Agriculture and Livelihoods Assistant – National Position – Re-advertisement

[Baa’j,Iraq ]

Agriculture and Livelihoods Assistant Iraq Nineveh (Base Baaj – National)

Rights respected, People Protected

NRC in Iraq

Since the Government of Iraq declared that combat operations against the Islamic State group (IS) had ended in 2017, Iraq has been recovering from the significant damage and destruction caused by the armed conflict. Of the more than six million Iraqis who fled their homes since 2014, 4.5 million Iraqis have returned to their area of origin and 1.4 million remain internally displaced. Many Iraqis have returned to areas that lack basic infrastructure, services, and livelihood opportunities, or where explosive devices have not been cleared. Other challenges returnees and secondarily displaced people face include the lack of security, community acceptance, housing, property, and civil documentation issues as well as critical educational and health service gaps. Throughout this, Iraq continues to host over a quarter of a million Syrian refugees.

The UN estimates that more than 4.1 million Iraqis will need assistance in 2020, 1.77 million of them in acute need. With military operations against IS group having ended, the Iraqi government faces new challenges to ensure an inclusive reconstruction and reconciliation that will sustain peace.
Since 2010, NRC Iraq has been assisting internally displaced Iraqis, Syrian refugees, returnees, and host communities in Ninewa, Dohuk, Erbil, Kirkuk, Basra, Salahdeen, and Anbar Governorates.  

We focus on assisting the newly displaced, those experiencing protracted displacement in camps, and people returning to and living in hard-to-reach places by improving their chance of obtaining a durable solution.  NRC runs integrated programs across Iraq to respond to people in need using our shelter and settlements, education, camp management, legal assistance, livelihoods, and cash activities.

Role and responsibilities:

1. Supporting in the implementation of agriculture and livelihoods activities as requested by LM.
2. Supporting in the establishment of community development committees.
3. Providing training to community development committees, in addition to providing training and monitoring of community-driven activities.
4. Establish a strong working relationship with targeted communities, including local leaders and identification of local focal points
5. Implement beneficiary targeting and verification process for various activity streams
6. Implement/support beneficiary registrations
7. Support partners/contractors/trainers to implement agriculture and business-focused training programmes
8. Conducting cash or in-kind distribution for agricultural and livelihoods support.
9. Implement the NRC Community Engagement Approach
10. Conduct Focus Group Discussions, household surveys, and Key Informant Interviews, with assistants and enumerators
11. Work directly with enumerators and community focal points
12. Support with referrals to other NRC sectors or through external referral mechanisms
13. Reporting and providing the LM with regular progress and updates. 
14. Other relevant tasks requested by the line manager.

Competencies:

• One year experience as an assistant in a humanitarian/development programme
• Experience in using MS Excel, MS Office, and MS PowerPoint is essential
• Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Experience conducting beneficiary identification, verification, and registration
• Experience supporting referrals and/or identifying service providers
• Experience conducting focus groups, questionnaires, and surveys
• Fluent Arabic is required
• English will be an advantage

Other information:

• Contract Duration: 6 months ( with the possibility of extension)
• Duty Station: Nenawa – based Baaj with traveling 80% to Mosul and Sinjar.
• Health Insurance is provided 
• Salary: G4/S1, According to NRC’s Iraq salary scale and terms and conditions.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• NRC is an equal opportunity employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• For more information please read Job Description

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Agriculture and Livelihoods Assistant Iraq Nineveh (Baaj – National Position)