Project Officer Resilience

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Project Officer- Resilience-Baidoa

The Role Summary:

The Project Officer– Resilience will support the effective implementation of the BMZ-TDA Project in Baidoa focusing on Food and Nutrition Security and Climate-resilient Livelihoods for vulnerable Agro-pastoral and IDP communities. The role will Coordinate Climate-Smart

Agriculture, Farmer Field Schools, irrigation, livelihood diversification, savings groups, market linkages, early warning and disaster risk reduction, while supporting peacebuilding activities, including community dialogue, social cohesion and inclusive local governance. The Officer will work with communities, government institutions and partners to ensure inclusive, timely and quality implementation, monitor results and comply with approved plans, budgets, donor requirements and World Vision standards.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Facilitate timely, accountable project planning and implementation

• With guidance from project Manager and TS, Support development and implementation of Detailed

Implementation Plans (DIPs), procurement plans, quarterly Cashflow, activity schedules, and

updating ITT and log frames

• Coordinate implementation of food security, nutrition, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction,

peacebuilding, governance, and protection activities in the target locations.

• Promote awareness of project deliverables for accountability purposes, mobilize

communities, enhance community engagements and facilitate participatory planning processes.

• Prepare cash projections and requisitions to facilitate project implementation while

keeping accurate records for

accountability purposes.

• Support establishment and strengthening of Farmer Field Schools, Savings Groups,

Community based disaster Risk Management Committees, community-based child Protection

Committees, district Peace Committees, and Women and Girls Safe Space structures.

• Guide sites selections, ensure transparent beneficiary targeting and selection process,

beneficiary’s registration, and verification processes, promoting gender sensitivity, conflict

sensitivity and vulnerability sensitivity allocation of

resources.

• Facilitate distribution of agricultural inputs, livelihood assets, vocational support

packages, and project materials.

• Ensure interventions are conflict-sensitive, gender-responsive, disability-inclusive,

and aligned with Do-No-Harm principles.

• Coordinate and monitor Livelihoods/resilience/economic development activities and

distribution of project supplies, promoting transparency and accountability;

• Logistic planning for staff and project supplies/materials

2. Strengthen Community Resilience, Capacity Building and mentoring of communities and local

partners.

• Identify, develop, contextualize (translations, pictorial design, etc.), Organize and

facilitate training to community groups and partners on Economic Development;

✓ Local Value Chain development,

✓ Vocational Skills

✓ Business development skills.

✓ Savings Groups, saving groups awareness and formation saving

✓ Update the Savings groups information on the Saving online system on monthly and quarterly

basis

✓ Generate Community Savings reports from the system & farming as a business, (FABS),

✓ Apprenticeship, social protection, entrepreneurship,

✓ Financial Literacy

✓ Develop capacity building plans, providing regular mentoring of community and partners on new

skills;

✓ Monitor, measure and report uptake of new skills and abilities with communities and partners;

✓ Identify economic Development training needs and Opportunities and make recommendations to

TS/PM

✓ Train key community groups and committees across sectors on Economic Development eg DRR

committees, Water point Management committees, CBAHWs, CNWs Build capacity of partner staff on

Economic Development

• Organize and facilitate training for community groups, government counterparts, and local

partners.

• Build capacities of Farmer Field Schools, producer groups, savings groups,

community health workers, DRM committees, peace committees, and protection structures.

• Support vocational skills development, entrepreneurship training, financial literacy,

business planning, and market linkage initiatives.

• Deliver awareness sessions on climate-smart agriculture, nutrition, gender equality,

safeguarding, conflict prevention, and disaster preparedness.

• Mentor community structures to progressively assume leadership and management

responsibilities.

3. Promote Nutrition Security and Climate-Resilient Livelihoods

• Support implementation of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions across the target

locations.

• Coordinate establishment of household nutrition gardens and climate-smart agriculture

demonstrations by training communities on sack gardening preparation, land preparation, pest

management skills.

• Facilitate training of Community Health Workers and Mother-to-Mother Support Groups

on community health education, behavioral change, dietary and nutrition rich food, Muac

screening, Infant and young children feeding (IYCF), breast feeding, Community referrals and

malnutrition detection.

• Support dissemination of early warning information and anticipatory action messages.

• Strengthen linkages between communities, extension services, and local markets.

• Monitor adoption of improved agricultural, livestock, and livelihood practices.

4. Foster external engagement to promote awareness of the program, support fund-raising

efforts, and facilitate coordination.

