Title: Livelihood Officer
Organization:RefugePoint - Nairobi
Start Date: 1 March 2013
Reports to: Nairobi Protection Manager
The primary responsibility of the Livelihood Officer is to
implement RefugePoint’s pilot refugee livelihood program as part of the
Protection Unit in Nairobi.
The position involves empowering and equipping refugees to
engage in successful livelihood activities to improve self-sufficiency, wellbeing
and integration.
In addition to livelihood related duties, the Livelihood Officer
is expected to carry out identification, assessment, referral (IAR) and case
management duties for RefugePoint clients.
This position reports directly to the Protection Manager.
Core responsibilities and duties of the positions are as
follows:
1. Livelihood Program Direct Service Provision: Support refugee
clients to engage in sustainable livelihood activities
a. Assess individual client’s skills and potential to engage in
livelihood activities;
b. Assist individual client to map out a unique business plan;
c. Equip client with necessary small business skills to
successfully initiate small business activities;
d. Meet with client regularly to continue to build skills,
address challenges and monitor progress;
e. Support clients to exit from livelihood program.
2. Livelihood Program Development: Participate in design,
monitoring and evaluation of pilot livelihood model
a. Refine existing market analysis tool, guide for small
business skills capacity building sessions, and assessment and monitoring
tools;
b. Provide weekly reports to Protection Manager
3. Livelihood Partnership Building:
a. Develop interagency partnerships and referral pathways with refugee
and development agencies;
b. Represent RefugePoint at the Refugee Livelihood Working Group
meetings
4. Case Management:
a. Meet regularly with clients to provide emotional, problem
solving and action planning to assist in the client’s stabilization and
recovery;
b. Conduct home visits and reviews for clients every 6 months.
c. Participate in regular inter-unit case management meetings to
coordinate provision of medical, counselling and protection services for each
client;
5. Ensure the highest standards of professionalism (throughout
all above activities):
a. Adhere to RefugePoint’s code of conduct, Standard Operating
Procedures guiding principles and uphold the highest professional ethical
obligations;
b. Embrace a learning attitude to continually improve
professionally;
c. Meet deadlines consistently, resolve challenges in a
collaborative manner, maintain responsive lines of communication with various
levels of management and staff;
6. Any other duties as assigned by the Protection Manager.
Required Skills and Expertise for this position:
- Degree in
development studies, social work or other related field;
- More than 2
years experience directly implementing livelihood programming with
refugees;
- Experience with
small business/income generating activities and micro-finance programming
preferred;
- Experience
assisting refugees and asylum seekers in an urban environment preferred;
- Experience
working with the Somali, Ethiopian, or Congolese refugee population
preferred.
- Excellent case
work skills to professionally assist clients who have survived torture,
sexual violence, discrimination and persecution;
- Commitment to
rights based, empowerment based approach to refugee work. Comfortable
working in multicultural environment.
- Excellent computer
skills;
- Excellent
written and spoken English, spoken Kiswahili and other languages (Somali,
Oromo, Kinyamulenge, Kinyarwanda preferred);
- Kenyan nationals
only to apply.
How to apply: Please submit CV and cover letter, including 3 references, as a
single attachment to hr@refugepoint.org.
Application deadline: Friday, February 22 2013.
Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
