This position is open to national candidates based in the Gaza Strip only.
The Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL) Department of Action Against Hunger (ACF) in Gaza aims to reduce food insecurity, restore livelihoods, and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations through integrated humanitarian and early recovery interventions. The current department’s main areas of intervention include support to farmers and income-generating activities (IGAs), in-kind food assistance, and multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA), implemented through market-based, inclusive, and community-responsive approaches.
To support the effective delivery and strategic development of this portfolio, ACF is seeking a Food Security & Livelihoods Program Manager to lead the department at Base level, ensure quality and compliance, strengthen external representations and local partnerships, and contribute to the continuous adaptation of FSL interventions in a complex humanitarian context.
The Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL) Program Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating ACF’s FSL portfolio at Base level in Gaza. The position ensures high-quality program design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of FSL interventions, including farmer support, income-generating activities (IGAs), in-kind food assistance, and multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA). The Program Manager provides strategic and operational leadership, ensures compliance with ACF and donor requirements, strengthens coordination and partnerships, and contributes to the continuous adaptation of FSL programming in a complex humanitarian and early recovery context.
Lead strategic planning and quality implementation of FSL programs
- Lead the planning, coordination, and implementation of FSL activities at Base level, ensuring alignment with the ACF FSL Strategy (2022–2025) and the Mission Strategy.
- Oversee targeting strategies, geographic prioritization, and beneficiary selection approaches across all FSL interventions.
- Ensure technical quality, coherence, and complementarity across farmer support, IGAs, in-kind food assistance, and MPCA.
- Validate workplans, MEAL plan, financial forecasts and supply plans across multiple projects and grants.
- Monitor operational risks, access constraints, and contextual changes, and ensure timely program adaptation.
- Ensure integration of gender, protection, accountability (AAP), and do-no-harm principles across FSL activities.
- Ensure compliance with security rules, proper documentation, archiving, and regular reporting on progress, challenges, and priorities to senior management.
Ensure effective grant management and donor compliance
- Lead programmatic inputs to donor proposals, concept notes, and grant amendments.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality donor reporting in coordination with Grants, Finance, and MEAL teams.
- Oversee indicator setting, results frameworks, progress tracking (PTT), and alignment between activities, outputs, and budgets.
- Monitor grant timelines, deliverables, risks, and compliance with donor and ACF requirements.
- Support audits, donor reviews, and monitoring visits.
- Promote learning, documentation of lessons learned, and evidence-based program adaptation.
Manage teams and support internal coordination
- Line-manage and support FSL Heads of Projects, Officers, and relevant staff, ensuring clear roles and accountability.
- Lead recruitment, onboarding, performance management, appraisals, and capacity-building processes for direct reports.
- Foster a positive, collaborative, and results-oriented team culture.
- Ensure effective coordination with MEAL, Logistics, Finance, HR, and Operations to support smooth implementation.
Ensure extenal representation and partnerships
- Represent ACF in relevant coordination fora, including the Food Security Sector (FSS) Cluster at Base level, and coordinate closely with other FSL team members attending complementary coordination meetings such as the Cash Working Group (CWG) to ensure coherence of representation and information flow.
- Maintain regular engagement with donors, local authorities, community-based organizations (CBOs), and NGO partners, contributing to ACF’s localization agenda and strengthening collaborative relationships.
- Lead or support external presentations, briefings, and donor visits, ensuring accurate, consistent, and well-coordinated communication of FSL program objectives, progress, and results.
- Strong program and grant management capacity in FSL
- Solid technical expertise in FSL programming and market-based approaches
- Strong coordination, leadership, and external representation skills
- Commitment to humanitarian principles, accountability, and gender equality
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy, Economics, Rural Development, or a related field is required. A master’s degree in a relevant field is considered an asset. A university degree in another field may be accepted if complemented by solid experience in FSL programme management.
Technical Specific Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of humanitarian project cycle management, with experience managing multiple FSL projects and grants in emergency and early recovery contexts.
- Proven capacity to support proposal development, grant amendments, donor reporting, indicator setting, and coordination with Grants and Finance teams.
- Solid technical understanding of FSL programming, including farmer support, IGAs, in-kind food assistance, and MPCA, with experience in market- and cash-based approaches.
- Ability to provide program-side oversight of procurement, logistics, and budgeting, including BoQs review, budget forecasting, and expenditure monitoring.
- Strong experience in program-side MEAL aspects, including indicator definition, results tracking, learning, accountability (AAP/CFM), and evidence-based program adaptation.
- Ensure program implementation is aligned with the ACF FSL Strategy (2022–2025) and the Mission Strategy and contribute to strategic reflection and adaptation of FSL interventions.
- Technical experience in CVA, agricultural development, livestock management, employability, business development, or value chain approaches is considered an asset.
Previous experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant humanitarian experience in Food Security & Livelihoods, cash-based interventions, or early recovery programming.
- At least 3 years in a coordination or program management role is highly desirable.
This position is open to national candidates based in the Gaza Strip only.
- Based in: Gaza Strip.
- Salary: Based on Action Against Hunger salary scale.
- Action Against Hunger gives food and transportation allowances for a fully worked month.
- We provide workplace compensation
- Health insurance.
- Psychosocial provider for the employee and family.
- 21 days holidays annually per year