Emergency food security and livelihood project manager

ROLE PURPOSE

The position holder will be responsible for the management of Emergency livelihood/Food security projects and ensuring the quality and effectiveness of Plan’s emergency response within Oromia PA including project implementation, day-to-day monitoring and reporting.

Accountabilities and Main Work Activities

• Organize and Lead Multidisciplinary Emergency teams 
• Lead a multi-disciplinary professional emergency teams consisting of (up to 3 staffs) working in the project site such as livelihoods officers and CDFs
• Ensure emergency assessments are effectively undertaken and implement integrated emergency response, recovery and exit strategies in close collaboration with major partners and stakeholders
• Ensure all team members clearly understand and carry out their duties in accordance with personal work-plans, humanitarian principles, core values, the Code of Conduct and SPHERE.
• Work collaboratively in close relation with all team in the field coordination office, Amhara or Tigray field office coordinator/manager and concerned CO staffs
• Promote productive work environment respectful of the Code of Conduct with zero tolerance for verbal and physical abuse or discrimination against other persons on the grounds of race, colour, sex or creed.
• Ensure all team members (CDFs) are fully briefed on all aspects of security, social and cultural norms and local conditions and behaviour.
• Create the conditions to ensure effective teamwork and morale is strictly observed. 
• Provide feedback on periodic performance of CDF’s to PC and provide timely feedback to CDFs along with PC.
• Ensure logistical resources demands are fully assessed, identified, described and communicated to the Program Implementation Manager and all concerned staffs,
• Ensure compliance with all Ethiopian government legal, contractual, labour and statutory requirements.
• Communicate effectively on usage, procedures and relevant communications protocols to all emergency response team under his supervision.

Managing project budget 

• Provide support for field emergency finance and logistic teams in providing financial and related documents that help for settlement purpose. 

Project implementation coordination, monitoring, follow up and reporting 

• Provide leadership in designing, implementing and monitoring sound emergency and recovery livelihood project activities in Plan targeted districts as per the agreed project documents and work plan including income-generating activities, CTP and the provision of livestock and seed inputs;
• Coordinate and lead livelihood & recovery projects during planning, budget preparation, implementation, M&E and timely reporting ensuring quality and standards through enhanced partnership with government and non-government partners zonal, woreda and local levels and also civic organizations including CBOs;
• Directly own & lead the designing/development of FSL projects and ensure projects are effectively implemented, monitored/reviewed, evaluated and progress and final reports are timely compiled and submit to the PIM.
• Facilitate joint supportive supervision with concerned government sectors from region and district (through drafting and submission of ToR to PC)    
• Lead the beneficiary selection with CDFs, community representatives and government structures
• Verify and organize beneficiary master data before submitting to project manager for further submission to the CO before project input distribution.
• Ensure adequate monitoring, reporting and acquittal of emergency response activities in accordance with donor regulations, country and national office requests, international humanitarian accountability frameworks and relevant SPHERE standards
• Provide continuous technical and organizational support and capacity building to field team and woreda and community level extension agents
• Facilitate and directly involve in input distribution and ensure delivery of project inputs and services on timely basis;
• Ensure the  Field Office Coordinators are kept informed about project progress as required (daily, weekly plan and monthly achievements);
• Contributes to their individual accountability plan and understands how they contribute to the team and organisational plan.
• Organize training for field staff of Plan and partners to build core skills in livelihood concept, recovery and resilience building;
• Actively participate in rapid assessments and provide input in designing of concept notes and project proposal in areas of emergency response, livelihoods recovery and food security; 
• Directly implement of project activities based on agreed standards and carryout in accordance with the agreed LoA with the donor, work-plans and proposals

Managing relationship and networking with government, partners and other stakeholders 

• Participate in coordination meeting held at Woreda and community levels and provide progresses regarding the project implementation.
• Establish and maintain constructive working relationships with other NGO’s and UN agencies operating in the district, local government, bilateral and multilateral donors, and other principle stakeholders including the military where present and if necessary.
• Collect and organize sex disaggregated beneficiary data and submitted to the coordination office, and provide required information to Project Manager that help to produce progress report in accordance to the reporting template and within their reporting schedule.

Conduct community need assessment before developing projects 

• Participate in and support regional need assessments, surveys and other studies and assist proposal development to finance projects
• Facilitate visits that planned by regional government, CO as well as the donor.  

Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) 

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day to day work.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications/ experience essential:

• MSc in Crop Production and Agronomy, Agricultural Development, Agricultural Economics, Development studies or other related fields is required with a minimum of 5-7 years of related working experience.
• Good managerial experience, including managing budgets

 Qualifications and experience desirable

• Equipped with sufficient level of  awareness on : Early warning concepts; agriculture, Disaster risk management practice and knowhow; food security and livelihoods framework and Gender,
• Knowledge of Plan policies and procedures, Sphere and the Red Cross/ NGO Code of Conduct
• Knowledge of child rights programming
• Good knowledge of field level realities of humanitarian NGOs work;
• Experience of working in Tigray and speak  Local language;  
• Knowledge of FSL, CTP, Agriculture, EWS, DRR and DCM;
• Good understanding of the external operating environment including government policies, strategies, guidelines and operating procedures in managing emergencies and disasters in the country Perform multiple, non-technical tasks with a potential need to upgrade skills in order to meet changing job conditions.
• Ability to work independently

Languages required

• English language
• Knowledge of local language is desirable