Project Officer-Livelihood& Resilience at World Vision Kenya

Key Responsibilities:

• The L&R Project Officer will provide technical leadership and oversee the implementation of the project, “Scaling Up the Reuse of Domestic Water to Enhance Food Production Among Vulnerable Communities,” implemented by World Vision Kenya from 1 March 2026 to 28 February 2027 with a budget of USD 90,000. The role will ensure effective delivery of integrated water, food, energy, and nutrition interventions aimed at improving food security, child nutrition, and climate resilience among vulnerable households in rural ASAL (Kalawa, Makueni) and urban informal settings (Changamwe, Mombasa). The officer will ensure timely, quality, and cost-efficient implementation, monitoring, learning, and scaling of proven innovations in collaboration with communities, government, and partners.

Project Implementation, Technical Leadership and Scale-Up Delivery

• Lead the implementation of integrated water, food, energy, and nutrition interventions, ensuring fidelity to the scale-up design and adaptation to local contexts (Kalawa and Changamwe).
• Provide technical oversight on installation and use of key innovations including greywater recycling systems, farm ponds, solar-powered irrigation, drip irrigation, and hydroponics/vertical gardens.
• Guide the application of the tiered household package model to support incremental adoption of technologies by vulnerable households.
• Ensure integration of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and energy-saving solutions (e.g., improved cookstoves) within household interventions.
• Coordinate closely with county government departments and extension systems to align implementation with local development priorities and ensure sustainability.
• Facilitate community mobilization, beneficiary targeting, and inclusion of Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) households.
• Strengthen capacity of community resource persons and lead farmers to support demonstration-led adoption and peer-to-peer learning

Quality Assurance, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL)

• Develop and operationalize detailed implementation plans (DIPs), budgets, and monitoring frameworks aligned with project outputs and timelines.
• Oversee real time data collection and management using LMMS and GIS tools to track adoption, performance, and outcomes.
• Conduct regular field monitoring, technical backstopping, and supervision visits to ensure functionality and quality of installed systems.
• Track financial performance in collaboration with finance staff, ensuring cost-efficiency and adherence to budget.
• Lead documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and evidence from the scale-up model to inform replication.
• Facilitate quarterly reflection and learning forums with communities, partners, and stakeholders.
• Prepare and submit high-quality monthly, quarterly, and final reports.

Advocacy, Partnerships and Systems Strengthening

• Strengthen partnerships with county governments, technical departments, and local stakeholders to embed solutions within existing systems.
• Support integration of project approaches into county plans, budgets, and extension services.
• Contribute to development of technical briefs, case studies, and evidence products for advocacy and external engagement.
• Promote community voice and participation in local planning and decision-making processes.

Resource Mobilization and Scale-Up Support

• Contribute to development of concept notes and proposals to expand or replicate the model.
• Support identification of funding opportunities with donors, private sector, and government.
• Promote community contribution and cost-sharing mechanisms to enhance ownership and sustainability

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional experience

• Strong technical understanding of integrated water, food, energy, and nutrition systems.
• Experience in supervising field activities, contractors, and community-based facilitators.
• Proven skills in project planning, budgeting, and implementation tracking.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection, analysis, and reporting (experience with digital tools such as LMMS, GIS, or similar platforms is an added advantage).
• Ability to facilitate training, capacity building, and community mobilization.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and adaptive management skills.
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple priorities

Required Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, or a closely related field from a recognized university.
• At least 2–3 years of relevant experience in food security, livelihoods, WASH, or climate-smart agriculture programming.
• Demonstrated experience in community-based project implementation, including planning, monitoring, and evaluation of integrated development projects.
• Practical experience in climate-smart agriculture (CSA), small-scale irrigation systems, water management (e.g., greywater reuse, water harvesting), or sustainable food production systems.
• Experience working with vulnerable communities, including household-level livelihood and nutrition interventions.
• Proven ability to engage and collaborate with government agencies, NGOs, and community structures.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience in scaling up development innovations or replication of pilot projects.
• Knowledge of nutrition sensitive agriculture, infant and young child feeding (IYCF), or community nutrition programming.
• Experience with solar-powered irrigation systems, hydroponics, or precision irrigation technologies.
• Familiarity with ASAL and urban informal settlement contexts in Kenya.
• Experience working with World Vision systems and programming approaches.
• Knowledge of county government systems, policies, and planning processes.