Project Officer -Re-Advertisement (Open to Somali Nationals Only)
Action Against Hunger, Somalia

Organizational background:

Action Against Hunger leads the global movement to end hunger. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 24 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 50 countries, our 8,300 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. We strive to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good.

Action Against Hunger USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network. As an independent NGO, Action Against Hunger USA currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Haiti. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $100 million in programs, and approximately 1,800 permanent staff based in New York City, Washington D.C, Nairobi, and country offices. Additional growth is anticipated.

1. Job Summary

The Project Officer position is based in Jowhar and directly reports to resilience Program Manager and will play a key role in implementing the AICS Project amp; EU-BREACH project, facilitates community mobilization activities to support targeting and registration of beneficiaries and improve food, security and livelihood/cash based Intervention knowledge, attitudes and practices, assists in the preparation of monthly progress report, plans and provide leadership to the FSL team in Jowhar.

Purpose

The Project Officer (Agriculture) position will;

• Responsible for making follow-up of the FSL activities to ensure that FSL program objectives and outputs are achieved.
• Ensure that the FSL activities in the assigned area of operation are implemented in accordance with Action Against Hunger standard rules, regulations and operational procedures, agreed strategies, implementation plans and requirements.

Engagement

• Represent Action Against Hunger in community meetings, food security or emergency response meetings in coordination with FSL team.
• Coordinate the preparation of tender and contract documents for project, Bills of Quantities, and Request for Quotations, etc.

Delivery

• Implementation of project activities
• Preparation of Activity reports
• Liaison with the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation

2. Essential job duties:

Objective 1: Social mobilization and need assessment in the field

• The Agriculture Officer facilitates community mobilization activities to support targeting and registration of beneficiaries and improve food, security and livelihood based Intervention knowledge, attitudes and practices
• Assist in the preparation of monthly progress report, plans and provide leadership to the FSL team.
• Contribute, participate, and lead the registration of beneficiaries for agricultural related interventions and answering technical questions
• Contribute, participate, and lead the distribution and implementation of agriculture activities that include seed and tools distribution and Agro-related training, and Agro-related interventions among others.
• Organize and support running of agriculture activities in the target district.

Objective 2: Support field level FSL coordination elaboration

• Coordinate closely with the FSLPM to ensure that FSL related activities in the assigned areas of operation are implemented harmoniously and with quality.
• Provide inputs to the design amp; utilization of project information gathering tools amp; project activity manuals.
• Work with the other program team members on cross-learning and beneficiary capacity building initiatives especially in relation to FSL.
• Participate in FSL related data collection together with the MEAL team.
• Work in close collaboration with Nutrition, WASH, and Health teams on ensuring field level integration and synergy.
• Build capacity of other staff members in relation to cash and Agro-related FSL components.
• Other relevant duties as directed by the PM, or HOD or Specific responsibilities

Objective 3: Spearhead community facilitation activities:

• Contribute to the development of viable community mobilization strategies for targeting, registration, and follow-up of FSL beneficiaries.
• Plan and execute FSL related capacity building for targeted communities.
• Conduct follow up monitoring of FSL activities in the area of operation.

Objective 4: Documentation and reporting:

• Prepare and compile FSL activity reports on weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and yearly and share with resilience PM.
• Regular monitoring o

Job Rewards and Benefits