BACKGROUND
Islamic Relief Somalia (IRS) has been operating in Somalia since 2006 and has responded to conflict and drought affected people through provision of life saving assistance. Through our projects, IR has continuously been providing safe drinking water, improving hygienic sanitation facilities, increasing hygiene awareness, particularly to ones living in IDP camps; empowering the urban poor and distressed working children, engaging in conflict management and mitigation and strengthening of community cohesiveness and co-existence.
JOB SUMMARY
The Emergency Assistant- will play a crucial role in the effective and timely implementation of FSL projects in Jowhar. The Emergency Assistant will report to the project Officer in duty station with close working relationship with the Area Manager, Area Coordinator, logistics, Admin and HR team. The Emergency Assistant will ensure the highest level of data integrity and implementation of FSL Quality benchmarks and other CTP protocols and capacity building to the community mobilizers and beneficiaries.
Main responsibilities:
· Assist the coordination and implementation of all assigned project activities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with IRW program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
· In Liaison with the project officer, participate at field level coordination meeting with local government authorities and other agencies
· Ensure target committee establishment with respective villages.
· Lead and coordinate selection of beneficiaries for registration and distributions.
· Ensure timely implementation of emergency response to the beneficiaries.
· Lead post-distribution assessment/monitoring of beneficiaries before provision of second distributions.
· Be involved in community mobilization, targeting and monitor movement and distribution of project & Cash and other activities.
· Conduct regular follow up and joint close post-distribution monitoring on proper use of cash for the intended purposes.
· Verify and review targeted beneficiaries eligible for the provision of response
· Support reporting and monitoring and evaluation, assuring that quality reports are submitted using standard project formats and in a timely manner.
· Perform other duties of similar nature assigned by the supervisor or Area office in charge
Direct:
Budget Responsibilities: none
Role Dimensions:
ACCOUNTABILITY/TRANSPARENT
· Work independently on tasks related to beneficiary registration and mobilization with periodic reporting and direction from supervisor;
· Make decisions on project implementation and its daily management responsibly based on available resources, skills and knowledge of staff and access to affected communities;
· Ensure implementation of locally appropriate and feasible projects in close consultation with local authorities and communities;
· Work in adherence to IR’s policies and procedures.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS
§ Strictly follow on organizational polices and procedure’s, and respect organizational principles at all times and keep organizational confidentiality
§ Demonstrate capacities to establish and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with government officials, local organizations, communities and other stakeholders.**
QUALIFICATIONS
· Diploma/Degree in community development, Social Work, Agriculture/Livestock production, food security or socio-economic development related fields.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
· Minimum of 3 years work experience in FSL work in the INGO/LNGO and UN environment, including exposure to field operations in both emergency and development programs based on cash transfer programming
· Strong reports writing skills
· Proficiency in computer applications including Word, excel, power point and other applications
Additional job responsibilities
Assisting Inter-cluster multi-sectoral assessments during critical situations
Producing Case studies and success stories of beneficiaries
Equal Opportunities
Islamic Relief is equal opportunity employer, however encourages female candidates to apply
How to apply:
· IRW Somalia Program is inviting applications from qualified/Motivated candidates who are interested to submit their CVs and cover letters explaining, how they meet Job description.
· Each application should be addressed to the HR account: hr.mogadishu@islamic-relief.or.ke and include the following:
· An updated CV; and · An application letter
· Academic Qualifications (certificates/Transcripts)
· Copy of your National ID card or passport
· And contact information for three work-related referees.
· Applications not including all of the above information will not be reviewed.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. IRW is an equal opportunity employer, however, encourages qualified female candidates to apply more
Note: Please make sure the job title in the mail subject line is clear as Emergency Assistant - Jowhar