SamburuKE
Full-time
Bachelor
11 days ago04/25/202405/25/2024
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Program / Department Summary
With funding from USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Mercy Corps’ Nawiri Program is leading a consortium of Kenyan and international partners on a five-year journey to sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition in Turkana and Samburu Counties of Kenya. Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence gap analysis, as well as partnership, learning, and co-creation, the program takes a robust county-centered design with government leadership, active engagement from communities, the private sector, and civil society. Mercy Corps’ consortium brings together the global leadership, research capacity, technical expertise, and implementation experience necessary to partner with local institutions to test, adapt, and scale evidence-based solutions. Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Turkana and Samburu counties.
General Position Summary
The Assistant Livelihoods officer will be a member of the USAID Nawiri Resilient Livelihoods Team and directly responsible for implementing nutrition-sensitive resilient livelihood interventions at sub-county (prioritized wards) level. These include Climate Smart Agriculture (crop and fodder) production, market systems linkages, private sector and financial inclusion support. S/he will work alongside other USAID Nawiri team members in layering interventions for collective impact at household and community level
Specifically, S/he will be supporting small scale irrigated crops & fodder production for diversified household access to nutrient-dense foods, private sector engagement for access to farm inputs & finance, markets linkages, households economic strengthening that aims at increasing sustained access to incomes (financial inclusion), Climate smart agriculture technologies and improved ecological practices that support Natural resources management. The position is based at the USAID Nawiri sub-county (sub-office) office level supporting interventions within the sub-county and prioritized wards - that continuously experience high rates of acute malnutrition. S/He will work closely with relevant county officials, CSOs and private sector players involved in livelihoods and food security & nutrition within their areas of operation.
Success factors for this role include: A technical person with knowledge in agronomy and dry land agriculture production techniques including marketing, farm inputs access and financial inclusion in Kenya ASALS. S/he must have a good understanding of the interrelationship between natural resources management and agriculture production systems in ASALs. The position requires good understanding of the local context, excellent community mobilization and facilitation skills using local language / dialects. The most successful Mercy Corps staff members have a strong commitment to teamwork and accountability, thrive in evolving and changing environments and make effective written and verbal communication a priority.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Program Management
COMMUNITY AND COUNTY ENGAGEMENT
INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION
OTHER
Organizational Learning
Accountability to Participants
Supervisory Responsibility: N/A
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Livelihoods and food security officer
Works Directly With: Water resources officer, alternative livelihoods officers, REAP for nutrition officers, Health & nutrition officers, NRM / conflict officer, and Sub-office M&E officers.
Knowledge and Experience
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