Overview
The Livelihoods Officer will lead the implementation of Objective 4 of the IPEECL project, focusing on strengthening rural household livelihoods and resilience through diversified economic opportunities. The role addresses economic drivers of child labour by empowering vulnerable households, youth, and farmer groups.
Key Responsibilities
- Mobilize and support farmers to form or join smallholder producer associations and cooperatives.
- Facilitate training on collective marketing, bargaining power, and access to agricultural inputs.
- Link farmer groups to government extension services and private-sector buyers.
- Identify and map financial service providers and link vulnerable households and youth to government funding opportunities.
- Conduct financial literacy training for households and youth groups.
- Identify, mobilize, and refer out-of-school children and youth engaged in child labour to vocational training centres.
- Coordinate delivery of Life Skills for Success training for youth withdrawn from child labour.
- Support youth to access start-up capital, enterprise development support, or decent wage employment.
- Train and provide starter kits for vulnerable households in climate-resilient, diversified livelihood options.
- Establish and train VSLA groups and integrate an anticipatory fund mechanism.
- Train VSLA leadership on governance, record-keeping, and fund management.
- Identify and verify households eligible for shock-responsive cash transfers during emergencies.
- Coordinate with the MEAL team for post-distribution monitoring.
- Ensure cash transfers are linked to child protection outcomes.
- Work closely with the Child Protection Officer and Private Sector Engagement Officer.
- Collect and maintain accurate data for livelihoods indicators.
- Document success stories, case studies, and lessons learned.
- Contribute to monthly, quarterly, and annual donor reports.
- Participate in baseline and endline household surveys.
- Establish and maintain relationships with local government, financial service providers, private sector, and training institutions.
- Represent SCI in district-level livelihoods working groups and coordination meetings.
- Train VSLA mentors and community-based volunteers.
- Build the capacity of partner CSOs and farmer cooperative leaders.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of experience implementing livelihoods, resilience, or economic strengthening projects with an NGO, government, or private sector.
- Demonstrated experience establishing and training VSLAs, savings groups, or cooperatives.
- Experience implementing cash or voucher assistance (CVA), preferably shock-responsive or humanitarian cash.
- Experience delivering vocational skills training, life skills, or enterprise development for youth employment.
- Awareness of the link between household poverty, economic shocks, and child labour.
- Ability to train adults and youth on savings, budgeting, loans, and financial planning.
- Experience facilitating participatory training for farmers, youth, and community groups.
- Reporting Skills.
- Strong documentation and report-writing skills.
- Computer Literacy.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Experience with mobile data collection (KoboCollect, ODK is desirable).
- Logistics. Valid motorcycle riding permit and willingness to ride to remote communities.
- Commitment to safeguarding: Understanding of child safeguarding and PSEA principles.
- Experience working in coffee-growing communities or agricultural value chains (desirable).
- Experience with digital savings group platforms (desirable).
- CALP-certified in cash and voucher assistance (desirable).
- Experience with the Life Skills for Success common approach (desirable).
- Previous experience on child labour prevention projects (desirable).
Qualifications
- At least bachelor’s degree in agriculture economics, Agribusiness, Development Economics, Rural Development, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or a related field.
- Master's degree in a relevant discipline (desirable).
