The FSL Officer is responsible for ensuring the effective planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) activities in Aleppo, in line with Action Against Hunger’s strategies, donor requirements, and sector standards. Working closely with internal teams, local authorities, partners, and technical stakeholders, the role ensures that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to high quality, while integrating cross-cutting themes such as gender, protection, and environmental sustainability. The FSL Officer also contributes to needs assessments, program development, and stakeholder coordination to strengthen the impact and sustainability of FSL interventions, upholding the organization’s code of conduct, safeguarding policies, and humanitarian principles.
o Ensure timely implementation and monitoring of FSL project activities.
o Ensure adherence to the program implementation plan as agreed with local authorities and agencies, and in line with validated plans, budget, and timeframes.
o Prepare and coordinate work plans to achieve project outcomes and results.
o Contribute to the implementation of the log/kit forms and procedures relating to the supply chain, procurement, transport/movement.
o Contribute to the supervision of specific project (s) budget forecast and follow up and participate in the design of new budgets.
o Identifies, and anticipates in a timely manner, potential risks and issues and advises mitigating measures to the FSL Team Leader, field coordinator, and the FSL team/ partner.
o Assist the FSL team leader and field coordinator in supporting key stakeholders to continuously identify and improve operational processes relevant to project implementation.
o Ensure the implementation of cross-cutting themes (gender mainstreaming, protection mainstreaming, conflict-sensitivity, and environmental sustainability) is integrated in the FSL portfolio under the guidance of the FSL team leader, FC, PM, TC, DCDP according to the ACF Syria guidelines.
o Ensure monthly reporting of activities including achievements, challenges and explaining deviation with targets.
o Contribute to donors’ reporting requirements.
o Contribute to sectors/sub-sectors/technical working groups 5Ws
o Contribute to lessons learned documentation and capitalization for program.
o Contribute to Sitrep report, flag report and other mission reports.
o Collect information and data required to analyze FSL needs/gaps.
o In coordination with the MEAL department and other departments, selecting locations based on needs and gaps for implementing FSL projects adhering to the sector, donor and ACF criteria.
o In coordination with MEAL department and other departments, conduct technical and multi-sectoral integrated needs assessments.
o Make recommendations for appropriate interventions.
o Actively participate in sub-sector meetings and relevant technical working groups if requested by the FSL team leader.
o Upon FSL team leader request, coordinate interventions with all relevant technical stakeholders to ensure complementarity, synergy and avoid overlapping.
o Following up approvals from line ministries
o Maintain the working relationship with the local partner/local communities.
-Applications will be assessed and vacancy might be closed before the end of the announcement as per qualifications availability.
- The organization is committed to the principles of non-discrimination and diversity and is particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of qualified people.
In the process of recruitment, selection and appointment Action Against Hunger implement a range of procedures and actions including Criminal Background Checks/ International vetting/Certificate of good conduct to ensure children and vulnerable adults are safeguarded and abuse is prevented.