Livelihood Assistant at Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD) Full Time NEW

Job Title: Livelihood Assistant

Location: Yola, Adamawa
Job type: Full time

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 Closing Date
Not Specified.

• 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