Food Security and Livelihoods 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 Livelihoods (FSL) Project Officer Assistant
For a period of 3 months

The Candidate will:
-Supervise the daily field activities in coordination with the local partners and report on progress and any challenges encountered 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.
-Support project beneficiaries to prepare 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 under ACF supervision.
-Support the implementation and monitoring of the approved business plans in coordination with the local partners.  Supervision will be undertaken by ACF according to organisational policies and procedures.
-Assist and provide technical and financial advice for the project beneficiaries to purchase the required 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 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 report writing in order to ensure quality and compliance with donor requirements .
-Propose solutions and improvements relating to project progress.
-Assist in preparing and updating beneficiary files for each business category.
-Assist in the preparation of time schedules and household survey tools.
-Assist in preparing monitoring plans and implementation procedures for each activity.
-Coordinate with other project staff to cross check the beneficiary list and avoid duplications, establish and/or update beneficiary database.
-Participate in distributing daily tasks to 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 a daily basis.
-Follow up the data entry for the collected data.
-Report activities of the field to the Head of Project daily taking into consideration reports requirements and monitoring and/or evaluation tools and indicators.
-Participate in the preparation and the collection of data for communication purposes (case studies....).

Profile of the Candidate:

-Bachelor degree in Economics, Business Administration or any related field.
-Knowledge in 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.
-Obliged to maintain confidentiality for information relating to all ACF activities. 
-Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
-Flexibility and ability to work under pressure.
-Fluency in reading, writing and speaking Arabic and English.
-Excellent knowledge in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet.

Application Procedure:

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

Interested candidates submit a Motivation letter 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 16th August 2016.
PLEASE indicate the reference FSL/TTPP/16/11 in all correspondence.
Only those candidates pre-selected for a test and an interview will be contacted.

 

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