Livelihood Assistant at Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD)

Job Title: Livelihood Assistant

Role Purpose

• The post holder will support assessments to lead the implementation of economic empowerment interventions for vulnerable adolescent and youth in program implementation sites.
• Specifically, Labor Market Assessment (LMA) and Income-Generating Activities (IGA) assessment focusing on the market assessment at project sites.
• He/she will provide vocational training, entrepreneurship support for young adults and promote Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLAs). 

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the implementation of Livelihoods activities and administration of the teams across program field locations. 
• Develop activity work plans and manage day-to-day activity implementation. 
• Ensure that program implementation is responsive to community needs, meets targets, and is carried out in line with best practices. 
• Ensure that beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to vulnerability criteria. 
• Establish and maintain effective program reporting, and monitoring and evaluation systems (to track, analyze and report on results) for both internal and external use. 
• Integrate community approaches, protection mainstreaming, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate. 
• Ensure program filing system is in place, adheres to internal and donor regulation and filing is regularly maintained. 
• Coordinate with MEAL team to map, identify and register program participants. 
• Lead in the selection and registration of beneficiaries with support from MEAL team.
• Coordinate the sensitization and ensuring beneficiaries received necessary safeguarding support during project activities. 
• Facilitate training of beneficiaries on financial literacy, bookkeeping and smart saving practices. 
• Lead the market assessment to ascertain the most profitable skills in the intervention locations. 
• Coordinate post distribution monitoring with MEAL team. 
• Ensure effective community engagement to create enabling environment and ownership. 
• Submit monthly program update including success stories to the supervisor. 
• Identify emerging issues related to the livelihood program and make recommendation for further solution. 
• Working closely with the Livelihoods Advisor /project Manager and the project coordinator and/or other senior program staff, support timely program and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements. 
• With support from the Project Coordinator and/or other senior program staff, identify program supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan. 
• With support from the Accountability Lead ensure accountability is enforced in all project activities as well as ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design/implementation 
• With support from the community mobilization lead, ensure effective and efficient information sharing to relevant stakeholders and continuous program sensitization. 
• Work closely with partners and their staff to ensure project activities are implemented in time and within the stipulated quality. 

Qualifications and Experience

• Educational qualification: B.SC in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Economics or its equivalent in any related field of study.
• 3 years relevant experience of working in livelihoods, including report writing.  
• Previous experience of project management and implementation of livelihoods component of humanitarian and/or development projects. 
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability. 
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation. 
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports. 
• Excellent communication and strong influencing skills. 
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy. 
• A high level of written and spoken English. 
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances. 
• High level of communication in a local language related to working environment 
• Familiarity with inter sectoral integration of project interventions 
• Experience in gender mainstreaming and social protection programming. 

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is Not Specified. Qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Website:
Official Job Website: https://casfod.org/

Note

• No applications will be received at CASFOD office neither through any email address.
• CASFOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Women and Persons with Disability are highly encouraged to apply.
• Background and reference checks will be conducted, and ethics is part of annual performance appraisals.
• CASFOD will require applicants to self-declare prior issues of sexual or other misconduct, termination of past employment, criminal records, and concerns registered with government authorities regarding