Food Security & Livelihood Field Officer

Action against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women, and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation. 

In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis continues to generate political, social, and economic pressure due to the war in Lebanon and keeps more than 1.5 million refugees in a situation of increasing vulnerability. In this environment of political, economic and social uncertainty, our teams have maintained their high levels of humanitarian response and aid to Lebanon. Likewise, our interventions have been maintained in the Bekaa and northern areas, as well as in the south of the country, with a special focus on working in partnership or in consortium with other organizations and on institutional strengthening of the relationship with both donors. institutional, such as with local authorities and entities.  

The Food Security and Livelihood Field Officer will be responsible of:

Under the supervision of the supervisor, the FSL Field Officer is responsible for the daily technical planning, conducting the vulnerable assessment with the targeted beneficiaries, implementation, supervision, monitoring and reporting of the field activities of public awareness, temporary employment in livelihood activities, and for ensuring proper coordination with municipalities, other authorities, beneficiaries and related ACF departments.

Objective 1: To ensure timely and quality implementation of FSL activities (35%)

• To actively engage in the beneficiary selection process under the guidance of the supervisor and or FSL Head of project
• To provide support to the Head of Project for the design of the livelihood
• Activities
• To provide support to the Head of Project and the FSL Program Manager in the
• design of the trainings to be provided to livelihood program participants
• To conduct livelihood activities in the field under the guidance of the Supervisor (input, distribution, trainings, set up, maintenance, monitoring, reporting, etc.) in livelihood projects and under COVID-19 response.
• To conduct the vulnerable assessments with household remotely or in field visits, focus group discussions and key informative interviews upon the project request and COVID-19 response under the provision of Supervisor and/or Head of Project.
• Daily follow up on the cash for work activities and COVID-19 response activities with the supervisor and the municipality focal point.
• Monitor the conformity of the field works (trainings, field visits, meeting, etc…) with the standards of Action Against Hunger, and as per the agreed activity planned, BoQs and contracts.
• To provide verbal and written reports on the activities to the Head of Project as and when needed,
• Ensure the timely implementation of field works as per the predefined schedule.
• Inform and document the anomalies and the challenges carried out during the
• implementation phase of the program.
• To participate in the briefing and induction sessions given to stakeholders

Objective 2 - Stakeholder coordinators (25%)

• Coordination in the field with the local partners on best implementation including participants, and communities affected by the project and COVID-19 activities.
• Field coordination with local authorities and ensuring continuous communication with beneficiaries and communities’ representatives regarding the implementation of works and in order to ensure a flawless progress of activities.
• Support in building relationships between Action Against Hunger, local authorities, municipalities and communities.

Objective 3 - Data collection and reporting. (25%)

• File, document and report work progress to the line manager on weekly basis
• Regular reporting of work progress to the Supervisor and Head of Project.
• Report possible problems or conflicts during the activities.
• Report the use of materials and possible improvement.

Objective 4:  To support other humanitarian activities of ACF upon the request of the PM.(15%)

• Support the emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities and capacity under the emergency response like COVID-19 activities.
• Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities.
• Promote gender equality within the humanitarian and/or development work

Objective 5: Security

• Respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
• Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan
• Respect the safety measurements specified in the mission during the emergency situation like COVID-19.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social science, agronomy, food security, humanitarian action, or any related field
• Food security and livelihoods, agriculture, waste management and Cash-for-work. Experience in construction is a plus.
• 1-year experience working in humanitarian action or development. Experience in livelihood programs is a plus.
• Experience in Labor Intensive Activities/Cash-for-Work is desirable.
• Emergency response with crisis or pandemic situation

Action Against Hunger – Lebanon seeks to promote gender equality and is committed to empowering women to participate effectively in their communities, we strongly encourage women to apply.

We Strongly encourage people with disabilities to apply.

ACF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).