Food Security and Livelihood Project Officer Assistant

Action Against Hunger (ACF) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-political, non-denominational and non-profit making organisation working in the Palestinian Territory since 2002.

ACF is recruiting for its Gaza office a

Food Security and Livelihood Project Officer Assistant

For a period of 7 months

The Candidate will:

-Supervise the daily field activities in coordination with the local partners and report on progress and any encountered challenges to the Head of Project.
-Participate through data collection and field visits in stakeholder mapping and evaluation of financial service providers’ capacities for cash transfers in Gaza.
-Supervise daily field work of the partners and the implementation of the signed agreements and report on any challenges to the Head of Project.
-Support project beneficiaries in preparing the business plans and cash flow statements for the on-going income generating activities.
-Participate in evaluating the prepared business plans in coordination with the local partners and under ACF supervision.
-Support the implementation monitoring of the approved business plans in coordination with the local partners and supervision and according to ACF policies and procedures.
-Assist and provide technical and financial advice for the project beneficiaries in purchasing needed tools and materials for the re-establishment of income generating activities.
-Participate in the data collection for project activity evaluation or for communication purposes under the supervision of the Head of Project.
-Support the organisation of the trainings and awareness sessions with the beneficiaries and in collaboration with local partners.
-Ensure field work complies with project working plan and timeframe.
-Assist local partners in the report writing in order to ensure its quality and the compliance of donor requirement.
-Assist in preparing and updating beneficiary file for each business category.
-Assist in the preparation of time schedules and households survey tools.
-Assist in preparing monitoring plans and implementation procedures for each activity.
-Working with other project staff to cross check the beneficiary list and avoid duplications, establish and/or update beneficiary database.
-Additional tasks may be requested from the employee in the scope of the project framework.
-Participate in distributing the daily tasks for the social workers.
-Supervise the daily work by the social workers and data collection process in the field.
-Collect the completed questionnaires from the field on daily basis.
-Follow up the data entry for the collected data.

Profile of the Candidate:
-Bachelor degree in Economics, Business Administration or any related field.
-Knowledge of Livelihoods program implementation, preferably in the Gaza Strip, knowledge of business plans development is a must.
-Proven relevant field experience in food security context in the Gaza Strip.
-Past experience in the business sector and/or supervising projects focusing on income generating activities will be a plus.
-Capacity to apply organizational rules and procedures.
-Capacity to treat information confidentially.
-Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
-Flexibility and ability to work under pressure
-Excellent in reading, writing and speaking both Arabic and English
-MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and email/internet software.

 

Application Procedure:

ACF is an equal opportunities employer. Women are encouraged to apply for this position

Interested candidates should send a letter of motivation and their updated CV including at least two professional references covering the last two supervisors for their last two jobs to

[email protected]  

Applications will be accepted up to and including the 27th April 2016.
PLEASE indicate the reference FSL/TTPP/16/03 in all correspondence.
Only those candidates pre-selected for a test and an interview will be contacted.

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