Food Security and Livelihood (FSL) Officer at Albarka Healthspring Foundation

Details

• Albarka Health Spring Foundation with funding from CBM International will implement the BMZ-Transitional Development Aid funded Project in Sokoto State, towards strengthening the resilience of vulnerable households in selected communities of Sokoto South, Dangeshuri, Rabah and Wurno LGA’s.
• The project will support IDPs, host, refugee and returnee communities especially women-led household and persons with disabilities (PWDs) to improved their food security through increased and diversified household income, their health and hygiene situation, improve  provision of comprehensive and accessible WASH services, especially for women with and without disabilities Vulnerable people, who experience sexual, gender-based or disability-related violence, have learnt coping and resilience mechanisms and improved their psychosocial well-being through the protection services provided.

Strategic Project Objective

• Strengthening the Resilience of Internally Displaced Persons and Vulnerable Households in Host Communities in Northwestern Nigeria (Sokoto State).

Job Description

• The Food Security and Livelihood Officer is responsible for the implementation of the complementary livelihood activities in the BMZ-TDA project.
• The role will focus on providing skills building, financial literacy sessions and VSLAs to improve food and nutrition security for communities affected by the crisis.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with community leaders and other relevant stakeholders to support the identification and selection of vulnerable communities and beneficiaries;
• Support the identification, contracting, and management of vendors through regular engagement, documentation of vendors’ activities and provision of timely support throughout the project;
• Ensure accountability, fairness and transparency in the cash or voucher transfer activities by ensuring community-level stakeholders (IDPs and host community members) are well informed and provide regular information through available channels;
• Follow-ups on the program activities to ensure that program objectives and outputs are achieved – and activities are implemented following standard rules, regulations and operational procedures, agreed strategies, implementation plans and requirements;
• Contribute to organizational and sector-wide Learning through proper documentation of lessons learned, best practices, success stories, case studies, etc.;
• Implement the livelihood component of the Life-saving assistance project including financial literacy sessions, VSLAs;
• Provide targeted beneficiaries with inputs and support them with technical support during program implementation.
• conduct financial literacy, bookkeeping and business management training for the identified beneficiaries.
• Promote nutrition-sensitive and/or climate-smart agriculture interventions at the household level, including the provision of non-food items for small vegetable gardens to improve households' nutrition and self-sufficiency.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all activities and provide regular reports.
• Identify training and development needs of FSL Assistants and propose and/or provide training, coaching and mentoring as required;
• Work with the FSL team in different LGAs on cross-learning and beneficiary capacity-building initiatives.
• Maintain and build relationships with authorities, partners and relevant actors in all the intervention LGAs

Qualifications

• Degree in Food Security-related field e.g. Economics, Agronomics, Agriculture, Development Studies, etc.
• 3 years’ work experience in a relevant field.
• Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Excellent team, budget and project management, and representation competencies
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Capacity to supervise a team
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in written and oral English
• Understanding of local language is mandatory (Hausa).