Job Porpuse
The Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership for the planning, design, and implementation of Food Security, Livelihoods, and Resilience programmes in Badghis Zone. Under the overall leadership of the Zonal Manager, and in close coordination with the FSL Sector Lead, the role ensures that FSL interventions are relevant, integrated, and responsive to community needs and preferences, while being delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards, in full compliance with World Vision Afghanistan strategies, technical guidelines, donor requirements, and accountability frameworks.
The role requires strong engagement with local authorities, community structures, and coordination platforms to ensure alignment with national priorities, effective coordination, and acceptance at field level. The FSL Coordinator works closely with MEAL, Finance, Supply Chain, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) teams to ensure evidence-based programming, financial compliance, quality assurance, and meaningful community participation throughout the programme cycle.
The position serves as the direct supervisor of the zonal FSL team, providing leadership, performance management, mentoring, and capacity development. The role also supports the FSL Sector Lead in project design, assessments, innovation, learning, and diversification of FSL interventions, contributing to improved programme impact, accountability, sustainability, and value for money.
Major Responsibilities
1. Leadership and Team Management
- Provide overall leadership to the zonal FSL team, ensuring clear roles, accountability, and performance management.
- Lead recruitment, onboarding, performance appraisal, coaching, and professional development of FSL staff.
- Foster a learning culture that promotes reflection, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure effective internal communication and adherence to World Vision values, policies, and Code of Conduct.
2. Programme Design, Planning, and Quality Implementation
- Support the FSL Sector Lead in needs assessments, project design, proposal development, and diversification of FSL approaches.
- Lead zonal-level FSL assessments with MEAL and contribute to emergency preparedness and response planning.
- Ensure effective implementation of all FSL projects in line with approved designs, SoPs, donor requirements, and WV standards.
- Oversee project start-up, implementation, and close-out processes, ensuring delivery within scope, time, budget, and quality.
- Promote integrated FSL and resilience programming, including CSA, CBDRM, ESCA, and livelihoods diversification with H&N, Protection, WASH and Education Sectors.
- Provide ideas and ensure area-based, community driven programming
3. Financial Oversight and Risk Management
- Ensure effective budget management, expenditure tracking, and value for money across FSL projects in close coordination with PMs, Finance and Supply Chain.
- Review burns rates and financial reports with FSL staff, PM and finance teams.
- Identify implementation, quality, operational, and financial risks; propose mitigation measures and escalate critical risks to management.
- Ensure compliance with financial, procurement, and administrative policies.
4. Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Reporting
- Work closely with MEAL teams to ensure robust monitoring systems, indicators, and learning mechanisms are in place.
- Track progress against targets, outputs, outcomes, and budgets; ensure adaptive management where needed.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality donor and internal reporting together with PMs.
- Promote documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and evidence to inform programme improvement and new designs.
- Ensure timely reporting to the sector lead to inform relevant reporting mechanisms to clusters and working groups
5. Community Engagement, Accountability, and Safeguarding
- Ensure strong community engagement and alignment of FSL interventions with community needs and preferences.
- Integrate Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), safeguarding, and feedback mechanisms across all FSL activities.
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor implementation quality and community satisfaction.
6. Coordination, Representation, and Partnerships
- Represent World Vision Afghanistan in provincial and zonal FSL coordination platforms, clusters, and working groups.
- Maintain effective relationships with government authorities, NGOs/INGOs, and UN agencies.
- Coordinate donor visits, third-party monitoring, and external engagements related to FSL programming.
- Contribute to advocacy, communications, and visibility efforts by providing quality programme content.
