Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
⦁ Support project team to conduct community mobilization, sensitization, and selection/verification of project beneficiaries based on pre-set criteria
⦁ Responsible for compilation of information on project implementation and reporting to the project coordinator on a regular basis
⦁ Ensure improved coordination by working closely with project livestock assistants and other team members and ensuring livestock activities are well coordinated with protection activities in terms of beneficiary selection and planning.
⦁ Communicate and engage with CBDMC members to support by providing a place for a livestock service canter.
⦁ Capacity building of para-vets and project staff in animal husbandry and animal health.
⦁ Development of animal husbandry, dairy, poultry, and artificial insemination manuals and training materials
⦁ Provide veterinary services and technical support to project beneficiaries
⦁ Market assessment to determine viable livelihood activities for livestock owners.
⦁ Cooperate on the distribution of livelihood inputs to promote livestock
⦁ Support and collaborate project coordinator on planning, implementation and further development of livelihood and livestock components.
⦁ Provide support to project staff in the delivery of livestock components.
⦁ Conduct meetings with all relevant project stakeholders at the district and provincial level
⦁ Support in poverty/food security assessments, beneficiary profiling and preparation of Food security and livelihood development plans for the individual beneficiaries.
⦁ Facilitate smooth delivery of veterinary services to the project beneficiaries
⦁ Diagnosis, survey, and reporting of diseases outbreaks in the target districts and in case of disease outbreak facilitate the provision of supply of medicine and vaccines.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning
⦁ Prepare and implement an action plan for quality monitoring
⦁ Mobilizing and Making communities aware of project objectives, outputs, activities, MEAL systems, and SCI Child Safeguarding Policies.
Partnership
⦁ Ensure personal commitment in building a constructive working relationship with partners based on SCI partnership principles spelled out in the Theory of Change
⦁ Support project manager on day-to-day handling of department tasks related to partners.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
⦁ Ensure that you work to the best of your ability and demonstrate high levels of commitment to SC Afghanistan in order to ensure the objectives of your role and the country program are met.
Ambition:
⦁ Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Save the Children resources in order to keep costs low and ensure safety in the workplace.
Creativity:
⦁ Lead, manage and motivate a team, ensuring that they have clear objectives and receive meaningful feedback on their performance.
Integrity:
Other duties as directed. (Obviously, this needs to only include duties that could be reasonably expected to be carried out by someone with the skills, experience and seniority associated with the job in question).
QUALIFICATIONS
Educational Qualification
University degree in Livestock or Agriculture/ Animal science
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
⦁ 2 to 3 years of experience in total in livelihood and food security program in the area of livestock & agriculture.
⦁ Background of livestock and veterinary (Cash/voucher transfer, agriculture, livestock, value chain, monitoring, and assessment)
⦁ Knowledge of market
⦁ Good communication skills
⦁ Problem-solving, analytical and negotiation skills
⦁ Computer literate
⦁ English proficiency in both speaking and writing.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties from time to time that is reasonable in relation to their level of skills and experience.
In the event of a significant humanitarian emergency, the post-holder will be expected to work outside their normal job description; vary their working hours, and occasionally work from a different location should the need arise.
Equal Opportunities
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to comply with these key policies, and other organizational policies and procedures, at all times
Health and Safety
The post holder is required to carry out their duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures and our Global Security policy and procedures.