Regional Food Security and Livelihood Specialist

Regional Food Security and Livelihood Specialist

Solidarites International

Lebanon

About the job

The main challenges:

Humanitarian funding is reducing and being further streamlined. Positioning in frontlines and good programme follow up becomes insufficient to guarantee mission’s sustainability. For this reason, the programmatic structure of the Mission requires major investments into strategic areas that can allow the Country programme to evolve: key investments for development of concept notes and proposals towards development donors; integration of other actors/sectors through strategic local and international partnerships; enhancement of programme quality; innovation.

Priorities for the 2/3 first months:

• lead and follow closely the implementation of the EU delegation and CDCS funded livelihood project;
• Steer the development of key investments, studies and concept notes for kickstarting new programmatic approaches mainly in the livelihood, ecomomic resilience; agriculture sector and towards different donors. Be the driving force for putting new FSL activities into place and ensure strong integration of agroecological practies
• Facilitate the review and development of the FSL strategy/strategic approaches;
• Reinforce integration of priority crosscutting elements: Protection mainstreaming, environment/liate Change, DRR, Social Stability.

Security:

The security situation in Aden (where the staff is expected to spend 50 to 70% of her/his time) remains unstable and volatile notwithstanding the distance from frontlines. Risks related to high proliferation of weapons, radicalization and potential jihadi attacks remain significant. Due to the above, movements for international staff remain highly constrained, with a limited number of public places (some cafes, restaurants and supermarket) validated for movements during daytime. Curfew time is at 10.30 pm.

In Lebanon, while the context remain volatile, the living condition are good and limited mouvement restrictions.

Your profile

Education/academic background:

• BA minimum;
• EXPERIMENT IN THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR : +5 years;
• EXPERIMENT ON SIMILAR POSITIONS : 3-4 years.

Specific skills and experience:

• Transversal skills
  • Experience in implementation of cash, market-based interventions, livelihood projects and in the development of studies, analysis and concept note for development donors;
  • Solid capacity to work on enhancement of the FSL programme quality aspects;
  • Solid Experience in livelihood and agriculture programming.
• Technical skills
  • Advanced communication skills with capacity to juggle conflicting priorities;
  • Advanced analytical skills;
  • Capacity to work to tight deadlines in a challenging humanitarian environment.

Language:

• Fluency in written and oral English mandatory;
• Arabic an asset.

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