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: Cooperatives Project Officer
Reports to: Livelihoods Co-ordinator
Staff reporting to this post: Community
Mobilisers
Technical Dotted-Line link to: Agriculture Project Officer
Liaises with: Project
Manager, Agriculture Officer, Finance Officer, UNHCR and other Partners on
ground
Duty Station: Kakuma Refugee Camp, AAH Kenya
Purpose of the Role: To develop cooperatives, bringing together PoC involved in specific livelihoods activities such as agriculture, tailoring, construction, small scale traders.
Duties & Responsibilities
Purpose of the Role: To develop cooperatives, bringing together PoC involved in specific livelihoods activities such as agriculture, tailoring, construction, small scale traders.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Mobilize, train and ensure proper
institutional structures are put in place to run the Cooperatives
effectively and profitably.
- Be responsible to ensure that the Cooperatives
act as channels for credit and loans for PoC producers as well as markets
for goods produced by member PoC.
- Liaise with UNHCR in the provision of inputs
to PoC to ensure that the processes used support self-reliance among PoC.
- Support members of the Cooperatives to
institute inclusive leadership and governance structures that not only
ensure optimum production but also support inclusiveness and cohesion
among PoC.
- Assist in supporting 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 cooperative initiatives, monitoring
their progress and ensuring that they remain relevant and appreciated by
the beneficiaries.
- Be directly involved in the implementation of
proposed initiatives.
- Ensure proper collection, storage and
dissemination of data on PoC cooperative activities, clearly identifying
gaps and instituting interventions to fill the gaps in PoC knowledge,
attitude and practice in livelihoods and self-reliance.
Expected Outcomes
- Conceptualization, innovation, planning and
management of the livelihood cooperative project as well as the transfer
of knowledge and skills.
- Guide and supervise Community Mobilisers 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 Agriculture Project officer on material and strategies to support
the programme.
- Provide information and support to the
Community Mobilizers.
- Monthly work (action) plans for the program,
ensuring objectives and targets are achieved.
- Provide technical assistance to the PoC and
Program staff regarding Cooperative project management practices,
organizational management, financial accountability, Monitoring &
Evaluation practices, or thematic topics related to agricultural
livelihoods
- Support the lively hood team in preparing
reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly & annual) materials
- Work in collaboration 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
Personal Specifications
Professional Qualifications Required
Professional Qualifications Required
- University degree preferred in Cooperative
Management, Agro-Enterprise, Rural Development, or a closely related
field.
Relevant Experience Required
- Minimum of three years’ work experience in
development programs, with a heavy focus on rural, community-based
programming and Cooperative set up and Management.
- 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;
Skills and Competence
- 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.
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.
