Job Detail

Generic responsibilities:

• Supervise and manage the work of the LFS officer and LFS team as a whole.
• Build a strong and productive LFS team spirit – promoting values of responsibility, respect, trust, inclusiveness, solidarity, and collaboration with other NRC departments.
• Foster a strong sense of collaboration between the LFS team and other departments within the central Area Office.
• Working with the APM, LFS Specialist and LFS advisor, build the capacity of the central LFS team – as per each staff members’ needs –through on-the-job training, formal trainings, exposure visits to other area offices, etc.
• Proactively share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in LFS activities with the central and east Area Program Manager and LFS Specialist.
• Immediately flag any challenges or delays to the central and east area program Manager and LFS Specialist.
• Contribute to the development of Country, Area and LFS Core Competency strategies.
• Coordinate and manage LFS project implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Adhere to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.

Specific responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of all LFS projects in the central and east region, including:
  • Managing budgets and tracking expenditures on a monthly basis.
  • Reporting project progress on a monthly basis and providing inputs for donor reports as required.
  • Overseeing the beneficiary selection process, according to guidelines set by the LFS Specialist, and ensuring that the selection process is done with the highest level of transparency, fairness and rigor.
  • Ensuring that project activities are being implemented on schedule, and with a high level of quality.
  • Ensuring that monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data collection is carried out on schedule, with a high level of quality, using the appropriate data collection tools.
• Be an active member of the LFS community in the central Region, including through building good working relationships with relevant government line department (Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), Ministry of Economy), and participating and actively contributing to regional Food Security and Agriculture (FSAC) meetings, Agriculture and livelihoods working groups, cash voucher working group etc.
• Engage and build good relationships with private sector stakeholders relevant to LFS projects – such as the Kabul Chamber of Commerce, local trader’s associations, large businesses etc.
• Ensure the inclusion of cash-based interventions and marked based programming in country and area-based strategies and their implementation across and within NRC’s core competencies.
• Supporting NRC’s Agriculture based -food production development emergency project in the target areas of the CEAO.  
• Support NRC’s climate resilience and Drought response, and the component of the project which includes ( livestock support through provision of Animal Feed, animal vaccination, rehabilitation of irrigation system, Kariz and canals, support to forestry and agriculture management system, Income generation activities and trade-faire support to the beneficiaries( Khost and Jalalabad).
• Support NRC’s private sector livelihood initiatives including start-up supports and apprenticeship programs.
• Leading Good Agricultural Practices for Staple vegetable crops and as extension methodology and the introduction of staple food crops, off-season production as well as exploring opportunities and models for contract farming.
• Supporting youth to establish small businesses.
• Partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to create salaried jobs for NRC’s target beneficiaries.
• Building infrastructure which creates jobs, improves the market functionality and business activity of peri-urban areas.
• Fostering expansion of irrigation and field water management.
• Supporting vulnerable farmers for improved food and nutrition security, resilience, and emergency response to natural and man-made disasters and climate change.
• Leading market assessment, price monitoring, data analysis, and designing market based programming, integrated and cash based programming considering NRC Market based programming guidelines.
• Support NRC’s cash based intervention and ensure safe cash programming in the central and east area.
• Ensure monitoring of food security and livelihood projects (field visit, regular programme monitoring, budget forecast, staff evaluation and planning, donors reports, monthly reports, etc.).
• Ensure the preparation and writing of food security and livelihood proposals and donor reports (log frame, narrative, and budget) together with the FSL team and in link with the support team.
• Closely coordinate and collaborate with other technical departments (Shelter, Camp Management, Water and Sanitation) to ensure integrated projects.
• Performs any other task as assigned by supervisor.