The Sr. Livelihood and Field assistant is responsible for implementing and supervising seasonal and livelihood projects in the field on a daily basis activity, liaising with relevant stakeholders, beneficiary’s registration, selection, and distribution items, and monitoring the implementation and livelihood beneficiaries and activities of Seasonal projects under RAMADAN and SACRIFICE projects. And also, to be involved as per needs for income-generating/ regeneration activities for orphans and their caregivers under the ORPHAN project.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- Livelihood Activities:
- The Sr. livelihood assistant is responsible for preparing, implementing, leading, and monitoring the activities under Seasonal projects in the field on a daily basis, liaising with relevant stakeholders, beneficiaries’ registration, selection, distributions, and monitoring.
- Lead in building the technical capacity of the livelihood beneficiaries.
- Lead market assessment and finalize the distribution planning and organizing together with livelihood and field assistant and beneficiaries.
- Lead in organizing training for business owners and farmers.
- Ensure appropriate selection of project beneficiaries by reviewing beneficiary assessment data and comparing them to SIF’s vulnerability criteria, and by conducting interviews, registering, and profiling applicants using specific criteria.
- Support SIF beneficiaries by facilitating orientation meetings, business training, and/or one-to-one counselling sessions as necessary.
- Travel to project sites on a regular basis to monitor individuals who have received SIF livelihoods assistance under the seasonal projects, ensure that activities are being carried out in accordance with livelihoods guidelines and project requirements, and provide guidance to the senior project officer in order to make necessary improvements or changes to seasonal projects.
- Ensure that all distributions are managed and monitored with quality planning and execution to ensure beneficiaries safety, respect and dignity.
- Organize and conduct satisfaction and feedback surveys/ post distribution monitoringin order to improve future seasonal projects.
- In coordination with the senior projects officer, coordinate with the relevant government authorities, business associations, and private sector companies to implement SIF`s seasonal projects.
- Provide verbal and written feedback to supervisor on progress, lessons learned, achievements and gaps, issues and problems.
- Conducting site/home visits for all areas of intervention.
- Field Activities:
- lead in gathering and reporting distribution figures/information, data collection, surveys, and assessments such as market assessment and vulnerability assessments, and other kinds of assessment as needed and assist in analysing them.
- Lead needs identification exercises through participatory needs assessments.
- Ensure timely implementation of project activities, especially seasonal distributions.
- Lead in planning and implementing distributions and other program activities.
- Submit reports on distribution/activities results, challenges faced, and lessons learned.
- Ensure proper handling and movement of any project documents, files, tools and SOPs.
- Ensure distributions/activities are conducted with full respect to the humanitarian principles and in an organized and dignified way.
- Assisting the SPO in the creation of any kind of project material, both technical and informational, in Arabic, and/or English.
- Assist the Senior Projects Officer in the implementation and lead of SIF’s seasonal projects activities as assigned.
- Keeping the Senior Projects officer up-to-date on trends, achieved results, planned activities, and problems.
- Liaise with local authority counterparts, partners, and populations of concern during implementation of seasonal projects.
- Managing and supervising staff and activities:
- Directly manage and supervise a livelihood and field assistant from the perspective of performance, technical support, guidance, and reporting.
- Develop and monitor work plans for the livelihood and field assistant in collaboration with the SPO.
- Identify capacity building needs and build the capacity of the livelihood and field assistant.
- Supervise and manage the activity implementation in Muthana.
- Report back to the SPO with updates and findings of the staff and activity management to ensure proper support.
- Monitoring, evaluation, and project reporting
- Write reports on field and office activities after each activity.
- Contribute to the writing of monthly SITREP and final reports.
- Report to the Senior projects officer on the progress of activities and potential difficulties monthly and per request.
- Preparation of success stories periodically.
- Monthly tracking Report of all program activities.
- Reporting Donors
- Participate in the preparation of the Livelihood and sessional projects activities and upload the reports to the SIF reporting platform.
- Ensure the quality and veracity of the information about beneficiaries.
- Update annually the information about the beneficiary’s profiles.
- In compliance with internal regulations and data protection protocols, keep accurate means of verification (MOVs) for project activities. Such as data, attendance sheets, activity reports, Beneficiary`s profiles, and agreements.
- Implementation of the SIF Child Safeguarding Policy
- Contribute to the mapping of child safeguarding risks for the sessional projects, the identification of measures to manage these risks, their implementation, and monitoring.
- Ensure that only essential data to the program is collected and managed in accordance with the principles of “Confidentiality” and “Best interests of the Child”.
- Any other tasks as assigned by the Senior Projects Officer
1- Education degree
University Degree in a related field (e.g. business management, economics, agriculture or social sciences from an accredited academic university).
2- Experience
· Minimum 4-6 years of relevant experience in, livelihood programs, distribution activities, and stabilization activities.
· Working experience with international organizations is an advantage.
3- Required Technical skills:
· Command of IT software packages (MS Office/EXCEL):
· Ability to generate assessment templates using Google Forms, KOBO, ODK
· Strong analytical and statistical skills/knowledge.
· High writing/reporting capacity.
· Detail Oriented.
· Good Organizational Capacity.
· Knowledge of gender aspects and Protection Mainstreaming.
· Very good ability to work in a team.
· Attention to detail.
· Empowering and building trust.
· Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
· Ability to work under pressure.
· Flexible with traveling.
· Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
· Ability to present clear and concise information.
· Ability to work effectively and harmoniously with colleagues from varied cultures and professional backgrounds.
· Have familiarity with child safeguarding policy.
· Ability to handle confidential matters.
· Fluency in Arabic, and English is Mandatory.
Please send your motivation letter and English CV by email to:
recruitment.iraq@secours-islamique.org
Clearly demonstrate how you meet the qualifications for this position, no later than February 26th, 2024
**CVs without the subject line “S. Livelihood & Field Assistant – Muthana” will not be considered.
The application CVs will be on a rolling basis.
Links to CVs will not be taken into consideration.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.