Livelihood Officer at Chabash Development and Health Initiative (CDHI)

Chabash development and Health Initiative (CDHI) is a non-governmental organization dully registered with Nigerian government through corporate affairs commission and also is working closely with SEMA/NEMA Borno state chapter and the Borno state humanitarian response committee. Existence since March 2016, CDHI focus on improving the quality of life of vulnerable population across communities in the north eastern Nigeria. CDHI operates both in emergency and developmental context and have its programme principally rooted in identifying gaps that affects population or increases vulnerability of population and bringing those gaps through resource base planning and implementation. CDHI invest in Girls, Women, Children and all vulnerable group and communities especially those affected by emergencies. We have focus on promotion of girl child education, gender based violence and women empowerment as well as improving women efficacy on appropriate maternal and child care practices through promotion of nutrition education, and appropriate practices within communities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Livelihood Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Reports to: FSL Manager
Supervises: Food Security & Livelihood Assistant

Job Summary

• The Livelihood Officer will provide technical and programmatic support to crisis-affected families and communities to design and implement sustainable, community-based livelihood initiatives.
• The role focuses on promoting employment opportunities, enhancing vocational skills, and supporting income-generating activities to reduce vulnerabilities and build resilience.
• The successful candidate will work closely with caregivers, youth, and young adults to strengthen their livelihood capacity, enabling sustainable income generation and self-reliance even in emergency contexts.
• Priority will be given to interventions that deliver immediate or short-term improvements in household socio-economic well-being, while laying the foundation for longer-term recovery and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• The livelihood officer will give Priority attention to interventions that would have immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic wellbeing, aiming to reduce their vulnerability; e.g. access to start-up support for job creation, access to low-interest loans for micro-business development, individual skills training, targeted vocational or entrepreneurship training, job placement, internship, business expansion support, etc.
• Support families to identify ‘gaps’ in attaining self-reliance while linking it to the keys to self-reliance based on the development needs of each child within their care
• Support families to establish set goals, milestones with timelines and develop actionable plans to achieve the defined set goals to address the identified gaps
• Ensure that the organization keeps its commitments, in terms of support services committed to in the FDPs action plans;
• Empower families to have improved household income to actively support the development of their children and be self-reliant
• Support young adults and caregivers in setting up viable small-medium scale businesses with good business plans and link them to other funding sources for business scaling-up and expansion
• Implement skills-based innovative sustainable livelihood community initiatives that have a direct and immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic activities, aiming to reduce the family’s vulnerability and increase their chances of being self-reliant
• Identify weaknesses and strengths in the livelihoods activities and map the best way forward to enhance strengths and mitigate adverse impacts or weaknesses;
• Ensure gatekeeping and case management guidelines are followed in providing specifically tailored interventions targeted at supporting families to attain self-reliance
• Conduct activities in a community- and rights-based, participatory manner, maintaining an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD), and conflict-sensitive approach for community engagement
• Ensure timely and quality progress and financial reporting by partners in line with agreed templates and schedules
• Monitor programme implementation of partners (contractors, consultants, grantees) in accordance with agreements, work plans, deliverables, and timelines
• Carry out regular reviews of the situation of the families and the support provided to them by the programme
• Contribute to the realization of sustainable income generation for families to provide quality care and protection for their children

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Agriculture, Business Administration, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3-year experience in emergency response programming and working with vulnerable populations.
• Knowledge of market systems development, micro-enterprise, and vocational training approaches.
• Familiarity with donor-funded projects and humanitarian standards.
• Strong project design, implementation, and monitoring skills.
• Excellent facilitation, training, and community mobilization abilities.
• Competence in conducting needs assessments and market analysis.
• Good communication, negotiation, and partnership-building skills.
• Ability to manage data, prepare reports, and ensure accountability.
• Computer literacy (MS Office, data collection/analysis tools).
• Commitment to humanitarian principles, child safeguarding, and protection standards.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and analytical thinking.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-sectoral team.
• High cultural sensitivity, empathy, and inclusiveness.
• Flexibility, resilience, and capacity to adapt to rapidly changing emergency contexts

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within Chabash Development and Health Initiative and amongst beneficiaries served by Chabash Development and Health Initiative.
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time by supervisors.

Compliance & Ethics: 

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout Chabash Development and Health Initiative.
• As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of Chabash Development and Health Initiatives’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. 
• Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. 

Core Competencies:

• Analytical and critical thinking
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Strong ethical standards and data confidentiality
• Problem-solving and adaptive learning
• Commitment to community participation and inclusion

Others:

• No individual is expected to pay any amount or offer any form of favor to secure a position or contract with CDHI. Any such act is strictly prohibited and should be avoided.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Women are strongly encouraged to Apply.