• Application Deadline:
• Position: Livelihood Officer



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 1 year



• Location Nigeria




• Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied 
  
  

Position Summary

• The Livelihood Officer will provide technical and programmatic support to crisis-affected families and communities to design and implement sustainable, community-based livelihood initiatives.


• The role focuses on promoting employment opportunities, enhancing vocational skills, and supporting income-generating activities to reduce vulnerabilities and
  
  build resilience.


• He/She will work closely with caregivers, youth, and young adults to strengthen their livelihood capacity, enabling sustainable income generation and self-reliance even in emergency contexts.


• Priority will be given to interventions that deliver immediate or short-
  
  term improvements in household socio-economic well-being, while laying the foundation for longer-term recovery and resilience.

Responsibilities

• The livelihood officer will give Priority attention to interventions that would have immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic wellbeing, aiming to reduce their vulnerability; e.g. access to start-up support for job creation, access to low-interest loans for micro-business development, individual skills training, targeted vocational or entrepreneurship training, job placement, internship, business expansion support, etc.


• Support families to identify ‘gaps’ in attaining self-reliance while linking it to the keys to self-reliance based on the development needs of each child within their care


• Support families to establish set goals, milestones with timelines and develop actionable plans to achieve the defined set goals to address the identified gaps


• Ensure that the organisation keeps its commitments, in terms of support services committed to in the FDPs action plans;


• Empower families to have improved household income to actively support the development of their children and be self-reliant


• Support young adults and caregivers in setting up viable small-medium scale businesses with good business plans and link them to other funding sources for business scaling-up and expansion


• Implement skills-based innovative sustainable livelihood community initiatives that have a direct and immediate or short-term positive effect on the family’s socio-economic activities, aiming to reduce the family’s vulnerability and increase their chances of being self-reliant


• Identify weaknesses and strengths in the livelihoods activities and map the best way forward to enhance strengths and mitigate adverse impacts or weaknesses;


• Ensure gatekeeping and case management guidelines are followed in providing specifically tailored interventions targeted at supporting families to attain self-reliance


• Conduct activities in a community- and rights-based, participatory manner, maintaining an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD), and conflict-sensitive approach for community engagement


• Ensure timely and quality progress and financial reporting by partners in line with agreed templates and schedules


• Monitor programme implementation of partners (contractors, consultants, grantees) in accordance with agreements, work plans, deliverables, and timelines


• Carry out regular reviews of the situation of the families and the support provided to them by the programme


• Contribute to the realisation of sustainable income generation for families to provide quality care and protection for their children

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Agriculture, Business Administration,
  
  Development Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field (Master’s degree is an advantage).


• Minimum of 1 year experience in emergency response programming and working with vulnerable populations.


• Knowledge of market systems development, micro-enterprise, and vocational training approaches.


• Familiarity with donor-funded projects and humanitarian standards.


• Strong project design, implementation, and monitoring skills.


• Excellent facilitation, training, and community mobilization abilities.


• Competence in conducting needs assessments and market analysis.


• Good communication, negotiation, and partnership-building skills.


• Ability to manage data, prepare reports, and ensure accountability.


• Computer literacy (MS Office, data collection/analysis tools).


• Commitment to humanitarian principles, child safeguarding, and protection standards.


• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and analytical thinking.


• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-sectoral team.


• High cultural sensitivity, empathy, and inclusiveness.


• Flexibility, resilience, and capacity to adapt to rapidly changing emergency contexts