Mercy Corps Resilient Livelihoods Coordinator Jobs in Samburu
Mercy Corps Resilient Livelihoods Coordinator Jobs in Samburu
About Mercy Corps Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible.
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The Program / Department
With funding from USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Mercy Corps’ Nawiri Program is leading a consortium of Kenyan and international partners on a five year journey to sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition in Samburu Counties of Kenya.
Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Samburu counties.
The Position Summary
The Resilient Livelihoods Coordinator(RLC) will be responsible for providing supportive leadership, guidance and coordination for timely and quality field level implementation of USAID Nawiri nutrition-sensitive resilient livelihood project portfolio of interventions in specific technical areas of; Climate Smart Agriculture (irrigated crop and livestock) production systems, private sector and financial inclusion, enabling market systems to last miles to support ultra-poor, Household Economic Strengthening (HES) and coordination support for adapted Ultra-Poor Graduation aimed at reducing poverty and improving nutrition outcomes -while reducing women’s time burden.
Essential Job Functions
Vision and Strategy & Its Implementation
Supports the Resilience Livelihoods Technical Team (Climate Smart Agriculture, Alternative Livelihoods and Market Systems, Household Economic Strengthening, Natural Resources Management) in creating and evolving a strong vision for Nawiri’’s approach for supporting vulnerable households to address household food insecurity and work towards maintaining food security despite exposure to shocks and stresses.
Specifically, provide leadership and in-depth technical guidance in translating the programmatic vision, strategies and evidence to implementation. These strategies include Resilient Livelihoods Strategy, NRM & conflict, Community Engagement Strategy while collaborating with other coordinators to translate program strategies into Livelihood interventions i.e. Gender Equity and Social Inclusion, Health, ASHR and Nutrition, Social and Structural Behaviour Change, Governance among others.
Coordinate development and updating stakeholders analysis and a collective impact mapping approach with specific analysis of strategic partnership opportunities for layering, sequencing and or intergration to amplify impact of interventions.
Ensure that cross-cutting aspects of the program such as gender equity, social inclusion, youth, and water systems are included and well-integrated into the agriculture and resilient livelihood activities.
Technical Leadership and & Its Implementation
With technical leadership support of the technical team in Resilient Livelihoods (Climart Smart Advisor and NRM coordinator, Alternative Livelihoods and Market Systems Advisor, take the lead in designing implementation modalities and roll out of Nawiri’s Resilient Livelihoods Strategy, at the County Level, ensuring the development of an operational work plan and its implementation in line with overall Nawiri Operational Program Strategy.
Lead county-level coordinated implementation of the consortium-wide scope ensuring effective layering, sequencing and integration of interventions, as well as integration of nutrition-sensitive interventions in specific technical areas of; Climate Smart Agriculture (irrigated crop and livestock) production systems, private sector and financial inclusion, enabling market systems to last miles to support ultra-poor, Household Economic Strengthening (HES) and coordination supportive oversight of adapted Ultra-Poor Graduation aimed at reducing poverty and improving nutrition outcome -while reducing women’s time burden – ensuring coherence, on time and on budget and of quality with technical guidance and support of the thematic resilient livelihoods technical team, coordinate a sustained results-focused implementation working collaboratively with the internal team and relevant stakeholders to ensure vulnerable households and targeted participants adopt and sustain dry-season milk availability, improved, diversified and sustained nutrient dense foods, sustainably improved household economies, access labour opportunities, while increasing adaptive, absorptive and transformative capacities of highly vulnerable households and participants (including adolescents -male/female, women of reproductive age, male and female youth).
Draws
technical assistance and support for self and for the diverse team members from the Consortium Resilient Livelihoods team to lead quality implementation. Specifically works with support and draws from technical supervision of the Alternative Livelihoods & Markets Advisor and Climate Smart Agriculture Advisor, Household Economic Strengthening advisor to address agriculture and household economic strengthening, more holistically than traditionally siloed livelihoods and micro-businesses.
Program Management and Implementation
Lead RL implementation coherence in line with the program strategy, with technical support and guidance of technical interventions, ensuring effective layering, sequencing and integration to strengthen collective impact, within the consortium and within similar geographies and opportunities with diverse stakeholders.
Coordinate periodic review (weekly, monthly, quarterly) of the work plan across all implementing partners, identifying progress, gaps and acting on them timely.
Identify opportunities for integration and synergies within other sectors such as nutrition, health, alternative livelihoods, and governance.
Recognize opportunities for innovative action and create an environment where alternative viewpoints are welcomed; promote and model a culture of learning and adaptive management.
Work closely with the Climate Smart and Alternative Livelihoods and Inclusive Markets Advisors to develop tools and templates that model household economies under different scenarios and evaluate seasonal risk and recovery costs or opportunities.
Facilitate field teams in testing of profitable agriculture and resilient livelihood innovations with vulnerable households.
Work with Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG) partners to strengthen linkages with other actors to enhance organizational learning which directly impacts staff performance and productivity.
In the event of a natural disaster, lead design and budgeting of livelihood life-saving emergency, protection and recovery response activities.
Develop and implement capacity building plans for the County RL team including partners, including implementation quality and reporting.
Information Management and Reporting
Generate Implementation reports on the RL implementation while also supporting drafting of learnings and policy briefs, issues-papers and case studies on specific thematic issues, including integration.
Ensure USAID Nawiri is capturing the required level of participant information – including participant categories such as gender, adolescents, children, youth -as well as services provided and capture specific success stories.
Supporting the review of program reports and documents to provide a holistic view of diverse interventions
Lead reporting on implementation of county resilient livelihoods activities under the Field Director, .
Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills
Advanced degree in Agriculture, agribusiness management or agricultural economics
A minimum of 5 years experience in a technical role on an international development program related to livelihoods, food security and nutrition.
Demonstrated expertise and ability to lead and coordinate a diverse team drawn from different implementing partners.
Demonstrable familiarity with Kenya’s ASAL, agriculture crop and livestock, resilient livelihoods, and natural resources sectors political and policy environment.
Proficient analytical skills that demonstrate an understanding of the current concepts, priorities, and issues in program monitoring, data collection, and evaluation.
Highly developed written and oral communications skills as well as strong interpersonal communication and team building skills to ensure effective coordination within USAID and effective advocacy of Agency positions externally with both specialist as well as non-specialist audiences.
Advanced computer skills and experience developing data management systems.
Team player who takes initiative and is a problem-solver.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Mercy Corps Resilient Livelihoods Coordinator Jobs in Samburu
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