We are an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and suffering in the world’s poorest countries. Concern Worldwide began working in Kenya in May 2002 with the development of an urban programme in Nairobi. Our work expanded into a multi-sectoral programme focusing on urban and rural livelihoods, primary education, HIV and AIDS...
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- In this role, the incumbent will be responsible for supporting the livelihoods programme in the respective sub counties with a focus on livestock, agriculture and sustainable use and management of natural resources. Responsible for timely implementation of program activities guided by the annual work plan and informed by program technical approaches. S/He will work closely with communities and stakeholders at the ward level.
- 3 positions – Marsabit County (Laisamis, Moyale and North Horr Sub-counties)
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Program implementation
- Under the guidance of the Programme Manager, Livelihoods, work closely with the line government departments at the ward level including the Sub County, Ward and Village Administrators, Village/Ward Development Committees, Livestock Production Officers, Water Officers, Natural Resources Management Officers, Ward Animal Health Technicians, Ward Crop Production Officers, Community health units, and Ward Public Health Team and Community Facilitators based in North Horr Sub County to implement program activities
- Support the day-to-day program implementation towards meeting the program mandate in line with the approved work plan, organization policies, and standard operating procedures.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to target community groups such as organized farmer’s field schools, cash transfer project participants, income generating groups, Community Disaster Management Committees and Livestock Marketing Associations amongst others. The technical leadership and mentorship to the groups will entail motivating the group members to undertake the planned activities, document the progress made and provide appropriate feedback to the line manager on support needed for the target groups.
- Support community dialogues towards identification of viable livelihoods priorities that will enhance the wellbeing of the community
- Mentor communities in implementation of the defined livelihoods strategies as shall be guided by the line manager
- Responsible for identification and timely requisition of logistical support towards effective program support.
Monitoring, learning and Documentation
- Responsible for development and updating individual monthly work plans
- Share weekly field monitoring reports
- Support in documentation of program activities (including development of success stories, highlighting community needs, and quantify changes related to livelihood program)
- Support joint market monitoring activities to enhance understanding of Minimum expenditure basket for the context
- Provide support in developing monthly progress reports for North Horr sub-county.
- Participate in relevant progress review meetings at the county level
- Monitor and share regular drought situation and other context specific updates that may enhance or hinders implementation of livelihoods programming
Organizational representation and collaboration
- Represent Concern in sub county, ward, cluster, and community meetings.
- Sensitize the project stakeholders at the community level on the project objectives and areas of collaboration.
- Map stakeholders at the community, sensitize them on project objectives and identify areas of collaboration in consultation with the line manager
Others
- Adhere to and promote the standards outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies to their team, beneficiaries, and be committed to providing a safe working environment
- Participating and contributing towards Concern’s emergency response, as and when necessary
- Take all possible measure to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Any other duties as assigned by the Line Manager
- Complying with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
Person Specification
Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:
- Bachelor's degree or Diploma in livestock, agriculture, natural resource management, development studies, environmental science, or a related field.
- At least two (2) to three (3) years’ experience in a similar role
- Working knowledge and interest in Project Cycle Management, Community Participatory Approaches, Climate Smart Agriculture, Natural Resources Management, Integrated Water Resources Management and Watershed Development.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing community development projects in ASAL areas.
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Computer literate with good MS Office skills
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Job Summary
The jobholder will provide technical guidance as well as hands on support to the Sub County Health Management Team to strengthen their capacity and skills in the implementation of High Impact Nutrition interventions (HINI) through the integrated health systems strengthening approach.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead MOH and local partners in the implementation of High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI), IMAM services, MIYCN, IMAM Surge, BFCI, Family MUAC approach and other health and nutrition interventions at the facility and community level
- In partnership with the Sub-County Health Management Team (SCHMT), including the Sub County Medical Officer in charge of health (SCMOH), Sub County Public Health Nurse, Sub-County Nutrition Coordinator, Public Health Officers and the Sub County Nutrition coordinator develop and implement monthly work plans.
- Ensure programme quality control through implementation of monthly and quarterly M&E
- Work closely with the Project Manager in monitoring the nutrition situation in Concern areas of work by analyzing and tracking sub-country achievement against project outputs on a monthly basis.
- In close collaboration with line manager, hold monthly meeting with SCHMT to review progress towards monthly outputs and jointly develop action plans.
- While working with the hospital nutritionists and the SCNO, support the rural health facilities to establish referral systems and create referral links for access to in-patient and other services beneficial to the beneficiaries not provided by the rural health facilities;
- Support with operationalizing of community Units and community mobilization activities; plan trainings , routinely engage Community Health Volunteers and Community Health Assistants
- Support the CHAs in monthly mentorship/coaching of CHPs and their trainings, routinely engage Community Health Volunteers and Community Health Assistants during monthly review meetings.
