Project Officer - Resilience, Luuq

About the role

World Vision is hiring a Project Officer for its BMZ-TDA Project in Luuq, focused 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 Luuq, Jubaland State, with occasional domestic travel, and is a local fixed-term position.

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- and conflict-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.
• Disseminate early warning information, strengthen links between communities, extension services and markets, and participate in cluster coordination and reporting.
• Monitor, report and learn: field visits, data collection, baseline studies, surveys, evaluations, and monthly, quarterly, annual and donor reports.
• Facilitate community dialogues, grievance mechanisms and inclusive decision-making, and uphold safeguarding, child protection and PSEA standards.

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.
• 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.

Required skills

• Climate-smart agriculture: Farmer Field Schools, GAP, crop production, seed systems and farmer capacity strengthening.
• Livelihood diversification: savings groups (S4T/VSLA), youth enterprises, beekeeping, fodder production, vocational training and business development.
• Computer literacy in MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint and technical drawing packages.
• Proposal writing and project reporting.