Summary
Date Posted: Friday, February 21 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About the Country Program in Zambia
Action Against Hunger has been operational in Zambia since 2021 implementing both development and humanitarian programmes through a multi-sectoral strategy where Nutrition, Health, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH and Protection, Gender and psychosocial support are integrated to have a meaningful impact on people’s resilience.

Summary of position
As a member of the Action Against Hunger Lusaka, Zambia Team, the Food Security & Livelihoods Coordinator will provide technical and oversight support to the Food Security, Livelihoods, Resilience, Disaster Risk Management interventions, and be part of the broader Food Security & Livelihoods initiatives at the Country, regional and network levels.

Purpose:
The Food Security & Livelihoods Coordinator provides technical leadership and operational support to the food security and livelihoods portfolio in the Zambia for improved nutrition security.

Key Activities to be performed.
• Engage with technical and operations teams, country program teams, and counterparts in the Action Against Hunger network to for improved nutrition security.
• Represent Action Against Hunger lusaka, Zambia in relevant internal and regional external fora and working groups.
• Regularly contribute to External Relations (ER)/ communication efforts, press releases and other documentation at regional level
• Facilitate FSL information, experiences and case studies to ER/communications for public communications, website materials at regional level.
• Advance Action Against Hunger Lusaka, Zambia FSL advocacy strategy and messages at regional level and country level
• Provision of technical support to food security and livelihoods Interventions – strategy, conceptualization, planning, implementation and reporting.
• Promote and ensure compliance to Action Against Hunger technical guidelines, policies, manuals, position papers and procedures related to Food Security and Livelihoods.
• Promote and ensure compliance of country programs to Action Against Hunger mainstreamed approaches around Social Behavior Change, Disaster Risk Management, Gender and Protection in Food security and Livelihood interventions.
• Ensure secondary analysis of existing or proposed programs to ensure relevance, impact, viability, sustainability and quality of the action.
• Ensure documentation, capitalization and dissemination of program experiences, statistics and lessons learned.
• Facilitate the identification of innovation and research opportunities together with the country program team and research team.
• Inform Action Against Hunger lusaka, Zambia’s Regional Strategy and departmental objectives
• Identifying and engaging in coordination with AAH-US senior FSL advisors with other agencies &/or partners in FSL in East Africa to ensure up-to-date programming, tools, technical developments and innovations
• Lead the design and development of multi-countries / regional FSL opportunities with inputs from the country teams.
• Identify funding opportunities for programming at regional level which contribute to Action Against Hunger-lusaka, Zambia’s overall strategy and development
• Advise in the recruitment of FSL technical field practitioners by providing a technical assessment of each candidate’s skills & experience
• Advise and inform the development of FSL related JDs for mission technical positions.
• Facilitate briefing/debriefing of FSL technical staff for Action Against Hunger Lusaka, Zambia’s country programs.
• Identify the on-going learning and development needs of FSL technical country coordinators, and assist in providing or supporting their professional development.

Required Qualifications
• Master’s degree in food security, Agricultural Education and Extension, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness Management, Food Policy and Applied food science, socio politics, or related topics
• At least ten years’ experience in food systems, nutrition sensitive agriculture, Livelihoods and Resilience.
• Membership with a relevant professional body

Required Skills & Experience
• Experience working in humanitarian and development contexts, recovery and rehabilitation as well as with national governments, regional bodies, UN agencies and INGOs.
• Excellent knowledge of technical fields related to Food Security & Livelihoods that includes excellent working knowledge of food security, Market systems and nutrition sensitive resilience.
• Sound analytical and technical competence in the subject matter of food security and livelihoods
• Field experience in FSL programming, including agro ecology, value chain analysis, income generation, emergency food assistance, COD, HEA, etc.
• Strong analytical and writing skills essential.
• Knowledge and experience in assessment and research methods.
• Strong organizational skills and technical review/writing of detailed technical documents.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Capacity to represent the organization in various fora.
• Genuine interest in and commitment to the humanitarian principles of Action Against Hunger


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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