Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL) Officer at Oxfam Nigeria

Oxfam, one of the leading global development organizations, mobilizes the power of people against poverty. We are a diverse confederation of 17 strongly interconnected national affiliates working in over 90 countries, either directly, or with partners to enable transformational change, using a unique combination of long-term development, campaigning and humanitarian programs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL) Officer

Location: Damboa, Borno
Duration: Three (3) Months with possibility of extension

Job Purpose

• To implement food distributions and other food assistance projects in Damboa LGA

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• To support the implementation of food security/livelihoods programming, including cash transfers and market assessment.
• To support activities which includes holding community meetings and focus group discussions, promoting social mobilisation, beneficiary targeting process, and post-distribution monitoring, food security and livelihood assessment market prices surveillance monitoring, trader and money transfer assessment.
• To lead on community-level data collection and ensure adherence to work plan.
• Ensure that EFSVL is integrated with other programme teams, including water and sanitation engineering teams, and public health promotion teams.
• To apply gender-sensitive approaches to the community work and be comfortable to be involved in or lead community sensitisation and awareness sessions.
• Actively support to monitor the impact of our work on the people, supervising, monitoring and reporting on output indicators of the project.
• Implement accountability systems to ensure that communities engage in programme design and implementation, and use the Feedback and Complaints system.

Educational Qualification and Competence

• First degree in Sociology, Agriculture, Microenterprise development or its equivalent in any relevant discipline.
• At least three years of experience in appropriate community mobilisation. livelihoods, and/or cash programming in early recovery setting with national or International organizations.
• Proven ability to work creatively, innovatively, using owns initiative with limited direct supervision as well as working effectively as a team player.
• Knowledge and experience of baseline assessments, data gathering
• Proven assessment/analytical skills and the ability to contribute to written and verbal reports succinctly in English.

Application Closing Date
6th February, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application letter and Curriculum Vitae as one attachment to: [email protected] with the position title as the subject of their mail

Note

• Only applications sent in required format will be considered.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date