CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3:  the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more) because he/she works in community level. So that the role holder has knowhow and act towards ensuring organization’s child safeguarding policy (Awareness creation for prevention, reporting and responding).

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: FSL Zonal Coordinator

Staff Directly Reporting to this Post: None

Dotted line relationship - None

Functional relationship - Zonal FSL coordinator, regional technical team   

Project Overview:

The intense war that was conducted on Tigray during the period of October 2020 to November 2023 has left heavily damage to the agriculture, health, nutrition, WASH, education, and other major sectors of the region. This conflict led to major losses of agricultural inputs, tools and livestock, as well as the destruction of agriculture and livestock service facilities. The economic and social services have disrupted and driven to food insecurity, malnutrition, health and psychosocial problems and water shortages all over the region due to the war crisis.

The proposed intervention aligns with SC Humanitarian Plan 2023 and is designed in accordance with interim guidance issued by inter-cluster coordination group of Tigray region. Through the proposed intervention 2,234 Households (an estimated will receive cash enough to procure three-month worth of food equivalent to meet their minimum dietary requirement of 2000k/ca/day. The cash will be distributed in three rounds according to SCI Ethiopia Standard Operating Procedures for cash transfer activities.

The target area includes: Endabatsahma, Maikenetal, Ganta Afeshum, and Sewha Saese  woredas of the Eastern and Central Zones of Tigray region. These woredas are selected because of high food insecurity in the area as indicated in the national humanitarian hot-spot classification. Furthermore, SCI has ongoing multi-purpose cash distribution in the woredas through funding from Swiss Solidarities that was only able to cover less than 3% of the case load hence required significant more resource to accommodate the humanitarian requirements in these woredas where SCI is the only major non-governmental humanitarian organization.

The project will use a community and needs-based identification approach where people affected by the conflict will be prioritized for selection. The selection of affected individuals will be a shared responsibility between local government and community bodies, with government maintaining oversight at all levels. Priority will be given to support economically vulnerable households, living under the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB), who are most affected by the conflict with no alternative coping strategies, as guided by standard humanitarian practices. The proposed project will run for five months (August 2023 to December 2023) in the indicated four woredas of the region.

Job Summary:

The Kebele community facilitators/CF who will base at selected kebeles of the four project woredas, are responsible for the proper implementation of the planned project activities (distribution of cash for food). The kebele CF is responsible to ensure proper implementation of the project at kebele level. S/he shall actively participate and strengthen the cash for food interventions among the different and relevant sectors with that of the agriculture sector at kebele level. Identify strategies and facilitate the implementation of the cash for food activities among vulnerable households, establishes support and partnerships with local actors and smallholder farmers to improve livelihoods and increased nutritional values. Facilitate linkages with other agricultural, health and nutrition programs, international NGOs, private sector businesses, and government agencies at the kebele level. Follow proper implementation of the project selection criteria and ensure the right beneficiaries are selected for the program support.

Mobilize target beneficiaries, support reporting, monitoring and evaluation, assuring that project related data and reports are submitted in project formats on timely basis.  

Job specific roles and responsibilities

·      Coordinate and closely work with kebele level stakeholders and ensure proper implementation of project activities such as provision of the cash for food program.

·      Ensure targeting beneficiary committees are established at kebele level.  

·      Provide orientation on the beneficiary selection criteria to the established beneficiary targeting committee.

·      Support and closely work with the kebele level beneficiaries targeting committee and ensure project beneficiaries are selected as per the project selection criteria.

·      Conduct the required screening and verification process so that ensure inclusion/exclusion errors are minimized.

·      Collect beneficiary and other related data and share to the FSL zonal coordinators to be filled into the project data base.

·      Closely work with the FSL zonal coordinator and ensure timely delivery of cash for the target beneficiaries.

·      Provide continuous follow up and ensure beneficiaries use the cash for the intended objective/procurement of food.

·      Collect data related to the project, summarize, and report to zonal coordinator.

·      Together with the SCI MEAL team, appropriate accountability mechanisms are established and properly used.   

·      Establishes support and partnerships with local actors and smallholder farmers to improve livelihoods and increased nutritional value through demonstrations on new agricultural and nutritional technologies.

·      Works closely with the SCI MEAL team to generate practical information that can be used for on-going program decision making while also capturing results at the outcome and impact levels. 

·      Ensure that resources allocated reached the right beneficiaries, for the right objective in the right time.

·      Coordinate with save the children other CF and woreda level sectors for proper planning and implementation of livelihood/agriculture activities at woreda and kebele level.  

·      Ensure that proper planning and implementation of the planned project activities, cross cutting sectors; gender, learning agenda, sustainable approaches, and convergence/overlay of multi-sector agricultural/livelihood interventions.

·      Collaborate with gender specialist and gender focal persons/taskforce to deliver gender sensitive agriculture and livelihood activities at woreda and kebele levels.

Support reporting and monitoring and evaluation, assuring that quality reports are submitted using standard project formats on timely basis. 

Job Requirements

MINIMUM QUALFICATION, EXPEREINCE, COMPETENCIES

Education qualification

·      Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Economics, and other similar social and natural science studies.

Experience

·      At least 2 years of experience implementing livelihoods and economic strengthening programs required, with significant experience/one year in NGO supporting diverse economic strengthening activities such as cash and food distribution activities.  

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY

·       Strong written and oral communication skills, as well as the proven ability to work collaboratively with organizations and stakeholders. Experience working with private sector, government agencies and beneficiaries on livelihoods programs.

• Ability to travel throughout the focus kebeles of the woreda and other rural areas as needed.

• An understanding and commitment to work to achieve the intended objective

• Ability to manage complex and demanding workload.

• Experiences in community mobilization in support of agriculture and economic strengthening programs.

• Knowledge and learning ability to integrate gender issues in agriculture and livelihood interventions.

• Strong written and oral communication skills, as well as the proven ability to work collaboratively with many organizations and stakeholders. Experience working with private sector, government agencies and beneficiaries on livelihoods programs.

• An understanding and commitment to Save the Children values

• Computer, communication, team work and interpersonal skills.

• Able to spoken and written in English languages.

Knowledge of local language is mandatory.

How to Apply

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

Use the below link to apply:  

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