Livelihood Officer(s)
2025-10-06T08:13:58+00:00
The Strategies For Northern Development
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FULL_TIME
Loyangalani & Illeret
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Nonprofit, and NGO
Management
2025-10-10T17:00:00+00:00
Kenya
8
Key Competence:
- Bachelor’s degree in Fisheries, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Community Development, Business Development, or related field.
- At least 3–5 years’ experience in livelihood development, fisheries, agriculture, or related sectors in ASAL contexts.
- Strong background in community mobilization and capacity building.
- Experience with financial inclusion (VSLAs, SACCOs) and market linkage facilitation.
- Proven ability to integrate gender equality, youth empowerment, and conflict-sensitive approaches.
- Good understanding of pastoralist and fishing community dynamics in Marsabit/Turkana is an added advantage.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, training, and facilitation skills.
- Proficiency in monitoring tools (KoboCollect, Power BI) is desirable.
- Fluency in English and Kiswahili; knowledge of local languages (Rendille, Turkana, Dasanach) is an asset.
- Ability to prioritize own workload and work with minimal supervision.
- Be a team player.
- Be self-driven and able to work within tight deadlines.
- Detailed-oriented, dependable, productive, flexible and able to handle multiple concurrent tasks.
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Livelihood Officer will support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of livelihood interventions around Lake Turkana. S/he will directly engage with fishing communities, Beach Management Units (BMUs), women and youth groups, private sector actors, and county stakeholders to strengthen sustainable livelihood opportunities, market linkages, and community resilience.
Other Roles and Responsibilities:
- Mobilize and engage communities in Loyangalani/Illeret to participate in project activities.
- Support the development and promotion of climate-smart and diversified livelihoods (fisheries, poultry, beekeeping, basketry, bead-making, etc.).
- Strengthen governance and operations of BMUs and Farmer Service Centres (FSCs).
- Facilitate access to finance through VSLAs, SACCOs, and other inclusive mechanisms.
- Organize and support market linkages between fisherfolk, producers, and buyers.
- Coordinate and deliver capacity-building sessions (fish handling, value addition, business development, financial literacy).
- Integrate gender-transformative approaches and ensure the meaningful participation of women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
- Promote social cohesion through conflict-sensitive programming and peacebuilding activities.
- Collect and document data, case studies, and success stories to track project progress.
- Ensure compliance with safeguarding, PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), and child protection standards.
- Foster stakeholder collaboration with County Government, the private sector and local institutions.
- Represent the organization in the stakeholders forums, like Sub County and county steering group meetings.
- Writing and sharing of field visit/mission report and the monthly activity implementation reports with supervisor.
- Maintain regular interaction with stakeholders with the objective of collecting information on ongoing and planned activities.
- Collect information and analyze information on context for livelihoods.
- Ensure timely and quality progress and reporting in line with agreed templates and schedules; review reports; provide feedback to the donor.
- Ensure systematic documentation and.
How to Apply:
Letter of applications along with a copy of your resume, a contact telephone number, copies of Academic certificates, professional certificates, testimonials and the names of 3 referees preferably from your previous work places, quoting their email addresses/contact numbers properly and Clearly label/quote the job title above on your envelope addressed to Human Resource Officer and hand deliver to the SND Marsabit/Mycale Office or via email: jobs@sndafrica.org. Deadline for the submission of application is 10th October 2025 5:00 PM
Mobilize and engage communities in Loyangalani/Illeret to participate in project activities.
Support the development and promotion of climate-smart and diversified livelihoods (fisheries, poultry, beekeeping, basketry, bead-making, etc.).
Strengthen governance and operations of BMUs and Farmer Service Centres (FSCs).
Facilitate access to finance through VSLAs, SACCOs, and other inclusive mechanisms.
Organize and support market linkages between fisherfolk, producers, and buyers.
Coordinate and deliver capacity-building sessions (fish handling, value addition, business development, financial literacy).
Integrate gender-transformative approaches and ensure the meaningful participation of women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
Promote social cohesion through conflict-sensitive programming and peacebuilding activities.
Collect and document data, case studies, and success stories to track project progress.
Ensure compliance with safeguarding, PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), and child protection standards.
Foster stakeholder collaboration with County Government, the private sector and local institutions.
Represent the organization in the stakeholders forums, like Sub County and county steering group meetings.
Writing and sharing of field visit/mission report and the monthly activity implementation reports with supervisor.
