Project Officer - Resilience, Baidoa

About the role

World Vision is hiring a Project Officer for its BMZ-TDA Project in Baidoa, Somalia, which focuses on food and nutrition security and climate-resilient livelihoods for vulnerable agro-pastoral and IDP communities. The officer coordinates climate-smart agriculture, farmer field schools, irrigation, livelihood diversification, savings groups, market linkages, early warning and disaster risk reduction, and supports peacebuilding, social cohesion and inclusive local governance. The post is office-based in Baidoa with occasional domestic travel, and is open to local applicants only.

Key responsibilities

• Support project planning and implementation: detailed implementation plans, procurement plans, quarterly cash flow, activity schedules, ITT updates and log frames.
• Coordinate food security, nutrition, livelihoods, DRR, peacebuilding, governance and protection activities, and prepare cash projections and requisitions.
• Strengthen Farmer Field Schools, savings groups, community disaster risk management committees, child protection committees, peace committees and women and girls safe spaces, ensuring transparent beneficiary targeting and gender-sensitive resource allocation.
• Distribute agricultural inputs, livelihood assets and vocational packages, and train communities on economic development, vocational skills, savings groups, financial literacy and business development.
• Implement nutrition-sensitive agriculture, household nutrition gardens, climate-smart agriculture demonstrations and training of community health workers and mother-to-mother groups on nutrition and IYCF.
• Facilitate community dialogues, grievance mechanisms and inclusive decision-making, and coordinate cluster reporting and coordination with government, UN and other partners.
• Monitor, report and learn: field visits, data collection, baseline studies, evaluations, and monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
• Ensure compliance with donor requirements, World Vision safeguarding, child protection and PSEA standards, and promote accountability to communities.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in agriculture, rural development, environmental science, natural resource management, disaster risk management, community development, development studies or a related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience implementing resilience, food security, livelihoods, climate adaptation, DRR or community development programmes.
• Experience with NGOs, INGOs, local authorities and community-based structures, and managing donor-funded projects (GFFO and BMZ preferred).
• Experience with agro-pastoralist, farming, IDP and host communities in drought- or flood-affected or conflict-affected areas of Somalia is highly desirable.
• Understanding of accountability mechanisms, safeguarding, PSEA, gender equality, disability inclusion and conflict-sensitive programming.
• Proven proposal writing and project reporting experience.

Required skills

• Climate-smart agriculture, Farmer Field Schools, GAP, improved seed systems and livelihood diversification (S4T/VSLA, youth enterprises, beekeeping, fodder, vocational training).
• MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint and technical drawing packages.
• Good verbal, visual and written communication and stakeholder networking skills.