Project Officer-Resilience-Luuq

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Project Officer- Resilience-Luuq

The Role Summary:

The Project Officer– Resilience will support the effective implementation of the BMZ-TDA Project in Luuq focusing on Food and Nutrition Security and Climate-resilient Livelihoods for vulnerable Agro-pastoral and IDP communities. The role will Coordinate Climate-Smart

Agriculture, Farmer Field Schools, irrigation, livelihood diversification, savings groups, market linkages, early warning and disaster risk reduction, while supporting peacebuilding activities, including community dialogue, social cohesion and inclusive local governance. The Officer will work with communities, government institutions and partners to ensure inclusive, timely and quality implementation, monitor results and comply with approved plans, budgets, donor requirements and World Vision standards.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Facilitate timely, accountable project planning and implementation

With guidance from project Manager and TS, Support development and implementation of Detailed

Implementation Plans (DIPs), procurement plans, quarterly Cashflow, activity schedules, and

updating ITT and log frames

Coordinate implementation of food security, nutrition, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction,

peacebuilding, governance, and protection activities in the target locations.

Promote awareness of project deliverables for accountability purposes, mobilize

communities, enhance community engagements and facilitate participatory planning processes.

Prepare cash projections and requisitions to facilitate project implementation while

keeping accurate records for

accountability purposes.

Support establishment and strengthening of Farmer Field Schools, Savings Groups,

Community based disaster Risk Management Committees, community-based child Protection

Committees, district Peace Committees, and Women and Girls Safe Space structures.

Guide sites selections, ensure transparent beneficiary targeting and selection process,

beneficiary’s registration, and verification processes, promoting gender sensitivity, conflict

sensitivity and vulnerability sensitivity allocation of

resources.

Facilitate distribution of agricultural inputs, livelihood assets, vocational support

packages, and project materials.

Ensure interventions are conflict-sensitive, gender-responsive, disability-inclusive,

and aligned with Do-No-Harm principles.

Coordinate and monitor Livelihoods/resilience/economic development activities and

distribution of project supplies, promoting transparency and accountability;

Logistic planning for staff and project supplies/materials

2. Strengthen Community Resilience, Capacity Building and mentoring of communities and local

partners.

Identify, develop, contextualize (translations, pictorial design, etc.), Organize and

facilitate training to community groups and partners on Economic Development;

✓ Local Value Chain development,

✓ Vocational Skills

✓ Business development skills.

✓ Savings Groups, saving groups awareness and formation saving

✓ Update the Savings groups information on the Saving online system on monthly and quarterly

basis

✓ Generate Community Savings reports from the system & farming as a business, (FABS),

✓ Apprenticeship, social protection, entrepreneurship,

✓ Financial Literacy

✓ Develop capacity building plans, providing regular mentoring of community and partners on new

skills;

✓ Monitor, measure and report uptake of new skills and abilities with communities and partners;

✓ Identify economic Development training needs and Opportunities and make recommendations to

TS/PM

✓ Train key community groups and committees across sectors on Economic Development eg DRR

committees, Water point Management committees, CBAHWs, CNWs Build capacity of partner staff on

Economic Development

Organize and facilitate training for community groups, government counterparts, and local

partners.

Build capacities of Farmer Field Schools, producer groups, savings groups,

community health workers, DRM committees, peace committees, and protection structures.

Support vocational skills development, entrepreneurship training, financial literacy,

business planning, and market linkage initiatives.

Deliver awareness sessions on climate-smart agriculture, nutrition, gender equality,

safeguarding, conflict prevention, and disaster preparedness.

Mentor community structures to progressively assume leadership and management

responsibilities.

3. Promote Nutrition Security and Climate-Resilient Livelihoods

Support implementation of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions across the target

locations.

Coordinate establishment of household nutrition gardens and climate-smart agriculture

demonstrations by training communities on sack gardening preparation, land preparation, pest

management skills.

Facilitate training of Community Health Workers and Mother-to-Mother Support Groups

on community health education, behavioral change, dietary and nutrition rich food, Muac

screening, Infant and young children feeding (IYCF), breast feeding, Community referrals and

malnutrition detection.

Support dissemination of early warning information and anticipatory action messages.

Strengthen linkages between communities, extension services, and local markets.

Monitor adoption of improved agricultural, livestock, and livelihood practices.

4. Foster external engagement to promote awareness of the program, support fund-raising

efforts, and facilitate coordination.

Participate in external engagement with the government, community, and coordination

mechanisms:

Participate in cluster coordination mechanisms;

Update cluster reporting tools on a regular basis (e.g. 4Ws);

Coordinate organizations participation in cluster/government organized assessments;

Take leadership roles when possible;

Collaborate with other WV sectors, government entities, UN & NGO- fostering linkages in

support of sustainability and coordination of project activities (e.g. extension services,

marketing facilities, credit mechanisms);

With the assistance of Communications department, develop marketing and promotional

materials to increase awareness of field level programs for fund-raising and profile enhancing

purposes;

5. Monitoring, Reporting and Learning

Conduct regular field monitoring visits and quality assurance checks.

Collect, verify, and report project performance data.

Support assessments, baseline studies, surveys, and evaluations.

Document success stories, lessons learned, and best practices.

Contribute to monthly, quarterly, annual, donor, and management reports.

Track project indicators and ensure compliance with MEAL requirements.

6. Support Peacebuilding, Social Cohesion and Inclusive Governance

Facilitate community dialogues, mediation initiatives, and social cohesion activities.

Support strengthening of community feedback, grievance, and accountability mechanisms.

Engage local leaders, government representatives, women, youth, IDPs, and minority

groups in inclusive decision- making processes.

Coordinate Citizen Voice and Action initiatives and governance strengthening activities

Promote peaceful resource sharing and conflict-sensitive programming.

7. Promote accountability, compliance and good stewardship

Ensure and promote awareness and implementation of WV policies and procedures to staff

members and partners

Promote awareness and monitor compliance with donor and suppor