The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is working to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.

Reporting Lines

This position is under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative in Ethiopia (FAOR) and the direct supervision of the Social Policy Officer (Social Protection and Resilience).

Technical Focus

The Regional Livelihoods Coordinator provides specialized expertise to support the Amhara PSNP team in coordination, providing capacity building, and supporting implementation of the Livelihood component of the programme.

Tasks And Responsibilities

The Regional Livelihoods Coordinator will carry out, among other activities, the following tasks:

• Support the planning and reporting of the livelihoods component and ensure the rollout/introduction of the material to Amhara administrative staff;
• Support capacity building and coaching on PSNP Livelihood training modules and tools in the area of market assessment, identifying the livelihood menu of options, viable business packages, etc.;
• Support the regional PSNP livelihoods coordination through meeting facilitation, information sharing and partners mobilization;
• Assist the Regional Livelihood technical committee;
• Liaise with the Rural Jobs Agenda and Strategy to seek interventions that respond to identified priorities;
• Coordinate the digitalization of the business plans, inputs and outputs market aggregation at the regional level;
• Coordination a data collection system built on (Management Information System) MIS generated information and complementary data to document the Livelihood dashboard of the PSNP;
• Lead the data collection and update of the PSNP Livelihood dashboard in the Amhara region;
• Document the practices for implementing sequenced livelihoods interventions;
• Pilot the potential digital interventions in skills training, data management and monitoring, and identify alternative combinations of delivery for self-employment (on-farm and off-farm) and wage employment for better impact and scale;
• Participate to joint review and implementation support in the region;
• Monitor the regional deliverables under the contracts between FAO and the Amhara regional;
• Support FAO cash and voucher programing and implementation in the region;
• Perform any other related tasks s requested.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• Candidates should be nationals of Ethiopia.
• Advanced university degree in agriculture, agricultural economics, rural development, livelihood, or related discipline, or any area related to the work of the Organization.
• At least 5 years of working experience on project management and monitoring of contracts with implementing partners at the national level.
• Working knowledge of English and national language of the duty station Amharic.

FAO Core Competencies

• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills

• Extent and relevance of experience in technical fields related to cash transfers, humanitarian and development interventions.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in livelihoods, value chain development, business development, social protection, humanitarian and resilience projects.
• Extent and relevance of Experience in livelihood/business training materials, training of users.
• Extent and relevance of experience in leading or participating in regional working group related to livelihood or cash transfers at the national level.
• Capacity to write relevant documents and reports.
• Familiarity with the PSNP Livelihood component is a plus.
• Working experience in the Amhara region.is a plus

Additional Information

• FAO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing)