Overview
The Agriculture Assistant will be responsible for community mobilization, project implementation at the community level, and ensuring relief food distribution adheres to targeting and distribution system principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out effective mobilization & sensitization of community & other key stakeholders on project implementation strategies
- Be responsible for ensuring successful implementation to completion of project activities at community level
- Ensure that relief food distribution activities adhere to the principles and rules of community based targeting and distribution system.
- Provide effective training, support & supervision to relief committee on roles and responsibilities to ensure that programme deliveries adhere to humanitarian sphere standard and agreed programme quality.
- Transparently facilitate the identification, registration and review of project beneficiaries according to the agreed beneficiaries eligibility criteria
- Ensure that project accountability systems at community level are implemented and properly documented
- Ensure the involvement of the poorest, vulnerable & marginalized members of the community in programme identification, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
- Participate in gathering and compiling of project information (reports, assessments, baseline, monitoring and evaluation)
- Prepares reports to the field Supervisor as required
- Gather security information and incident reporting for security management
- Gathering of food security information to enable food security monitoring
- Keeps the beneficiaries, local government representatives, local authorities and other stakeholders in the area fully informed about the Oxfam’s programme.
- To be familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, SPHERE principles and Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes
Qualifications
Relevant degree or diploma and or professional qualifications in Agriculture.
Other Details
Languages Required
Demonstrates appropriate written and verbal communication skills.
Languages Preferred
Not specified
Contract Duration
Fixed Term
Work Modality
On-site
Remuneration
Not specified
