Deadline: 28 March, 2021
Location: Kakuma, Kenya
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is seeking to fill the role of Livelihoods Assistant, Agriculture.
DRC provides direct assistance to conflict-affected populations including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Responsibilities
- Support in conducting needs assessments and analysis of current agricultural activities
- Undertake beneficiary identification, registration and selection for the agricultural activities
- Train and advise farmers on matters related to vegetable production
- Plan and manage agricultural demonstration plots
- Implement a farm record management system and provide timely updates on progress status
- Support farmers on product marketing and selling of the produce to customers
- Report progress against workplans on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
- Build the capacity of farmers on post-harvest processing, including storage and packaging of farm produce
- Conduct in-service training for refugee-incentive staff
- Facilitate the distribution of farm tools
- Take part in budget monitoring and tracking of expenditure on agricultural activities
- Prepare and apply appropriate tools to be used for monitoring and reporting on beneficiaries’ progress
- Document success stories and project milestones as well as best practices
- Supervise the refugee community workers
Requirements
- Degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, or a related field
- Two years, minimum, of experience in setting up and implementing livelihoods or agriculture projects, preferably with an NGO in a refugee/IDP setting
- Good facilitation skills especially in vegetable production
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Working knowledge of MS Office and other relevant computer applications
- Understanding of business and development issues including group savings and loan approaches
- Ability to adapt to changing programme priorities and emergency priorities that may arise
- Strong self-starter with ability to take initiative
- Good planning and organisational skills coupled with problem-solving capabilities
- Hands-on community mobilisation skills
- Nationality of Kenya
- Knowledge of local language will be a plus
- Knowledge of English language and Kiswahili
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Danish Refugee Council
