Job Title: Graduation Coordinator (Afgoye) 1 Position
Organizational Description:
AVSI is an international NGO with headquarters in Italy, which has been active in Kenya since 1986 and In Somalia since 2020. AVSI is a prominent provider of development and humanitarian assistance around the world and brings strong management and innovative strategies to programs in various sectors including; Agriculture and Food Security, Child Protection, Education, Energy, Health, Livelihood, Economic Strengthening, Wash, Vocational Training & Job Creation, Health, Protection including child protection, and Environment.
Programme Background**:**
AVSI Foundation is launching a poverty-alleviation project under its Resilience Food Security Activity framework in the areas of Mogadishu/Banadir and Afgoye. The project is centered on the Graduation Approach, a multistep, time-bound program designed to bring extremely poor and vulnerable households out of poverty in a sustainable and resilient manner. The interventions are hence planned to roll out in a set of underserved IDP and host settlements of Mogadishu/Banadir and the Afgoye area. While this approach has never been applied to this cale in Somalia, AVSI has built its expertise in Graduation after successfully applying this approach in countries like Kenya and Uganda. The project is expected to run from 2024 to 2029.
Job Purpose
The Graduation Coordinator will be responsible for the implementation of the Graduation Approach-related trainings and capacity building activities led by AVSI in Mogadishu. They will coordinate the day-to-day implementation of trainings and capacity building activities related to the Graduation Approach falling under AVSI’s SOW. They will also manage the work of the Coaching supervisors throughout the project and report on the implementation of the Graduation Approach at field level to the Graduation Approach Lead, while making sure the suggestions of the latter are applied.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure that programmatic decisions on the Graduation Approach, best practices, and innovations are clearly communicated to the coaches and participants;
- Ensure that programmatic decision on gender approaches, best practices, and innovations are clearly communicated to field-level staff (coaches/CBTs);
- Conduct trainings and mentorship for project coaches on graduation approaches, gender, and linkage activities;
- Support gender-specific assessments to ensure gender dynamics are well understood for effective gender mainstreaming;
- Share and document learning at the field level around successes and challenges to graduation and gendered approaches within the project;
- Network and link with other organizations and projects implementing graduation and gender approaches, study and compare graduation and gender aspects within the program with the Graduation Community of Practice and provide technical programmatic guidance for the project;
- Map and regularly update the list of all service points to facilitate high quality referrals, linkages and access to critical services by participant households;
- Represent AVSI project in the Settlement, Sub County and District level working groups and initiatives related to gender, linkages and referrals including the regular interface with sub county, district level probation officer and other departmental heads;
- Develop plans and reports in line with timelines agreed with the Technical Advisor – Graduation and the Project Manager;
- Maintain harmonious and constructive relationship with all major stakeholders in the program and in the policy environment and other implementing and operational partners;
- Coordinate and support coaches conduct routine visits and sensitizations to refugees and host community households and groups to provide psychosocial support, track the project progress and critical issues;
- Coordinate household targeting exercise and guide the development of Household Development Plans for participant households;
- Facilitate referral of participant household members to critical services;
- Perform other duties within the area of responsibility as requested by the supervisor.
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