Livelihood Officer _ Sponser Ship Project

The Livelihood Officer will oversee all livelihood-related activities within the Sponsorship project at Save the Children International. The role involves coordinating, implementing, and reporting on project interventions, working closely with partners and stakeholders to ensure quality and sustainable program delivery.

Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager in planning, coordinating, and overseeing livelihood interventions implemented through partners, ensuring compliance with project objectives, donor requirements, and Save the Children standards.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and capacity strengthening to partner staff to improve the quality and sustainability of livelihood interventions.
• Support partner-led community outreach and beneficiary engagement activities, ensuring appropriate targeting, inclusion, and participation of vulnerable groups.
• Monitor partner performance through field visits, regular review meetings, and progress monitoring, ensuring timely implementation and quality delivery of activities.
• Oversee the quality of livelihood interventions, including life skills, employability and business skills training, vocational training, entrepreneurship support, business plan assessments, seed funding, and post-grant business follow-up.
• Strengthen partnerships with private sector actors, vocational training providers, and other stakeholders to expand sustainable employment, entrepreneurship, and referral opportunities for beneficiaries.
• Lead sustainability and exit planning by supporting partners to institutionalize approaches, strengthen local ownership, and establish linkages that ensure continuity of services beyond the project.
• Collaborate with technical sectors, including Child Protection, Education, Health and MEAL, to promote integrated programming and effective referral pathways.
• Review partner work plans, reports, and deliverables, ensuring compliance with partnership agreements, donor requirements, safeguarding standards, and quality benchmarks.
• Contribute to project planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, learning, and documentation of good practices and lessons learned.
• Represent Save the Children in coordination meetings, partner review sessions, and technical forums, and perform other duties assigned by the Project Manager to support effective project implementation and responsible closure.
• Document livelihood interventions/activities, lessons learnt and experience resulting from the project.
• Contribute to the writing of regular and ad hoc reports related to the livelihood sector.
• Coordinate with MEAL person to support in project assessment activities.
• Compile concise quantitative and qualitative reports on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Support in quality budget phasing, monitoring, and utilization, participates in cost/benefit assessment for all Livelihood activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in development, economics, commerce, international development or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in livelihoods, poverty reduction programming in a reputed organization or NGO.
• Previous work with refugees/asylum seekers or displaced migrants is a must.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing and negotiation.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets.
• Very good computer skills.
• Report writing skills and English proficiency is required.
• Good knowledge of Child Safeguarding will be an added advantage.
• Commitment to Save the Children International values.

Skills

• Livelihood Programming
• Poverty Reduction Programming
• Refugee Assistance
• Displaced Migrants Support
• Interpersonal Communication
• Negotiation
• Results Orientation
• Computer Skills
• Report Writing
• Child Safeguarding

Languages

English