Project Officer - Resilience, Baidoa

About the role

World Vision is hiring a Project Officer for its BMZ-TDA Project in Baidoa, focusing 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 position 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, cash flow, activity schedules, ITT updates and log frames, and prepare cash projections and requisitions.
• Coordinate food security, nutrition, livelihoods, DRR, peacebuilding and governance activities, and guide beneficiary targeting, registration and verification with gender, conflict and vulnerability sensitivity.
• Facilitate Farmer Field Schools, savings groups, disaster risk management committees, child protection committees, peace committees and women and girls safe spaces, and distribute agricultural inputs, livelihood assets and project materials.
• Organize training on economic development, vocational skills, business development, savings groups, financial literacy and climate-smart agriculture, and mentor community structures to take on more responsibility.
• Support nutrition-sensitive agriculture, household nutrition gardens, climate-smart agriculture demonstrations, and train community health workers and mother-to-mother groups on nutrition and IYCF.
• Engage with government, clusters and UN/NGO partners, update cluster reporting tools, and help develop fundraising materials with the communications department.
• Monitor, report and learn: field visits, data collection, baseline studies, indicator tracking and compliance with MEAL requirements.
• Support peacebuilding, grievance mechanisms and inclusive governance, and ensure compliance with World Vision 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 (preferably GFFO and BMZ).
• Experience with climate-resilient agriculture, irrigation, savings groups, market linkages and livelihood diversification; agro-pastoralist, farming and IDP community experience in 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

• MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint and technical drawing packages.
• Good verbal, visual and written communication and stakeholder networking skills.
• Leadership, analytical and facilitation skills.