Food Security and Livelihood Coordinator: Action Against Hunger-USA Jobs in Kenya

_____________________________________________________________________________________ The mission of Action Against Hunger is to save lives by eliminating hunger through the prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and after emergency situations of conflict, war and natural disaster.

Closing date: 15 Feb 2010

Location: Kenya - Nairobi

Job Objectives:
· To ensure implementation of food security and livelihoods activities according to ACF and donor standards and guidelines
· To ensure internal and external coordination
· To strengthen FSL context analysis in areas of intervention
Objectives and Activities:
· To support the FSL team to implement FSL activities
· To facilitate program implementation with regular and proactive exchanges with the FSL PMs & visits to FSL programmes
· To ensure high technical quality of FSL programme activities
· To facilitate the development and implementation of M&E tools and mechanisms
· To facilitate the preparation of proposals, procurement planning, activities planning, expenditures forecast, etc.
· To facilitate reporting and documentation of program activities to ACF and donors standards
· To ensure internal coordination for integrated programming
· To support the FSL PMs to coordinate with the Nut and Wash teams
· To facilitate integrated program definition, planning and implementation together with Nutrition and Wash coordinators
· To provide a permanent link on capital level to ensure coordination and integration in discussions and initiatives
· To facilitate integrated context analysis for ACF
· To facilitate the establishment of ongoing integrated context analysis, together with Nut, Wash, FSL team
· To review historic, internal and external information for the ACF areas of intervention
· To support the analysis and understanding of the underlying causes of malnutrition, together with Nut, Wash, Fsl team
· To ensure continuous nutrition beneficiary profiling analysis together with Nut and Fsl team
· To ensure documentation of the facilitated analysis
· To support development and implementation of integrated Nut/ Fsl surveillance system
· To consolidate and contribute to analysis and monthly surveillance reports, together with the surveillance officer
· To use the ACF analysis for external representation and positioning of ACF, and contribution to external forums and FSL groups.
· To continuously monitor and analysis the humanitarian context and FSL needs in the country and recommend for new interventions.
· To ensure external coordination and representation with other FSL stakeholders
· To actively participate in national FSL coordination meetings with KFSSSG, MoA, NGOs, etc.
· To actively participate in the IPC Kenya working group
· To create links with various FSL partners working in Kenya.
· To contribute to representation and technical discussion needed for donors
· To facilitate advocacy to donors and other stakeholders in an informed and concise manner, as validated by HOM and HQ
· To actively participate in the national/regional working group, e.g. market prices

Number of staff to manage: 2 program managers (functional technical Management, PM are under direct management of Field co)

Kenya team composition:
· 1 Head of Mission (HOM)
· 3 Technical Coordinators (Wash, FSL, CMN)
· 1 Financial Controller
· 1 Logistics Coordinator
· 1 Field Coordinators
· Program Managers 2 wash, 2 FS, 2 nut, 1 PHP, 1 capacity building, 1 survey/surveillance
· National Staff around 100

Remarks / Observations

An emphasis of the post is to develop a good network and capitalize on internal and external experiences.FSL coordinator will concentrate more on coordination than program management.The FSL Co is mainly based in Nairobi with regular visits to the operational bases.A large part of the external and internal coordination will remain in Nairobi and Isiolo/Tana River and possibly neighbouring country (Ethiopia/ Uganda) thus the post requires a certain level of field travel.

History of the Mission

· See ACF-USA Kenya Mission Document : ACF Kenya Overview (To be issued by HQ)
· See Welcome to the Kenya Mission Document (To be issued by HQ)
· See draft 2010-2012 country strategy

Qualifications:

Education / specific degree / special skills:
· Min. master’s degree in agriculture, socio-economics, or related studies.
· At least 5 years of experience in humanitarian FSL work
· Excellent writing and analytical skills.
· Good management and representation competencies.
· Experience with agro-pastoral and livelihoods programming.
· Experience with programming in drought prone areas and disaster risk reduction activities
· Experience in developing world context.
· Familiarity with ACF and acceptance of ACF’s principles.
· Familiarity with donors and donor procedures helpful.
· Humanitarian field experience requested: Yes

Languages

· French: No
· English: Yes Spanish: No Other: Kiswahili would be an advantage

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