Action Africa Help International
(AAH-I) is an African-led, regional organisation, working in East and Southern
Africa to improve the quality of life in livelihood challenged communities.
AAH-I has country programmes in Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, and
Zambia.
More recently, it has expanded its
activities to work with other marginalised communities, including pastoralist
communities and communities in urban slums.
With the current growth in AAH-I and
to facilitate the implementation of our 2014-2018 strategy, we wish to recruit
for the following positions in January 2015:
Job Title: Agriculture Project Officer,
AAH Kenya
Department / Section: Livelihoods
Reports to: Livelihoods Co-ordinator
Staff reporting to this post: Incentive Workers
Technical Dotted-Line link to: Co-operatives Finance Officer
Liaises with: Project Manager, Program Officer, Finance Officer,
UNHCR and other Partners on ground
Duty Station: Kakuma Refugee Camp, AAH-Kenya
Purpose of the Role: To
give oversight for all agricultural livelihoods activities and provide advisory
services on design and implementation of the UNHCR/AAHI Livelihood Programme.
In close cooperation with the
Livelihoods Co-ordinator, the Agriculture Project Officer will be responsible
for facilitating, organizing and supporting program activities including
capacity building, relationship building, partnership and regular monitoring
and evaluation.
Duties & Responsibilities
Duties & Responsibilities
- Be the matter expert, ensuring that
agricultural interventions are effective, productive and profitable for
the target PoC.
- Be responsible for hiring the services of a
water expert, who will advise and support the PoC involved in agriculture
to sustainably harvest, store and use water for their irrigation
activities.
- Ensure that the agriculture activities are
scaled up and run as a business, thereby providing profits for the target
PoC.
- Be responsible for identification of
knowledge, attitude and practice gaps among target PoC and ensure a
capacity building program is implemented to build PoC capacity to use
modern farming methods.
- Ensure that a pilot greenhouse is developed
and used to train identified PoC on modern agriculture practices.
- Support the PoC to manage and run the
greenhouse under a Cooperative, ensuring that the greenhouse is profitable
and sustainably managed.
- Assist in ensuring that the livelihoods
interventions are effective in terms of creating self-reliance in the PoC
mind set and that activities undertaken are profitable and sustainable in
the life of PoC.
- Keep the Livelihoods Co-ordinator (LC)
informed on progress of the various initiatives, monitoring their progress
and ensuring that they remain relevant and appreciated by the beneficiaries.
- Be directly involved in the implementation of
proposed initiatives.
a) Assist in proper collection,
storage and dissemination of data on PoC economic activities, clearly
identifying gaps and instituting interventions to fill the gaps in PoC
knowledge, attitude and practice in livelihoods and self-reliance.
b) Assist in developing and
supervising the implementation of a capacity building program to meet the
identified PoC gaps.
Expected Outcomes
Expected Outcomes
- Conceptualization, innovation, planning and
management of the livelihood project as well as the transfer of knowledge
and skills.
- Guide and supervise Incentive Workers in
identifying training needs and providing on the job training.
- Prepare the necessary reports as per UNHCR
guidelines and handle reporting requirement in a timely manner.
- Work closely with the Livelihoods Co-ordinator
and the Cooperatives Project officer on material and strategies to support
the programme.
- Provide information and support to the
Incentive Workers.
- Monthly work (action) plans for the program,
ensuring objectives and targets are achieved.
- Support the Livelihood Program staff in the
development of project documentation including marketing materials such as
success stories, case studies, human interest pieces, and the like that
can effectively represent the project to external audiences
- Provide technical assistance to the PoC and
Program staff regarding project management practices, organizational
management, financial accountability, Monitoring & Evaluation
practices, or thematic topics related to agricultural livelihoods
- Monitor activities of the PoC, communicating
project progress to appropriate Program staff
- Support the lively hood team in preparing
reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly & annual) materials
- Work with Livelihood program team to develop
and manage a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan
- Perform any other functions deemed necessary
or as delegated by the supervisor in order to meet the level of services
in the organization
Minimum Personal Specifications
Minimum Professional Qualifications
Required
- University degree preferrably in Agricultural
Economics, Agro-Enterprise, Rural Development, or a closely related field.
Minimum Relevant Experience Required
- Minimum of three years’ work experience in
development programs, with a heavy focus on rural, community-based
programming and agriculture.
- Demonstrated capacities to establish and
maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with donors,
government officials, local organizations, communities and other
stakeholders
- Demonstrated strengths in relationship
management; able to work with diverse groups of people in multicultural,
team-oriented environment;
- Skilled in influencing and obtaining
cooperation of individuals;
Desirable Skills
- UNHCR Field experience.
- Knowledge and exposure to the social and
cultural values of the region concerned.
- Proficiency in local language(s).
- Strong cross-cultural skills and experience
working with people from different ethnic/cultural backgrounds
- Proven ability to multi-task and meet
deadlines
- Proven ability to develop proposals and write
reports meeting donor requirements
Additional Skills & Competences
- Communicational skills (written and spoken)
- Organisational and managerial skills
- ICT speciality (email, Spread-sheets, MS-word,
Databases, job-related software, etc.)
- Team-work and participation
- Level of self-supervision and ability to take
initiative
- Degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Technical side of the job (numeracy,
report-writing, critical thinking, leadership, etc.)
- INGO experience and understanding of
humanitarian sector
- Commitment to and understanding of AAH-I’s
vision, mission, and values.
Application Instructions
Interested candidates should email application letters and CVs (with 3 referees) addressed to recruitke@actionafricahelp.org to be received by Monday, 5th January, 2015 at 5:00 pm.
Interested candidates should email application letters and CVs (with 3 referees) addressed to recruitke@actionafricahelp.org to be received by Monday, 5th January, 2015 at 5:00 pm.
The email Subject Line must show the
job title of the position applied for.
AAH-I is an equal-opportunity
employer.
Only those selected for the
interviews will be contacted.