NGO Vacancy Announcement – ACTED
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ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach that is both global and local and adapted to each context.
ACTED would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following positions.
Position 1: Project Assistant
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Community mobilization for all project activities, e.g., farmers’ training or meetings and encourage active farmers’ participation.
- Support beneficiary mobilization, identification, registration, and verification activities
- Conduct Project awareness and community meetings at the beginning of the project in project-targeted communities.
- Supporting and promoting the participation of women, youth, and people with specific needs and marginalized groups in FSL Activities at the village level.
- Organize community public meetings and facilitate the formation of project committees at the community level.
- Assist project committees to Follow the selection criteria and identify project beneficiaries in the targeted communities.
- Responsible for the Beneficiary selection process, registration, and verifications.
- Involve in targeting and tracking distribution of agriculture inputs & Cash for Work (CFW) tools.
- Preparation of training material and training of project beneficiaries on Farmer’s Field Schools (FFS) on agricultural production.
- Conduct farmer’s training on Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs).
- Conduct visits to provide individual, contact farmers & group farmers with practical application of useful extension knowledge.
- Supervise ongoing project activities including Cash for Work (CFW) at the field level.
- Collect Post distribution monitoring monthly, market surveys, case studies, and most significant success stories.
- Supporting in developing work plans and providing any necessary job training and guides.
- Assess capacity-building needs and organize capacity-building events and processes.
- Ensuring that the CRM mechanism integrates different ways of collecting complaints and feedback, not only through desk but also through formal and informal meetings with the community leaders, outreach activities, etc.
- Lead transparent and accountable participatory targeting of project target groups and beneficiaries.
- Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of activities.
- Promoting and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, ACTED staff, partner agencies, casual laborers)
- Prepare and compile activity reports on a weekly or monthly basis and share them with the respective line manager.
- Supporting the line manager in devising weekly and long-term work plans for the project implementation, particularly information management activities
- Provide translation of various documents (e.g., reports, minutes, beneficiary lists, information signs) upon request
- Perform other duties as required by the relevant supervisor.
Job Requirements
Essential qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in food security, Agronomy, Extension Services, Agro-veterinary, Development studies, or any other related fields.
- Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in direct implementation of FSL interventions and working with subsistence farmers.
- Prior experience in community work, training, and coaching farmers, proven problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated experience in CASH management in an NGO/INGO is an advantage.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and be initiative.
- Good facilitation, analytical, planning, and report-writing skills
- Knowledge of agricultural-related issues and techniques.
- Experience and knowledge of working with INGOs in Agriculture/Livelihood programs.
- Proficient in MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Willing to extensively travel throughout the project areas.
Essential knowledge and skills:
- Extensive knowledge of Afar farmers’ context.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and team-playing skills.
- Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative.
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
- Understanding of gender, protection, and human rights.
- Commitment to promoting gender equality.
Preferred experience:
- Proficiency in English and Afar language, both oral and written.
- Experience, including leading/supervising subordinate staff, organizing activities, and report writing.
- Experience in training and capacity building of staff.
- Preferable experience in Farmer’s field schools and soil & water conservation.
- Knowledge of logistics and procurement processes.
Workplace: Afar
Deadline: April 21, 2023
Position 2: Food Security and Livelihood (FSL) Project Officer
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the implementation of all project activities to ensure the project is completed in a timely and accountable manner.
- In collaboration with Revive project manager and Community, leaders select the sites of Farmers Field School (FFS) communal demonstration plots.
- Maintain proper records and documentation related to FFS groups at the field level in respective villages.
- Participate in the design, and assessment of livelihood and food security components of the project activities.
- Identify the strategic locations for specific interventions (e.g., areas for the rainwater harvesting practices and establishment of vegetative barriers, gully rehabilitation/stream bank protection, and other soil and water conservation methods) for soil stabilization and minimization of soil erosion.
- Identify training needs of the field staff and farmers at various levels, conduct training, and document the trial’s outcome and farmer adoption levels.
- Coordinate ACTED Agriculture field activities with other partners, NGOs, local community, and relevant Government departments in line with THRIVE/REVIVE projects.
- Ensure ACTED’s participation in inter-agency livelihood coordination meetings and represent ACTED in National Agriculture Co-ordination meetings when needed.
- Take the lead on planning agricultural extension services targeting small-scale farmers within key agro-food value chains and local partners and extension services.
- Take a lead in the establishment and running of farmer field schools in coordination with relevant stakeholders to ensure the sustainability of the approaches.
- Conduct agriculture-related training for farmers to ensure effective productivity of appropriate information on GAP (soil management, water management, IPM, green compost production efficiency and safe use of pesticides and urea pest control, land-use efficiency, harvesting best storage practices, and Market linkages).
- Collaborating with the project team organizing field days and exposure visits among Farmers Field Schools (FFS) groups on demonstration and trial plots and updating the progress regularly.
- Conduct value chain and market assessment to identify potential farming groups for developing value chain and marketing projects.
- In collaboration with field staff, extension workers and target farmers conduct seasonal crop harvest assessment.
- Link farmer’s kitchen gardening and livestock beneficiaries to the local markets to generate income.
- Identification of the needs of farmers and the farming practices used and formulation of an available achievable strategy to improve agricultural production within the limited resources to farmers.
- Identify appropriate agricultural seed and small-scale agricultural tools relevant to the locality and target community in collaboration with farming comparatives and local authorities.
- Assess farmer innovation and acceptability of new Agriculture technologies and practices.
- To ensure all activities undertaken are appropriately documented (agreement/MOUs with relevant authorities, attendance sheets and training circular, beneficiary Registration lists, work plans, and accounts when relevant, etc.)