• Participate in external engagement with the government, community, and coordination

mechanisms:

• Participate in cluster coordination mechanisms;

• Update cluster reporting tools on a regular basis (e.g. 4Ws);

• Coordinate organizations participation in cluster/government organized assessments;

• Take leadership roles when possible;

• Collaborate with other WV sectors, government entities, UN & NGO- fostering linkages in

support of sustainability and coordination of project activities (e.g. extension services,

marketing facilities, credit mechanisms);

• With the assistance of Communications department, develop marketing and promotional

materials to increase awareness of field level programs for fund-raising and profile enhancing

purposes;

5. Monitoring, Reporting and Learning

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits and quality assurance checks.

• Collect, verify, and report project performance data.

• Support assessments, baseline studies, surveys, and evaluations.

• Document success stories, lessons learned, and best practices.

• Contribute to monthly, quarterly, annual, donor, and management reports.

• Track project indicators and ensure compliance with MEAL requirements.

6. Support Peacebuilding, Social Cohesion and Inclusive Governance

• Facilitate community dialogues, mediation initiatives, and social cohesion activities.

• Support strengthening of community feedback, grievance, and accountability mechanisms.

• Engage local leaders, government representatives, women, youth, IDPs, and minority

groups in inclusive decision- making processes.

• Coordinate Citizen Voice and Action initiatives and governance strengthening activities

• Promote peaceful resource sharing and conflict-sensitive programming.

7. Promote accountability, compliance and good stewardship

• Ensure and promote awareness and implementation of WV policies and procedures to staff

members and partners

• Promote awareness and monitor compliance with donor and support office requirements;

• Ensure value for money in regards to all transaction involving World Vision resources

• Ensure quality workmanship by contractors and consultants engaged by WV

• Responsible for interpretation of Information provision pamphlets and training materials into

local language.

• Promote accountability to affected populations through community feedback mechanisms.

• Uphold World Vision safeguarding, child protection, and PSEA standards.

• Ensure all project activities are implemented safely and ethically.

• Immediately report safeguarding concerns through established channels.

• Promote inclusion, dignity, confidentiality, and protection of vulnerable populations.

8. Safeguarding

• The position holder must adhere to strict child and adult safeguarding policies and

protection principles integrated into their daily duties and ensure they strictly support

humanitarian protection specific to their sector.

• Ensure training of community, religious, political, and traditional leaders in child

safeguarding and protection, early conflict triggers, response, and potential mitigatory

strategies.

• Adhere to the strict behavior protocol that is signed on onboarding after the protection and

safeguarding induction.

• Report safeguarding allegations and incidents to the Ethics point and to all other provided

channels.

• Ensuring that the project is implemented with minimum risk to staff safety and welfare.

• Create a safeguarding environment in your project and support your staff/team to report and

make use of the WVS (SIPP)safeguarding incident management plan and ensure you and your

staff utilize the Checklist for intake of information for GBV incidents to refer incidents

for redress.

Essentials:

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields; Agriculture, Rural Development, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, Disaster Risk Management, Community Development, Development Studies, Social Sciences or any another relevant field from a recognized university.

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in implementing resilience, food security, livelihoods,

climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction or community development programmes.

• Experience working with NGOs, INGOs, local authorities, and community-based structures.

• Experience managing donor-funded projects, preferably, GFFO and BMZ-funded projects.

• Demonstrated experience in implementing community-based resilience programmes, including climate change adaptation, disaster preparedness, early warning systems, natural resource management, livelihood strengthening, community mobilization, capacity strengthening, and stakeholder engagement.

• Experience in implementing climate-resilient agriculture and livelihood interventions, including irrigation development, agricultural production, livestock support,

farmer groups, savings groups and market linkages.

• Experience working with agro-pastoralist, farming, IDP and host communities in drought- and flood-affected or conflict-affected areas of Somalia is highly desirable.

• Demonstrated experience in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM), early warning, anticipatory action and preparedness for droughts and floods.

• Understanding of community accountability mechanisms, safeguarding, PSEA, gender equality, disability inclusion and conflict-sensitive programming.

• Demonstrated practical experience in implementing climate-smart agriculture interventions,

including Farmer Field Schools (FFS), Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), crop production,

improved seed systems and farmer capacity strengthening.

• Practical experience in livelihood diversification and economic empowerment

activities, including Savings for Transformation (S4T)/VSLA groups, youth enterprises, beekeeping, fodder production, vocational training and business development services.

• Computer literacy in MS Word, MS Excel, Power point and Technical Drawing Packages

• Good business-oriented verbal, visual, and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and network with a wide range of

stakeholders to facilitate mutually satisfactory outcomes.

• Strong analytical, managerial, leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Positive collaboration and facilitation skills, along with leadership of large and diverse teams.

• Proven experience in proposal writing and project reporting

Working Environment

• Office-based in Baidoa, South West State with domestic travel required from time to time.

World Vision adheres to strict child and adult safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks which will include criminal background checks. They will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Academic certificates will be verified with the issuing institution.

Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.

NB: When applying only attach your merged application letter and CV

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only