Household Economic Strengthening Officer at Save the Children

The Opportunity

Save the Children International Kenya- Samburu Office, has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as Household Economic Strengthening Officer - Turkana. The post holder will provide support to all livelihoods or household economic strengthening work at field level. S/he will be involved in the research and learning, monitoring and evaluation of the livelihoods aspects of the NAWIRI project. With the guidance of the HES Advisor, S/he will be involved in the coordination and networking with NAWIRI consortium partners led by Mercy Corps, County departments responsible for agriculture, livestock, nutrition, trade and other NGOs. S/he will support on all household economic strengthening elements of the project, providing capacity building for the county staff. S/he will promote best practice in the livelihoods programmes and contribute to the overall success of the NAWIRI programme. S/he will be involved in the implementation of livelihoods or household economic strengthening activities in Turkana and /Samburu County.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor degree in Agriculture, Social Sciences, Community Development or other discipline relevant to rural livelihoods.
• At least 3 years relevant project work experience in an international NGO or similar organization.
• Good technical knowledge of policy and practice in the field of livelihoods, crop and livestock production as well as other cross cutting issues.
• Understanding and experience in implementing nutrition security, food security and livelihoods programmes.
• Good understanding of system approach to ending persistent acute malnutrition.
• Clear understanding of and proactive approach to nutrition resilience, hunger and food security issues in Kenya, particularly in the context of Turkana and Samburu counties.
• Understanding and experience in child rights programming.
• Strong commitment to capacity building of county staff and partners with willingness to adopt participatory and consultative approaches.
• Experience with livelihoods programming in arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) settings preferred.
• Good communication, presentation, training and report writing skills.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels.
• Willing to work in isolated rural areas with basic living conditions, and work in difficult field conditions.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets.
• Fluency in English and Swahili, both verbal and written, required.
• Knowledge of local language is an added advantage.
• Commitment to Save the Children values, including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.