- Help in the development and updating of monthly Project Management Framework (PMF) sheets to ensure smooth tracking of the assigned projects.
- Coordinate with the field team and the MEAL department to prepare and implement project monitoring and evaluation plans.
- To budget and monitor project expenditures to ensure they are in line with ACTED and donor requirements.
- Liaise with the FLAT team in the field and area office to coordinate procurement and other needs for project implementation and organization base support.
- Protection Mainstreaming: promoting and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, ACTED staff, partner agencies, and casual laborers).
- Prepare/Compile the monthly, quarterly, and annual and Contribute to the preparation and collection of case studies to demonstrate program impact and share with the Revive Project Manager.
Any other tasks required by the line manager/ Thrive/Revive project manager
Job Requirements
Essential qualifications and experience:
- A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Rural Development, Agricultural Extension, NRM or related field
- A minimum of 3- 5 years of work experience in FSL and Agricultural relevant interventions.
- Proven experience in administration, including staff and financial management.
- Ability to work under difficult circumstances in remote locations with limited supervision.
- Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, or other computer-aided design packages, email/internet communication, etc.
- Good spoken and written skills in English and Afar Languages.
- Ability to frequently travel to the target communities in the districts.
Essential knowledge and skills:
- Fluency in English and Afar languages, both oral and written.
- Extensive knowledge of Afar farmer’s context
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and team-playing skills.
- Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative.
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
- Understanding of gender, protection, and human rights.
- Commitment to promoting gender equality.
Preferred experience:
- Managerial experience, including leading/supervising subordinate staff, organizing activities, and report writing.
- Experience in training and capacity-building of staff.
- Experience in FSL, including Introduction to FSL Training.
- Knowledge of logistics and procurement processes.
Workplace: Afar
Deadline: April 25, 2023
Position 3: CASH Project Officer
Duties and Responsibilities
Partner coordination
- Liaising and coordination with all humanitarian partners and stakeholders working in the sites
- Liaising and coordination with local authorities responsible for site administration
- Liaising with Sub National clusters (particularly Ethiopia Cash Working Group)
Financial Service Provider Monitoring
- Liaising with Project Manager, Area Coordinator and FSP in setting up agreement and cash distribution plan
- Supporting FSP in respecting distribution deadlines and guidelines
- Supporting FSP in beneficiaries registration and verification
Protection mainstreaming:
- Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of activities
- Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines
- Referring to and following up with protection partners on identification and addressing of cases of vulnerability within the camp
- Ensure that principles of data confidentiality are respected in information management activities and that sensitive data of beneficiaries are protected when stored or shared if strictly necessary
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Supporting AME team in beneficiary identification, registration and verification
- Supporting AME team in Post-Distribution monitoring exercise
- Project management and reporting
Planning, Implementing and Reporting:
- Supporting the line manager in devising weekly and long-term work plans for the project implementation, particularly or information management activities
- Attending regular staff coordination meetings
- Timely reporting on problems and challenges in the site to the line Manager
- Timely submission of weekly report, information products and updated databases as requested by the line manager
HR
- Commitment to continuous learning through trainings and timely identification of capacity-building needs and opportunities, in coordination with line Manager/TC/HR Dept.
- Supervise recruitment of enumerators when needed for data collection
- Train Enumerators
Transparency and Compliance:
- Ensuring compliance to ACTED internal procedures and donor procedures
- Accurate record keeping of project documentation, including photos and proper filing of meeting minutes, databases, attendance sheets, assessment reports/documents, review and updating of databases etc., in soft and hard copy
Others
- Provide translation of various documents (e.g. reports, minutes, beneficiary lists, information signs) upon request
- Perform any additional task as requested by the line Manager.
- Perform other tasks and responsibilities as requested.
Job Requirements
Qualifications/Skills Required
Essential qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Development studies, Social science or other relevant discipline
- 3-4 years CASH management experience in Donor Funded Projects
- Demonstrated experience in CASH management in an NGO/INGO is highly preferable.
- Able to manage a high workload and meet tight deadlines
- Good numerical, report writing and administration skills; committed to consultative and servant-minded leadership; able to set clear objectives for staff and to delegate; able to enforce procedures
- Good understanding of SPHERE and other international standards.
- Knowledge of Somali language is required
- Knowledge and understanding of humanitarian standards
- Ability to train, mobilize, and manage national staff
- Flexibility and ability to multi-task under pressure
- Proven ability to work creatively and independently both in the field and in the office;
- Good inter-personal skills, commitment and motivation.
Workplace: Afar
Deadline: April 25, 2023
Position 4: Logistics Assistant
Job Requirements:
- Degree/Higher Diploma preferably in Business Administration or related field and two years experience in working with International NGOs in the similar level.
- Motivated and create in approaches to work.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective and working relationships
- Excellent communication skills, personable and articulate
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Local Language is a mandatory requirement
- Strong team player of high integrity, pleasant personality, ability to work under least supervision and meet strict deadlines.
- Computer literate and with excellent IT Knowledge.
- Demonstrated experience in overall responsibility and accountability for the logistical and administration management of an organization;
- Good public Relations with strong negotiation skills.
Workplace: Afar
Deadline: April 25, 2023
How to Apply
Application Procedure:
Qualified national persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter as a single document i.e. with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work related referees and contacts to ethiopia.jobs@acted.org and received on or before 5.00PM on 25TH April 2023 with the subject line “Position/Job title”
Please do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.
Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments.
ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. ACTED has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconducts. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will be expected to sign ACTED’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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