- Support with documentation of the programme implementation process to generate lesson learning as well as case studies.
- Participate in coordination of and data collection for, KPC, SMART and coverage surveys to assess the nutrition situation of the target population.
- Writing of weekly briefs, monthly reports as well as quarterly reports.
- Contribute significantly to the development of regular donor reports.
- Together with MOH and other partners involved in delivery of nutrition services in the ward and conduct joint support supervision visits.
- Work closely with Sub County Nutritionist and CNC to ensure that all health facilities have adequate supplies of therapeutic commodities at all time.
- In close consultation with line manager, take leadership in implementation of sub county health and nutrition costed work plan;
- Support the line manager in tracking of monthly and quarterly progress made on the costed work plan for the sub county health and nutrition activities;
- Attend and adequately represent Concern in Sub-county meetings/fora e.g. Sub-county Steering Group(SCSG), Sub-county Nutrition Coordination meeting among others as may be required;
- Together with MOH and other partners involved in delivery of nutrition services in the Sub- County, conduct joint support supervision visits
- Support in implementation of ICCM-CMAM research
Others
- Adhere to and promote the standards outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies to their team, beneficiaries, and be committed to providing a safe working environment
- Participating and contributing towards Concern’s emergency response, as and when necessary
- Take all possible measure to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Any other duties as assigned by the line manager
Person Specification
Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:
- A degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or in Nursing with solid experience/background in Nutrition. Strong clinical competence and knowledge of maternal and child health will be added advantage.
- At least three (3) years’ experience in Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition programming in both a development and emergency context.
- Has KNDI license or Nursing council practicing license.
- An understanding of the context, prior experience working and/or living in any of the target counties is highly desirable
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Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to the livelihoods support officers, community resource persons, local partners and Sub-county government line officers in charge of key sectors including department of agriculture livestock and fisheries, Water environment and Natural resources, trade, industry and enterprise development amongst others to establish a collaborative working environment; implement high impact and evidence informed interventions
- Lead in the day-to-day livelihoods program implementation and prudent utilization of resources towards meeting the program mandate in line with the approved work plan, organization policies, and standard operating procedures.
- Foster linkages with partners and other stakeholders in public and private sector in the county to enhance synergy, collaboration and learning.
- Represent Concern Worldwide at county level livelihoods related technical and coordination forums in: Natural Resources Management, livestock sector forums, agriculture sector forums, WESCOORD, contingency planning and early warning systems, social protection systems and cash transfer programming, and others as will be specified by the line manager.
- Play an active role in generation of new knowledge through documentation of informal interactions and feedback sessions with communities and through participating/supporting surveys and other assessments; and documenting lessons learnt and success stories.
- Contribute to the development of the annual work plan and quarterly costed work plan and support in tracking implementation and reporting.
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor progress, receive community feedback, check on the quality and impact of activities approved in the annual program proposal, and quarterly costed work plans.
Responding to Emergencies
- Participating and contributing towards Concern’s emergency response, as and when necessary
- Complying with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
Others
- Adhere to and promote the standards outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies to their team, beneficiaries, and be committed to providing a safe working environment
- Take all possible measure to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Any other duties as assigned by the Line Manager
Person Specification
Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture (Agriculture Production, Agriculture Economics, or Agribusiness) or a related field.
- At least three (3) to four (4) years’ experience in a similar role
- Proven experience in community engagement and facilitation.
- Must have a working knowledge of Project Cycle Management, Climate Smart Agriculture, Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction, Water supply systems, Natural Resource Management, Pastoral and farmer Field Schools, Making Markets work for the Poor and Value Chains Development.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing livelihoods programs in ASAL areas.
- Fluency in spoken and written language in English and Swahili
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Computer literate with good MS Office skills
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Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to the livelihoods support officers, community resource persons, local partners and Sub-county government line officers in charge of key sectors including department of agriculture livestock and fisheries, Water environment and Natural resources, trade, industry and enterprise development amongst others to establish a collaborative working environment; implement high impact and evidence informed interventions
- Lead in the day-to-day livelihoods program implementation and prudent utilization of resources towards meeting the program mandate in line with the approved work plan, organization policies, and standard operating procedures.
- Foster linkages with partners and other stakeholders in public and private sector in the county to enhance synergy, collaboration and learning.
- Represent Concern Worldwide at county level livelihoods related technical and coordination forums in: Natural Resources Management, livestock sector forums, agriculture sector forums, WESCOORD, contingency planning and early warning systems, social protection systems and cash transfer programming, and others as will be specified by the line manager.
