Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Supervisor at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Action Against Hunger | ACF International is an international humanitarian organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger.

Action Against Hunger is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Supervisor

Location: Damaturu, Yobe

Job Description:
The Food Security Livelihoods (FSL) Supervisor will primarily be responsible for directly managing field assistants implementing livelihood activities of the Livelihood sub sector of the Humanitarian multi-sectorial rapid response mechanism (RRM) program in Yobe state, Nigeria implemented by ACF and funded by USAID. Livelihood restoration sub sector aims to protect and restore livelihoods of people affected by insurgency in Yobe State through the replacement or rehabilitation of pre-existing livelihood assets and inputs, through cash based interventions and the capacity building to improve skills or production in pre-existing livelihood assets.

Summary of Key Objectives:

• Provide support to the FSL Deputy Program Manager to implement the program successfully, harmonizing and developing technical approach, and ensuring that the technical standards, guidelines and methodologies developed are applied.
• Supervise field project team within food security & livelihoods sub sector to ensure compliance, technical quality and coherence in all FSL interventions.
• Liaise with the CBI officer to ensure tracking and reporting of technical activities under Livelihood subsector.
• Participate in technical recruitment and training of the project field team.
• Provide support to FSL DPM and RRM Specialist to implement FSL strategy, and make recommendations for improving the project according to activity results.

Qualifications & Essential Skills:

• Degree in a food security related field e.g. Agronomics, Agriculture, Animal health, Agricultural engineering, Development Studies e.t.c
• Capacity to supervise a team
• Professional, good organizational capacity, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
• Three years relevant work experience
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
• Fluency in Hausa and English
• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy

Preferred

• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)
• Previous team management and activity planning experience
• Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy
• Previous experience with ACF
• Previous donor programming experience (e.g. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA)
• Analytical capacity

Application Closing Date:
Sunday, 14th September 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV together with their Cover Letter as an email attachment to the following email address to: [email protected] Applicants should indicate in the subject title of their forwarding mail, the title of the position they are applying for.

Note: Please do not attach your certificates to the application email. Any application received after Sunday, 14th September 2014 will not be considered.