World Vision Ethiopia began its first intervention in Ethiopia in 1971 with relief and opened the Ethiopia office in 1975. Relief, rehabilitation and small community development projects dominated the decade that followed. During the 1984/85 drought, World Vision Ethiopia participated in a massive relief operation that saved the lives of millions of people.

Major Responsibility

Planning, implementation, Reporting and Follow up

• Support preparation of annual detailed implementation plans of livelihood sector for RFSA Tigray region.
• Conduct regular participatory monitoring visits to project operational woredas and prepare and submit monitoring/field visit report to immediate supervisor.
• Lead preparation and submission of progress and technical reports pertaining to livelihood sector in the region.
• Coordinate technical assessments and studies to inform program design and development.
• Coordinate monitoring, and mid-term and terminal evaluation of projects/ interventions in the livelihoods sector; promote best practices and lessons learnt; work with the team to produce publication and disseminate success stories, challenges, and new opportunities to foster organizational learning.
• Ensure Livelihood recovery interventions are implemented as per the approved plan and standards, in integration and complimentary way with other technical sectors for maximum impact.
• Advice in the preparation of budget for livelihood sector, purchase of goods and services related to the sector

Technical Support, Supervision and networking

• Ensure Livelihood recovery interventions are implemented as per the approved plan and standards, in integration and complimentary way with other technical sectors for maximum impact.
• Conduct regular participatory monitoring visits to project operational woredas and prepare and submit monitoring/field visit report to immediate supervisor.
• Provide technical support around agriculture livelihoods, value chain, IGAs, private sector engagement, food security including adoption of scalable and research proven technologies.
• Provide technical support to livelihood officers and lead their performance planning and evaluation.
• Promote major cross cutting themes including environment, gender, protection, disability, peace building into Agriculture sector and related programming
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant regional and zonal agriculture, and other relevant offices, financial service providers, and other key stakeholders.

Designs/planning Livelihoods and Economic Recovery

• Identify and promote livelihood activities under recovery context following conflict or natural or anthropogenic shocks
• Promote and share innovative ideas for improvement of livelihood activities implementation.
• Plans livelihood activities for post-conflict situations and support recovery of livelihoods including animal restocking, seed replenishment and market linkage
• Coordinates with livelihoods team in promoting Income Generating Activities (IGAs)  related to Agriculture
• Leads cash or cash voucher response

Capacity Building

• Identify potential capacity building needs of the staff, partners, and community, and organize/ facilitate trainings and workshops on relevant Livelihoods topics.
• Support preparation of guidelines and training manuals pertinent to livelihoods recovery.
• Provide capacity building training to project staff and government stakeholders
• Recruit, train and retain qualified staff for interventions of livelihoods sector to ensure timely and quality program delivery
• Oversee the effective implementation of training and livelihood related modalities to build local level capacity.

Requirements

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• BSc/MSc. Degree in Agriculture/Agronomy, Plant science, animal science, Rural development, and other related fields.

Technical trainings required:

• Exposed to different technical trainings on the subject area (Food Security, Livelihood, VC, IGA, business development, Marketing, Financial literacy, Project Designing/ PCM, etc)
• Ability to undertake field assessment, and facilitating trainings and workshops
• Report writing skills as per the donors and other stakeholders requirements Practical experience in planning, implementation, and management of projects related to livelihoods/smart agriculture is required.
• knowledge and understanding of GoE Ethiopia PSNP, and agriculture related policy and programs of the country.
• Experience in Research area is a plus.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Practical experience on PSNP context,
• Practical experience on supporting planning and implementation of livelihood recovery projects in conflict affected areas is preferred.
• Knowledge and exposure of working on governments PSNP program, resilience building,
• Experience on using market system development, and private sectors.
• Strong and demonstrated partnership management experience.

Required Professional Experience

• 6 years for BSc and four years for MSc of work experience in coordinating and/or providing technical assistance on agricultural development, resilience, livelihood, and food security programs, with a preference for USAID-funded (BHA or FTF) programming experience

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

• 45% field travel