CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The FSL Officer – Livestock will focus on supporting livestock-based livelihoods, particularly for the livestock herders and smallholder farmers. The officer will plan and monitor technically the implementation of the livestock Development and Animal health related aspects of FCDO project in Kunar province.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: FSL coordinator
Staff reporting to this post: Community mobilizers-volunteers
Direct: 00
Indirect: 00
Budget Responsibilities: Not Applicable
Role Dimensions: The post holder will establish a good working relationship with rest of Save the Children's livelihood and child protection staff as well as with community members where the project activities are implemented.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
The main areas of accountability and responsibility of this position are, to support the implementation of the Agriculture component under FCDO PREAVEL grant over the target province/s.
Key Responsibilities:
Collect and analyse information on animal production and health conditions of the target area especially statistics on animal production and health , feeding.grazing and other related to contextual issues .
Identify the needs of the most vulerbale populations and propose interventions to these needs regarding with improving/increasing the target communities in animal livelihoods/farming system.
Lead the implemnation of the planned animal production and animal health activities and strategies of the project in collaboration with other departments /sectors
Provide technical support and follow up the Field Extension Agents , Animal producer community groups /IGAs especially poultry , dairy cow , etc and the direct beneficiaries’ activities at grass root level
Define implementation modalities ( identification and registration of beneficiaries , distribution , training , awareness , monitoring etc ) for livestock and animal health compoement of the project.
Travel frequently to the project sites/villages and mobilize the targeted stakeholders and beneficiary communities to fulfil the objectives of the project activities .
Plan and oversee livestock vaccination and deworming campaigns in coordination with local service providers and community stakeholders.
The livestock officer will play a key role in the mobilization and transparent community selection process.
You will conduct daily visits to the project sites, providing information and technical advices to the communities.
You will deliver training to the communities in appropriate and modern animal production techniques , animal health and welfare practices including all aspects of animal health, the importance of preventative treatment and veterinary services, fodder/forage development , and feeding, grazing management, housing, and animal handling in the relevant district.
You will work to establish the community fodder banks and train the livestock owners on how to manage them.
Promote best practices in livestock husbandry, including improved animal handling, hygiene, and market linkages for livestock products.
Ensure that livestock interventions are inclusive, targeting vulnerable groups such as women, persons with disabilities, and families with limited income
Provide regular updates and progress reports on livestock-related activities.
Assist the FSL coordinator to prepare annual , quarterly and monthly plans for effective execution of the project activities as stipulated in the project document
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning:
Prepare and implement action plan for quality monitoring
Mobilizing and Making communities aware of project objectives, outputs and activities and MEAL systems and SCI Child Safeguarding Policies.
Facilitate project and activities information at all events such as training and workshops
Support the FSL coordinator in developing and preparing monitoring plans and ensure that activities are in line with achieving expected outputs of the Livestock development activities
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, take responsibility for their own personal development and encourage their team to do the same
widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members, and external partners, and supporters
Values diversity, and sees it as a source of competitive strength
approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
