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 open to local applicants only.

Key responsibilities

• Support project planning and implementation: DIPs, 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.
• Establish and strengthen Farmer Field Schools, savings groups, disaster risk management committees, child protection committees, peace committees and women and girls safe spaces.
• Organise training on economic development, vocational skills, business development, savings groups, financial literacy and climate-smart agriculture, and mentor community structures.
• Support nutrition-sensitive agriculture, household nutrition gardens, and train community health workers and mother-to-mother groups on nutrition and IYCF.
• Engage with clusters, government and UN/NGO partners, update cluster reporting tools, and help develop fundraising materials.
• Monitor, report and learn: field visits, data collection, baseline studies, indicator tracking and compliance with MEAL requirements.
• 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 climate-resilient agriculture, irrigation, savings groups, market linkages and agro-pastoralist, farming and IDP communities in Somalia is highly desirable.
• Understanding of accountability mechanisms, safeguarding, PSEA, gender equality, disability inclusion and conflict-sensitive programming.

Required skills

• MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint and technical drawing packages.
• Proposal writing and project reporting.
• Good verbal, visual and written communication and stakeholder networking.