NRC Livelihoods and Food Security Officer Jobs Nigeria 2024 – UN Jobs
NRC Livelihoods and Food Security Officer Jobs 2024: Norwegian Refugee Council has published new Job vacancy Recruitment in Jos, Nigeria. You can apply to the following position before the Application deadline and the Application deadline is July 12th, 2024. For more jobs visit (www.UNJobsCareer.Org) or Join our Telegram Channel for Latest Recruitments updates.
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Quick Overview
- Job Identification: 15290
- Job Category: Livelihood and Food Security
- Duty Station; Jos
- Country: Nigeria
- Grade Level: Grade 5
- Duration of contract: 12 months.
- Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Apply Before: 12/07/2024
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Implement delegated LFS project portfolio according to plan of action
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
- Ensure proper filing of documents
- Promote and share ideas for technical improvement
- Ensure that procurement development and distribution of project materials and equipment are timely and accordance with procedures.
- Involve and inform communities and community leaders about NRC activities and policy
- Explore and facilitate introduction of new technology, method and approaches in order to improve the quality of the activities.
- Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
- Coordinate the food security and livelihoods activities according to strategy, proposals, budgets and plans.
- Ensure adherence to NRC policies and donor requirements.
- Provision of the annual operational plans into monthly and quarterly implementation plans.
- Coordinate with relevant partners working in the same implementation area and to avoid overlaps.
- Supervise, train and develop team of food assistants.
- Prepare periodic progress report and other document as required.
- Conduct livelihood assessment to determine most viable income generating activities, crop and livestock farming, value chain addition and cash for work activities
- Responsible for coordinating with key stakeholders and registration of project beneficiaries.
- Coordinate with stakeholders and partners in training of project beneficiaries.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience from working as a Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery and or development context
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Good command and spoken English
- BSc, HND in Agronomy, Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension, Crop Science or related field
- Experience working as an Agricultural Extension Agent.
- Minimum of 3 year working experience in a related position.
- Work experience from the plateau context preferred
- Experience working as in livelihood and food Security humanitarian/recovery context.
- Proven experience in implementing agricultural support programs, income generation activities, Cash for work program and livestock production and management
- Good understanding of climate smart agriculture (CSA)
- Experience of implementing cash/voucher transfers, farming inputs distribution and monitoring of agricultural activities.
- Experience and understanding of Selection, planning and management (SPM) of income Generation Activities (IGAs) both farm and off farm
- Experience in beneficiary Skills training and distribution of conditional cash grants or small business start-up kits.
- Experiment from working in complex and volatile context.
- Able to speak fluent Hausa and English languages
- Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
- Ensure proper archiving/filling of project documents
- Highest standard of ethics and integrity
- Ability to work in insecure environments
- Good communication skills
- Ability to speak one additional local language preferred.
- Candidates from Plateau State preferred.
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