Job Title	Field Supervisor  (1)
Reporting To	Project Manager
Location	Galkacyo districts, Galmudug region, Somalia
Duration	5 months
Closing Date	01 Nov 2022

Organisational context

 Development and Empowerment for Humanity (DEH) is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation founded in 2004 and based in Somalia to work with communities to break the vicious cycle of poverty through innovative community-owned solutions to achieve long-term wellbeing. At DEH, we believe that the local communities are experts in their situations. Therefore, empowering and working with them is key to achieving sustainable economic progress, inclusive society, and environmental security. For the past 17 years, DEH has strengthened rural livelihood assets through innovative humanitarian initiatives, continuous community training, and knowledge transfer. We have responded to several humanitarian emergencies in South and Central Somalia by providing aid to the population affected by conflicts and natural crises with emergency relief, health care, nutrition services, clean water, and sustainable socio-economic programs in a multi-sectoral based approach. 

With Funding from Somalia Humanitarian fund (SHF), DEH is implementing a project titled: Provision of life-saving and life-sustaining support to vulnerable pastoralist households in rural Galkacyo to access food and avert livelihood depletion. 

The overall project’s objective is to improve food and nutrition security to save lives and restore livelihoods of the drought-affected vulnerable pastoral  households’ members including women and children in rural Galkacyo, Mudug region through the timely provision of unconditional cash transfers and livestock input distribution.

Roles and responsibilities

 

• Implement, monitor, and evaluate the assigned project with support from Project Coordinator.
• Provide technical support and leadership to the project team, manage, delegate and train staff to meet quality standards.
• Anticipate, plan, and contribute to the development of the project activities and reporting
• Participate to meetings with relevant stakeholders to contribute to a good coordination between NGOs and local actors.
• Conduct community consultations and lead the site selection process.
• Ensure continual improvement based on priorities identified through monitoring & evaluation activities.
• Oversee selection of beneficiaries with communities explaining selection criteria and agreed beneficiary lists.
• Lead the preparation of all documents related to distributions and monitoring (distribution vouchers, reporting forms, checklists, Tally sheet, etc.) needed to capture all data required for quality management, indicator tracking and reporting
• Oversee and carry out voucher distribution activities
• Ensure cash transfer activities occur smoothly by supervising Hawala payments
• Host team meetings as necessary to facilitate projects problem solve and completes tasks according to project timeframe.

Qualifications & Experience Required Education

·   University degree in food security, Economics/ any other relevant field, or equivalent
experience.

·     Experience in cash transfer projects/distribution (at least 2 years)

·     Experience in writing reports in English

·     Experience in logistics (supply chain, procurement, market assessment)

·    Strong organizational and analytical skills and ability to work well under pressure
and with minimal supervision.

·  Strong interpersonal and community mobilization skills. Highly motivated, and
flexible.

·   Excellent verbal and written skills in English and Somali.

·  Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.

Expected competencies    

   

·    Ability to establish priorities, plan, coordinate and organize own work plan; 

·    Resourcefulness, initiative, maturity, tact, advocacy skills; 

·    Excellent analytical, conceptual, communication and public speaking skills; 

·   Ability to establish and maintain good working relations with people of different
national and cultural backgrounds

 

Language proficiency

Working knowledge of English and Somali language.

How to apply

Interested persons should submit their application and CV to the following Email addresses: careers@deh-africa.org indicating the position title and location in the subject line. 

The closing date for receiving proposals is November 01 2022. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.

 

The assessment of the proposals received will be on a continuous basis due to urgency to fill the position.