Livelihood Officer

Swiss Church Aid/HEKS is the aid organization of the Protestant Churches of Switzerland and has its headquarters in Zurich/Switzerland. Swiss Church Aid/ HEKS works towards a more humane and more equitable world, assisting people and communities to overcome economic, social or humanitarian disparities in order to gain autonomy and to live with dignity both in Switzerland and abroad. Therefore, Swiss Church Aid/ HEKS engage in development cooperation, humanitarian aid and church cooperation and works in more than 30 countries and runs around 200 projects world-wide. Swiss Church Aid/ HEKS is a member of the ACT Alliance.

In Ethiopia, Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER) has country programmes with focus on Natural Resource Management, WASH, Inclusive Markets for Smallholder Pastoralists & Farmers and Humanitarian Assistance for drought and conflict affected communities. The Ethiopia Country Office is recruiting a Livelihood Officer for its Project in Somali Region, Liben Zone.

Key areas of responsibilities are:

·         Directly responsible the quality implementation of the planned livelihood activities and as per the DIP, agreed project implementation modality /approach and timetable with donor.

·         Facilitate the identification and selection process of project target beneficiaries using standard procedures - participatory community wealth ranking method beneficiaries in collaboration with local community and Local government structure.

·         Responsible to orientate and brief the selected project target HHs and the local communities have clear understanding on the project purpose, interventions, objectives, their responsibility, and expectation, etc.

·         Establish and maintain a good rapport with project beneficiaries, as well as local government officials, community leaders and relevant local organizations.

·         Facilitate the implementation of planned training of the project for target HHs, and project stakeholders with standard quality and agreed project plan with donor.

·         Conduct and facilitate training on Agricultural and related topics for beneficiaries in collaboration with the relevant government sector office staff/ expertise’s.

·         Develop and prepare operation action plan for community-based agriculture and MPCA activities in collaboration with concerned bodies.

·         Provide technical support and supervision of  crop,  restocking and veterinary service   activities.

·         Support the strengthening of  the CAHWS  and  provide overall technical support.

·         Support project staff in the timely identification of implementation challenges and their resolutions with appropriate strategies.

·         Coordinate all Livestock related assessment in the project areas.

·         Support all undertakings in cash-based and in-kind interventions, and associated extension services.

·         Facilitate and ensure the participation of the communities including the marginalized groups through all possible methods in all aspects of project activities.

·         Participate in assessment /surveys (early warning, baseline data, intervention impact, case studies, etc) and collect and document relevant data to the project.

·         Collect and document all progress in the implementation of activities (at activity, output, and impact level) and maintain project data, record, and documents.

·         Produce and submit periodic quality progress reports on livelihood (weekly, Bi-weekly, and monthly) per the format to the field coordinator in a timely manner (on due date).

·         Prepare and share case stories on the livelihood interventions for learning.

·         Facilitate and arrange monitoring visits on the livelihood interventions.

·         Ensure that all cross-cutting issues like accountability, gender, inequality, HIV/AIDS, DRR, are mainstreamed in the implementation of the project activities.

Others

·         Adhere to HEKS HR policies and procedures such as Code of Conduct, Anti-Fraud policy.

·         Perform any other task as assigned by line manager.

• Bachelor’s degree  in Agriculture, Rural development, Agriculture economics and related fields of study with minimum 3 years for BA holders  with relevant and proven experience.
• Practical and proven field experiences in agriculture, NRM and rural development.
• Computer Literate.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written English. Somali is mandatory.
• Excellent report writing capacity
• Excellent interpersonal communication and skill
• Good staff management experience and capacity

Desirable

·         Gender sensitive and experience with inclusive approach (work with people with disabilities, extreme poor families, minorities and other marginalized groups.

·         Good networking, demonstration skills, and team player with sensitivity to cultural diversity

·         Personal integrity, excellent analytical ability and proactive,

·         Effective communication, persuading and negotiation skills

·         Experiences in development projects

·         Friendly, outgoing, willing to travel and work flexible hours,

·         Working under pressure

·         Commitments to Swiss Church Aid/HEKS’ organizational values