Cash and Livelihoods Officer Iraq Nineveh – National
Mosul, Iraq
JOB DETAIL
The purpose of the Cash and Livelihoods Project Officer position is to ensure day to day implementation of the Project activities in Nineveh by contributing to specific technical livelihoods programme components.
NRC IRAQ is committed to:
- Equal employment opportunities
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Localization of workforce
Purpose of the role
The purpose of the Cash and Livelihoods Project Officer position is to ensure day to day implementation of the Project activities in Nineveh by contributing to specific technical livelihoods programme components.
What you will do
- Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.
- Implement delegated CC project portfolio according to plan of action.
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
- Ensure proper filing of documents.
- Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist.
- Promote and share ideas for technical improvement.
- Support with referrals to other NRC sectors or through external referral mechanisms.
Specifically, you will;
- Conduct regular field visits to project sites to monitor progress, identify challenges, and provide technical support to beneficiaries.
- Support the development and implementation of project activities, including surveys, capacity-building workshops, training sessions, and networking events.
- Facilitate transactions between farmers and retailers and ensure quality sustainable order management.
- Take the lead in community mobilization and targeting and monitor the distribution of in-kind assistance and block grants while maintaining a complete paper trail for all registrations, verifications and distributions for all livelihoods and cash-related activities.
- Organize the establishment and running of farmer field schools in coordination with relevant stakeholders to ensure the sustainability of the approaches.
- Facilitate the establishment and strengthening of value chains and promote innovative market linkages for agricultural products between producer groups and market actors.
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with targeted communities, including local leaders, project committees and business dealers, ensuring that they are informed and participate.
- Conduct market assessments and mapping to understand how local agriculture markets work and are linked to enable appropriate programming.
- Conduct regular project monitoring and update the Project Coordinator on progress in the field.
- Support market assessments, mapping, beneficiary selection, Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) surveys and end line surveys to inform program design and implementation.
- Raise procurement requisition as per procurement & spending plans for agriculture related activities.
- Any other tasks as assigned by the project PM or PC.
Professional competencies
- 2-3 years’ experience working in cash and livelihood Projects in a humanitarian/recovery context.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
- Overall good knowledge of geography and local population demographics/dynamics.
- Experience with capacity-building and training approaches and methods.
- Experience with community engagement approaches and principles.
- Experience with community engagement and development of civil society capacity.
- Previous experience in implementing Value chain projects (Agriculture, poultry, livestock).
- IT competencies including MS Office.
Behavioral competencies
- Handling insecure environment.
- Planning and delivering results.
- Working with people.
- Analyzing.
- Communication with impact and respect.
- Coping with change.
What We Offer
We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.
- Contract Duration: 12 months
- Duty Station: Nineveh – Mosul – Iraq
- Health Insurance is provided.
- Salary: G5/S1, according to NRC’s Iraq salary scale and terms and conditions.
We are also looking for people who share our values:
- To be dedicated to what we do.
- To be innovative with our solutions.
- To act as one unified and inclusive team.
- To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.
- Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply, for more information please read Job Description
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.
NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.
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