Overview
Provide technical, managerial/coordination and operational support for FAO Lebanon’s resilience and rural livelihoods programming, with a primary focus on strengthening the productive capacities, economic resilience and self-sufficiency of vulnerable farming communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support/lead the design of resilience and livelihoods interventions, including needs assessments, vulnerability analyses, targeting approaches.
- Integrate climate resilience, shock-responsive programming and disaster risk reduction approaches into livelihoods intervention design.
- Support/lead the design and implementation of direct productive support mechanisms for farmers and agri-food actors.
- Define targeting criteria, beneficiary selection and verification processes, and registration systems.
- Support value chain and market assessments for priority agricultural commodities.
- Support cooperative development and agri-enterprise strengthening.
- Ensure proper documentation, compliance and audit trail for all support mechanisms and asset transfer operations.
- Monitor support resources utilization and productive outcomes.
- Collaborate with the FAO grievance and feedback mechanism.
- Design, roll out and oversee the implementation of structured capacity-building programmes for farmers, cooperatives and rural enterprises.
- Develop and continuously update training materials, technical guidelines and facilitation tools.
- Train facilitators and implementing partners in the delivery of FAO Lebanon’s curriculums.
- Monitor knowledge and practice adoption among programme participants.
- Maintain regular field presence to supervise the implementation of livelihoods activities.
- Coordinate closely with the operations unit to ensure timely delivery of inputs.
- Monitor technical and financial progress of livelihoods activities.
- Coordinate with government institutions, local NGOs, farmer organisations and private sector actors.
- Participate in relevant technical working groups, livelihoods coordination platforms and sector meetings.
- Support coordination with implementing partners and service providers.
- Lead/Contribute to the preparation and regular updating of project workplans, activity schedules and procurement plans.
- Prepare Terms of Reference and Scope of Works, evaluation criteria, project reports and other programme documentation.
- Assist in the preparation of technical specifications of inputs, supplies, and equipment.
- Prepare and update project logical frameworks, results frameworks and performance monitoring matrices.
- Monitor implementation progress of activities against approved workplans and budgets.
- Coordinate with implementing partners, service providers, contractors and field teams.
- Lead the preparation of donor progress reports, assist in the preparation of project financial reports and internal monitoring documents.
- Participate in project review meetings and relevant external coordination forums.
- Perform any other related duties as required.
- Lead the design and implementation of monitoring systems for resilience and livelihoods interventions.
- Conduct periodic field monitoring visits to implementation areas.
- Produce outcome assessments for food security and livelihoods interventions.
- Support the preparation of technical and donor progress reports.
- Document good practices, field evidence and lessons learned from livelihoods programming.
- Provide technical input to various written outputs.
Required Experience
- 6 years of relevant experience in agricultural livelihoods programming, resilience interventions or rural development;
- Proven experience in: (i) implementation of livelihoods support programmes targeting smallholder farmers and rural communities; (ii) management of direct grants, matching grants or productive asset transfer programmes; (iii) design and delivery of structured capacity-building programmes including participatory extension approaches such as Farmer Field Schools (FFS), Farmer Business Schools (FBS) or equivalent; (iv) field-based project implementation and supervision.
- Experience in crisis or emergency recovery contexts is highly desirable.
- Prior experience with FAO, UN agencies or NGOs is an asset.
- Strong knowledge of Lebanon’s agricultural and livelihoods context is highly desirable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Rural Development, Agricultural Economics, or a related field.
- A Master’s degree is an asset.