- Play an active role in generation of new knowledge through documentation of informal interactions and feedback sessions with communities and through participating/supporting surveys and other assessments; and documenting lessons learnt and success stories.
- Contribute to the development of the annual work plan and quarterly costed work plan and support in tracking implementation and reporting.
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor progress, receive community feedback, check on the quality and impact of activities approved in the annual program proposal, and quarterly costed work plans.
Responding to Emergencies
- Participating and contributing towards Concern’s emergency response, as and when necessary
- Complying with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
Others
- Adhere to and promote the standards outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies to their team, beneficiaries, and be committed to providing a safe working environment
- Take all possible measure to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Any other duties as assigned by the Line Manager
Person Specification
Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture (Agriculture Production, Agriculture Economics, or Agribusiness) or a related field.
- At least three (3) to four (4) years’ experience in a similar role
- Proven experience in community engagement and facilitation.
- Must have a working knowledge of Project Cycle Management, Climate Smart Agriculture, Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction, Water supply systems, Natural Resource Management, Pastoral and farmer Field Schools, Making Markets work for the Poor and Value Chains Development.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing livelihoods programs in ASAL areas.
- Fluency in spoken and written language in English and Swahili
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Computer literate with good MS Office skills
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Main Duties and Responsibilities
Programme management
- Provide technical leadership in implementation of the livelihoods programming in Turkana County ensuring projects are executed in line with relevant strategies and donor guidelines. This also includes holding projects inception and planning meeting with County team for effective implementation.
- Provide technical mentorship to livelihoods officers, local implementing partners and government officers including identification of capacity gaps and supporting in addressing them for effective implementation of the livelihoods program.
- Develop county specific program annual and quarterly implementation plans and budgets.
- Assist implementing partners and government officers in developing area specific program plans (joint plans) and budgets aligned to the program objectives.
- Lead documentation of livelihoods programming through development of the relevant progress reports, Donor reports, success stories
- Contribute towards the design of livelihoods program proposals with support from the line manager
- Representation of Concern in the relevant County technical and coordination forums
- Leading joint planning and implementation of livelihoods activities with the County and other relevant partners
- Identification, communication and support in addressing of program related risks
- Working closely with the livelihoods and other project team, ensure livelihood program adaptation to the prevailing contextual changes to ensure relevance to the local needs.
- Facilitate dialogue between communities and relevant government departments around the development and emergency priorities emerging from the community dialogue, planning and participation sessions.
- Support relevant government departments to incorporate community priorities into the annual work plans and budgets
- Plan, design and undertake training for program participants and/ or partner staff based on identified needs.
- Actively promote inter sectoral linkages such as Gender, Equality, Conflict and Peace, Protection, HIV and AIDS, Disaster Risk Reduction, Environment, Climate Change Adaptation, and Partnerships where relevant.
Budget management
- Monitor delegated program budgets and partner grants against the costed work plan
- Prepare quarterly costed work plans as per the delegated program budget.
Monitoring, learning and evaluation
- Develop a comprehensive joint monitoring plan with partners and government and oversee its implementation
- Provide capacity support in all livelihoods evaluation exercises such as baseline/midline and end line surveys, post distribution monitoring exercise etc.
- Design relevant tools to facilitate the implementation/execution of the monitoring plan and provide the necessary capacity building of partners on the use of the developed tools.
- Spend at least 60% of time visiting project sites with field visit reports prepared at the end of every monitoring trip.
- Participation in relevant monthly and quarterly review meetings.
- Planning and participation in all livelihoods field donor visits.
Responding to Emergencies
- Participating and contributing towards Concern’s emergency response, as and when necessary
- Complying with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
Others
- Adhere to and promote the standards outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies to their team, beneficiaries, and be committed to providing a safe working environment
- Responsible for leading the resolution of all livelihoods related CRM issues as shall be assigned by the CRM desk
- Take all possible measure to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Any other duties as assigned by the Line Manager
Person Specification
Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Community Development, Animal Health, Livestock Production, Crop Production, Natural Resource Management, Disaster Management, Social Sciences or any other relevant field.
- At least five (5) to 6 years’ experience implementing integrated livelihoods program.
- Proven experience and knowledge of Project Cycle Management, Climate Smart Agriculture, Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction, Animal Production and Health, Water Supply Systems, Natural Resource Management, Cash Transfer Programming and Market Systems Development.
- Be willing to accept responsibility and to show good judgment, initiative, and resourcefulness
- Fluency in spoken and written language in English and Swahili
- Good computing and report writing skills
Method of Application
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements, should send a detailed CV with three professional referees and Cover Letter Only to nairobi.hr@concern.net with the subject of the email ason or before Friday, 17th October 2025. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
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