Maintain regular interaction with stakeholders with the objective of collecting information on ongoing and planned activities.
Collect information and analyze information on context for livelihoods.
Ensure timely and quality progress and reporting in line with agreed templates and schedules; review reports; provide feedback to the donor.
Ensure systematic documentation and.
Bachelor’s degree in Fisheries, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Community Development, Business Development, or related field.
At least 3–5 years’ experience in livelihood development, fisheries, agriculture, or related sectors in ASAL contexts.
Strong background in community mobilization and capacity building.
Experience with financial inclusion (VSLAs, SACCOs) and market linkage facilitation.
Proven ability to integrate gender equality, youth empowerment, and conflict-sensitive approaches.
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Vacancy title:
Livelihood Officer(s)
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management]
Jobs at:
The Strategies For Northern Development
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, October 10 2025
Duty Station:
Loyangalani & Illeret | Nairobi | Kenya
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, October 6 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Key Competence:
- Bachelor’s degree in Fisheries, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Community Development, Business Development, or related field.
- At least 3–5 years’ experience in livelihood development, fisheries, agriculture, or related sectors in ASAL contexts.
- Strong background in community mobilization and capacity building.
- Experience with financial inclusion (VSLAs, SACCOs) and market linkage facilitation.
- Proven ability to integrate gender equality, youth empowerment, and conflict-sensitive approaches.
- Good understanding of pastoralist and fishing community dynamics in Marsabit/Turkana is an added advantage.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, training, and facilitation skills.
- Proficiency in monitoring tools (KoboCollect, Power BI) is desirable.
- Fluency in English and Kiswahili; knowledge of local languages (Rendille, Turkana, Dasanach) is an asset.
- Ability to prioritize own workload and work with minimal supervision.
- Be a team player.
- Be self-driven and able to work within tight deadlines.
- Detailed-oriented, dependable, productive, flexible and able to handle multiple concurrent tasks.
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Livelihood Officer will support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of livelihood interventions around Lake Turkana. S/he will directly engage with fishing communities, Beach Management Units (BMUs), women and youth groups, private sector actors, and county stakeholders to strengthen sustainable livelihood opportunities, market linkages, and community resilience.
Other Roles and Responsibilities:
- Mobilize and engage communities in Loyangalani/Illeret to participate in project activities.
- Support the development and promotion of climate-smart and diversified livelihoods (fisheries, poultry, beekeeping, basketry, bead-making, etc.).
- Strengthen governance and operations of BMUs and Farmer Service Centres (FSCs).
- Facilitate access to finance through VSLAs, SACCOs, and other inclusive mechanisms.
- Organize and support market linkages between fisherfolk, producers, and buyers.
- Coordinate and deliver capacity-building sessions (fish handling, value addition, business development, financial literacy).
- Integrate gender-transformative approaches and ensure the meaningful participation of women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
- Promote social cohesion through conflict-sensitive programming and peacebuilding activities.
- Collect and document data, case studies, and success stories to track project progress.
- Ensure compliance with safeguarding, PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), and child protection standards.
- Foster stakeholder collaboration with County Government, the private sector and local institutions.
- Represent the organization in the stakeholders forums, like Sub County and county steering group meetings.
- Writing and sharing of field visit/mission report and the monthly activity implementation reports with supervisor.
- Maintain regular interaction with stakeholders with the objective of collecting information on ongoing and planned activities.
- Collect information and analyze information on context for livelihoods.
- Ensure timely and quality progress and reporting in line with agreed templates and schedules; review reports; provide feedback to the donor.
- Ensure systematic documentation and.
How to Apply:
Letter of applications along with a copy of your resume, a contact telephone number, copies of Academic certificates, professional certificates, testimonials and the names of 3 referees preferably from your previous work places, quoting their email addresses/contact numbers properly and Clearly label/quote the job title above on your envelope addressed to Human Resource Officer and hand deliver to the SND Marsabit/Mycale Office or via email: jobs@sndafrica.org. Deadline for the submission of application is 10th October 2025 5:00 PM
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure
How to Apply:
Letter of applications along with a copy of your resume, a contact telephone number, copies of Academic certificates, professional certificates, testimonials and the names of 3 referees preferably from your previous work places, quoting their email addresses/contact numbers properly and Clearly label/quote the job title above on your envelope addressed to Human Resource Officer and hand deliver to the SND Marsabit/Mycale Office or via email: jobs@sndafrica.org. Deadline for the submission of application is 10th October 2025 5:00 PM
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