ago - Source: wvi.org