Reporting Lines
Under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative in Somalia and the direct supervision of Resilience Coordinator.
Technical Focus
The post holder shall be field based international specialist, a senior Project Officer in Resilience Unit who will support and lead project implementation under the guidance and leadership of Resilience Coordinator.
Tasks and responsibilities
Support the Resilience Coordinator and Resilience Unit in the following program management tasks:
• Manage project performance metric tracking to ensure projects delivery on target, one time and on budget.
• Support the development of resilience project documents in close consultation with FAO Somalia’s technical teams and SMRU.
• Distil and share key program information to contribute to briefs and other strategic information products with a focus on FAO Somalia’s resilience programme
• Support formation and implementation of resilience program framework for all projects
• Ensure the alignment of projects to CPF and reporting to Information Management on indicators.
• Ensure alignment of projects to UNCF & MAF and reporting on these indicators to UN SRSG & FGS
• Follow up with ROs/PMs on performance and resourcing issues to ensure project and program delivery.
• Collaborate with operations, procurement, finance and human resources to ensure enabling environment for delivery.
• Proactively engage with FAO s and Emergency units to layer activities for increased resilience program impact
• Carry out duty travel to Somalia, with likely extended periods of stay in Somalia as needed.
• Perform other program management duties as assigned.
Effective management of mitigation efforts to Drought, Floods and Conflicts
• Develop appropriate measures and actions aimed at reducing the vulnerability to drought, floods, conflicts and reducing their impacts.
• Develop drought / flood / conflict mitigation, preparedness, and response strategies for implementing partners, government ministries and community organizations.
• Determine appropriate mitigation and response actions aimed at drought, flood and conflict risk reduction.
• Identify appropriate triggers to phase in and phase out mitigation actions, particularly short-term actions, during drought, flood and conflicts onset and termination.
• Identify agencies or ministries or organizations to develop and implement drought, flood and conflict mitigation actions.
• Ensure mainstreaming of conflict sensitivity and do no harm approach in resilience building programs.
Resilience Project Cycle Management Support
Ensure that resilience projects follow the FAO project cycle phases and critical deliverables in each phase as follows:
1.Project identification
• Support Resilience Coordinator and other team members to identify and develop projects aligned to CPF framework, resilience program framework & UNCF
• Support in the development of CN and budgets for projects in collaboration with SRMU & FAO sectors
2. Project Formulation:
• Support and collaborate with SMRU, Operations & M&E on development of proposal documents
• Facilitate internal and external technical and program clearance for proposal and budget
3. Project implementation:
• Facilitate kick-off meeting for inception phase with all FAO stakeholders.
• Staffing & procurement planning with for project (s) assigned to them
• Support on LoU & LoA development, implementation & tracking under the assigned projects
• Project performance tracking and follow up on performance and resourcing issues
• Collaboration with SMRU on project reporting and communications to represent the project progress and success to internal & external stakeholders
4. Project Evaluation:
• Collaborate with M&E Unit on the formulation of evaluation scope
• Collaborate with M&E Unit on the validation and finalization of evaluation findings.
5. Project Closure:
• Work on closure of LoAs & LoU for the projects under his/her management
• Facilitate project hand over to government and/or community of project
• Collaborate with other team members, Operations and Finance to ensure financial closure and assets
• Collaborate with other team members & SMRU to ensure final reporting is complete
University degree (Bachelor) in Agriculture, Forestry, Veterinary, Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation or any other field related to the work of the organization.
• At least five (5) years of relevant work experience in large and complex projects that combines emergency response, disaster risk reduction, project formulation and implementation.
• Working knowledge (level C) of English and limited knowledge (level B) of French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese or Russian. For PSAs working knowledge (Level C) of English.
• To apply, visit the recruitment website at Jobs at FAO and complete your online profile. We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, and language skills
• Candidates are requested to attach a letter of motivation to the online profile
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application
• Candidates may be requested to provide performance assessments and authorization to conduct verification checks of past and present work, character, education, military and police records to ascertain any and all information which may be pertinent to the employment qualifications
• Incomplete applications will not be considered
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• Only applications received through the FAO recruitment portal will be considered
• Your application will be screened based on the information provided in your online profile
• We encourage applicants to submit the application well before the deadline date.
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