Role purpose:
Save the Children is seeking to recruit an officer to deliver humanitarian assistance in order to ensure a smooth implementation and monitoring of food security and livelihoods projects. This includes cash projects as a mechanism for assistance, vocational trainings and small business development.
Child safeguarding:
Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.
Scope of role:
Reports to: FSL Coordinator
Staff directly reporting to this post: 2 FSL Assistants
Key areas of accountability:
Programme implementation
- – Ensure implementation of livelihoods activities (direct and/or in collaboration with partners) in line with programme implementation plans and against donor requirements/ indicators.
- – Act as the main liaison between communities and municipalities and the Save the Children office; maintain good relationships with beneficiaries, and professional relationships with local leaders/authorities.
- – Actively participate in the collection and analysis of information used to determine vulnerability, and create transparent targeting criteria.
- – Assist in the beneficiaries’ registration and distributions in collaboration with communities.
- – Promote accountability and transparency with all the implementing activities.
- – Assist in the development of training/ awareness raising materials, and organize and conduct trainings for programme beneficiaries and stakeholders.
- – Assist in the capacity development activities of partners, including and not limited to technical support, training sessions and coaching visits.
- – Assist with the training of the FSL Assistants to ensure they have solid understanding of key programme documents and tools, including Monitoring and Evaluation questionnaires.
- – Participates in internal and external coordination meetings as required, and interact regularly with Save the Children’s other sectors (education, child protection, health/nutrition, shelter) to ensure coordinated and efficient programming.
Programme monitoring
- – Prepare weekly and monthly work plans and ensure the FSL assistants follow the plans
- – Organize monitoring visits and part
- – Organise collection of market data from local shops and suppliers
- – Organize and assist in data collection and analysis for beneficiary and community selection, as well as for monitoring and evaluation
- Produce timely reports for internal use on the status of on-going programming
- – Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
Qualifications and experience:
- – Degree in Economics, Finance, International Relations, Development studies or similar field
- – Minimum 2-3 years of experience in development programs, preferably working in food security and & livelihoods, and with experience in cash/voucher activities
- – Experience in managing a team
- – Good time management skills
- – Experience in data collection
- – Experience in field work and community mobilization; and in training groups of beneficiaries
- – Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English
- – Computer skills (especially Excel)
- – Strength in interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
- – Flexibility and willingness to change work practices and hours, and capability to work in insecure environment
- – Available to travel in country
- – Emergency programming
- – Food Security and Livelihoods
- – Cash and voucher programming
- – Familiarity with refugee communities in country of operation
COMPETENCIES:
Applying technical and professional expertise: Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards;Promotes and shares best practice within and outside the organization.
Communicating with impact: Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust with others.
Leading and inspiring others: Demonstrates leadership in all our work, role models our values, and articulates a compelling vision to inspire others to achieve our goals for children.
Delivering results: Takes personal responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious goals for children, continually improving own performance or that of the team/ organisation.
Developing self and others: Invests time and energy to actively develop self and others to help realise their full potential, and to build the organisation’s capability for the future.