Livelihood Senior Project Officer

JOB TITLE: Livelihood Senior Project Officer
DEPARTMENT: Program
Report to: FSL Program Manager
LOCATION: Aden

Duration: 1 Year Renewable according to budget and preformance

ABOUT Building Foundation for Development – BFD :

BFD is a non-governmental and non-profit Yemeni organization, that was established in 2014. BFD is a leading humanitarian-based and development-oriented organization, which over the years extended its coverage to several governorates, with a mission of working in a humane and transparent manner for the vulnerable groups in society and the affected groups through the implementation of sustainable development and relief programs of the highest quality.  Responding to all areas of humanitarian sectors, BFD aspires to provide an integrated humanitarian and development response to conflict-affected areas through a professional, neutral, transparent approach, and through adherence to the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS).

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION

MAIN PURPOSE: 

The Livelihood Senior Officer will be responsible for the overall implementation and success of the project designing, planning, and results-based implementation of livelihood activities at the field level. The Livelihood senior Officer will work with the team members and will coordinate and establish the linkages among all the project team members, groups, stakeholders, and line agencies. The Livelihood Senior Officer will provide timely, accurate reports to the project management unit.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide overall leadership and management for the livelihood component of the project
• Develop and implement project work plans, ensuring alignment with project objectives and outcomes, including setting timelines, milestones, and budgets,
• Coordinate with stakeholders, partners, and beneficiaries to ensure effective project implementation.
• Develop and provide technical and supervise the implementation of the Inclusive Sustainable Livelihoods for the crisis-affected people with disabilities and their Families in Aden in line with the project program strategy, including necessary preparation of design, technical support, stakeholder consultation, preparation of terms of reference, concept notes, action plan, identifying appropriate implementation modalities to operationalizing activities;
• Provide Management and technical inputs to the implementation of the livelihood project activities and outputs – including organizing and participating in meetings, training, workshops and other events and providing analysis of results;
• Supervise and support the livelihood team members, ensuring their roles and responsibilities are clear
• Oversee the identification and assessment of households with persons with disabilities across Aden.
• Oversee the identification of suitable MFIs and their specific credit/loan requirements.
• Develop training curriculums and materials tailored for persons with disabilities with cooperation with consultants and advisers.
• Manage the delivery of soft skills, financial management, and business development training for the beneficiaries
• Coordinate the provision of technical support to MFIs to ensure that persons with disabilities are effectively included in their systems
• Develop internal monitoring and operational plan, undertake capacity development of stakeholders, including guiding area-based staff on field implementation;
• Provide inputs and feedback to reporting; ensure systematic documentation and filing;
• Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work;
• Monitors specific stages of project implementation and establishes the research/evidence-based linkages/integration across programs;
• Review the Action Plan annually and update and revise corresponding work plans as necessary; and
• Plan the actions with close coordination and guidance of the Programme management unit.
• Support the MEAL department in designing and improving the evaluation of livelihood programming, beneficiaries’ satisfaction surveys and PDM.
• Managing the team of project professionals and ensuring they all work towards the same goals.
• Carry out regular monitoring of field livelihood activities, report findings and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Support M&E activities related to the livelihood component.

Required Qualifications:

Qualifications and Skills:

• University degree in a relevant field is required
• Minimum 2 years of previous experience in the humanitarian work.
• Demonstrated understanding of livelihood development activities;
• Proven experience in integrating different components of resources management in line with community development, livelihood resiliency development;
• Previous experience with similar INGO/NGO projects will be an asset;
• Demonstrated understanding of the links between sustainable development, community development, social and gender issues;
• Excellent in communication skills in both English and Arabic; ability to communicate strategically under pressure
• Excellent writer – ability to develop high quality reports and accurately analyze M&E data
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Self-motivated, results-driven and excellent sense of organization
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions quickly and independently
• Ability to work independently and respond to feedback in a timely and professional manner
• Ability to represent the Agency in high level meetings with donors and local government
• Proficient in computer applications, especially with Word and Excel, PowerPoint a plus.
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills, ability to listen, to organize and to present information, views and concepts in a concise, understandable and interesting way for a variety of audiences, both written and oral
• Good at facilitation and training skills
• Experience in communicating in a professional way with donors and other stakeholders in a politically and culturally sensitive environment
• Experience working in different cultural work environments & ability to perform tasks to interact effectively and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socio-economic, educational, ethnic and professional backgrounds
• Team player with outstanding personal attitude: especially sense of responsibility, diplomacy, concern for quality, result orientation

Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS):

BFD workers must adhere to Humanitarian standards the values and principles outlined in BFD policy – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equity. In accordance with these values, the BFD Employee enforces policies on the Code of Conduct from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation.
Equal Opportunities:

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the BFD Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

BFD doesn’t charge any fees for recruitment and doesn’t have any relationship with recruitment agencies

Note:

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible and not to wait until the closing date, as applications and CVs will be reviewed as they are submitted and interviews will be conducted on rolling basis .

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Deadline to send your application: before: 25/ Sept/ 2023