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Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraging to apply!

NRC has been active in Somalia since 2004 with four area offices in Kismayu, Mogadishu, Garowe and Hargeisa, providing protection and humanitarian assistance to refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees in Somaliland, Puntland, South Central and Jubbaland regions. NRC offers a comprehensive response for returnees and IDPs of high need, addressing their food security, livelihood, shelter, education, ICLA, and water, hygiene and sanitation needs and also responding to emergencies through NRC’s five core competences: Shelter, Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA).

NRC Somalia is part of NRC’s East Africa and Yemen regional operation which comprises of large-scale multi-country humanitarian and early recovery interventions spread across Ten countries (Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Yemen, Eritrea, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and Sudan).  NRC’s overall strategy in the region is to enhance protection and promote the rights of displaced people in humanitarian need by improving living conditions and seeking durable solutions. The regional office is based in Nairobi and works with country programmes to ensure standardization of programmatic and operational approaches, promote multi country programming and ensuring quality and coordination.

1. Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the assistant position is to assist in the day to day implementation of the Livelihoods and cash projects, conducting community-based activities, ensuring community-involvement and assisting with open dialogue/communications between NRC and targeted communities.

Generic responsibilities

1. Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
2. Assist with the implementation of the support function portfolio according to plan of action
3. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
4. Ensure proper filing of documents
5. Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific responsibilities 

• Work directly with enumerators and community focal points in conducting vulnerability assessments to host community, IDPs and returnees using questionnaire and livelihoods needs and market assessments.
• Implement beneficiary targeting and verification process for various activity streams under livelihoods and cash projects.
• Implement skills development activities (vocational skills, apprenticeship, job placement)
• Execute and oversee business development training and grants activities
• Facilitate the training of farmers and farmer organisations
• Training of farmers and farmer organisations
• Establish strong working relationship with targeted communities, including local leaders and identification of local focal points
• Support partners/contractors/trainers to implement business-focused training programmes, soft skills, vocational and technical agriculture trainings,
• Communicate with beneficiaries on project objectives, targeting criteria and beneficiary entitlements
• Ensure protection mainstreaming in implementation of cash program activities
• Participate in market monitoring and JRAMs data collection
• Ensure accountability mechanism are embedded in project implementation
• Participate in M&E activities and Implement delegated Livelihoods and cash project portfolio activities according to plan of action, developed by Livelihoods team
• Community Dialoguing and meeting
• Prepare and develop weekly update reports
• Work alongside implementing partners and/or contractors based on activity plans; implement directly where required
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assisResponsible for gathering daily/site-specific project documentation – collection, verification – of technical activities of Livelihoods project

1. Professional competencies 

Generic professional competencies: 

• 1-2 years previous experience as an assistant in a humanitarian/recovery programme
• Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Experience conducting beneficiary identification, verification and registration
• Experience supporting referrals and/or identifying service providers
• Experience conducting focus groups, questionnaires, and surveys
• Must Have good command of Arabic and English Both written and spoken.
• Must have good command of Somali language mainly spoken.

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

1. Experience working directly with vulnerable groups; able to demonstrate conflict-sensitivity, compassion, discretion.
2. Overall good understanding of the context in Somaliland.
3. Overall good knowledge of geography, local population and local language in the areas of operational interests.
4. Experience working with livelihoods and cash distributions in an NGO.
5. Experience with conducting multi sectoral assessments; experience with mobile data collection and KOBO.
6. Fluent in Arabic both spoken and writing.
7. Competencies in all computer related tasks including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
8. Good understanding of community participation, and very good ability to communicate with beneficiaries.
9. Ability to manage high/low workload depending on emergencies.
10. Ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision in a challenging environment.
11. Ability to work in a multi-cultural team

What We Offer

Contract period: 12 Months with possibility of extension.

Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions

Duty station: Burao

Additional Information:

Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications may be screened prior to the vacancy deadline.

Incomplete, email and paper applications will not be considered.

Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraging.