Job Description
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and
work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or
those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also
campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children
and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world
treats children by 2030:
- No
child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All
children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence
against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization,
and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions
for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding
career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition,
creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process,
which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the
protection of children from abuse.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child
safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and
through programme implementation carried out by the organization for
safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.
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Position: FSL Project Assistant
Location: Aden-Lahj
Grade: 5
Contract Length: 8 months
The Opportunity:
SCI Aden area of operations implements food security and
livelihoods activities covering responses in the areas of Unconditional Cash
Assistance/Transfers (UCA/Ts); Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT); market
assessments like labour market assessment to understand the kind of employment
intervention to provide; conduct income-generating activities (IGAs); community
rehabilitation works and community strengthening activities like – Cash for
Work (CfW); and the provision of agricultural inputs to support food and animal
productions, etc.
The Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL) Project Assistant
will support the FSL Officer in the delivery of the following day-to-day
activities in the field, with efforts towards addressing food and nutrition
insecurity in SCI implementation governorates. S/he will support FSL Officer to
- a) contribute to project design activities like field-level
assessments; b) project kick-off activities around community mobilisation; c)
strong governorates and district-level stakeholders engagements; d) project
implementation focusing on beneficiary selection; distribution of materials
(cash, livelihoods inputs – like farming inputs, grants, etc); e)
implementation of quality controls and technical support to FSL Assistant, and
community volunteer structures; f) work closely with MEAL to deliver MEAL
outputs; and g) address all community levels issues and risks as they arise.
SCOPE OF ROLE
Reports to: FSL Project Officer
Staff reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Responsibilities
Community Mobilization
- Sensitize
local authorities and communities to the project’s objectives, activities,
and selection criteria.
- Ensure
beneficiary selection criteria are understood by local authorities and
community members and that project beneficiaries have been identified
according to SCI’s economic, vulnerability and target criteria.
- Assist
in running community meetings and workshops in a participatory and
inclusive manner, to ensure that project activities are developed in
consultation with communities and consider vulnerable groups.
- Conduct
trainings with community members or target groups on various topics, as
required.
- Collect
and maintain lists of all beneficiaries with each project activity, to be
input by Data Assistant.
Activity Implementation
- Under
the direction of the FSL Project Officer, provide support with the other
Assistant to each project activity according to needs and to ensure timely
delivery. Activities may include:
- Conduct
beneficiary identification, selection and registration
- Oversee
distribution of materials and inputs – e.g cash transfers, farm inputs
distributions, etc
- Beneficiaries
verification at distribution points.
- Child
Protection/Safeguarding: Facilitate training for all staff and
beneficiaries on child safeguarding topics.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Verify
that the FSL Database Assistant has a complete beneficiary database that
is regularly updated.
- Follow-up
on feedback from M&E Officer and Accountability Assistants to ensure
that all findings are addressed and adjustments made to projects
throughout implementation.
- Conduct
regular field visits to monitor and troubleshoot, submitting reports to
the Programme Officer.
- Assist
in FSL assessments, surveys, data collection, and analysis as required by
Project Officers.
Reporting
- Assist
FSL Officers in compiling regular progress reports (narrative and
data).
- Any
additional tasks as requested by the line manager.
Qualifications and Experience:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- High
school certificate is the minimum qualification, but institute diploma or
continued education preferred.
- University
degree in social science, economics, agriculture, geography or other
discipline relevant to Food security and livelihoods.
- Relevant
training on the delivery of FSL components - including IGA, VSLS, CTP,
etc
- 3 year
experience working in Food Security and Livelihoods activities (ex.
food/commodity vouchers, food/NFI/cash distributions, vocational skills
training, agricultural/livestock projects, etc.) with INGO.
- Strong
ability to verbally communicate complex ideas to rural populations (in
Arabic).
- 3 year
experience working in Community Mobilization activities (ex.
extension/outreach work, campaign and awareness raising, thematic
promotion activities with communities, gathering people)
How to Apply
To apply:
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