Agriculture Assistant

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like saving lives, governance and peace building, education, land rights and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty. We are an international confederation of 19 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. All our work is led by three core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness. To read more about our values please click here The Role: Oxfam has been working in South Sudan since 1983. Our Programmatic Strategy concentrates on saving lives, Resilient Livelihoods, Advancing Gender Justice and Good Governance and Active Citizenship through a full spectrum platform that includes humanitarian response, recovery and resilience, long term development and policy and advocacy. Oxfam currently operates via seven area field offices in South Sudan. (It also works in partnership with several national organisations and community groups. Oxfam {affiliate/} is looking for Qualified South Sudanese for the position of Agriculture Assistant What we are looking for: Key Responsibilities KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: To carry out effective mobilization & sensitization of community & other key stakeholders on project implementation strategies Be responsible for ensuring successful implementation to completion of project activities at community level Ensure that relief food distribution activities adhere to the principles and rules of community based targeting and distribution system. Provide effective training, support & supervision to relief committee on roles and responsibilities to ensure that programme deliveries adhere to humanitarian sphere standard and agreed programme quality. To transparently facilitate the identification, registration and review of project beneficiaries according to the agreed beneficiaries eligibility criteria Ensure that project accountability systems at community level are implemented and properly documented (Inspection, information sharing on distributions, waybills management, ledger, beneficiaries’ register and accounting for assistant and maintaining files at community level. Ensure the involvement of the poorest, vulnerable & marginalized members of the community, especially women, men, children, chronically ill and persons with disability in programme identification, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Participate in gathering and compiling of project information (reports, assessments, baseline, monitoring and evaluation) Prepares reports to the field Supervisor as required Gather security information and incident reporting for security management Gathering of food security information to enable food security monitoring Keeps the beneficiaries, local government representatives, local authorities and other stakeholders in the area fully informed about the Oxfam’s programme. To be familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, SPHERE principles and Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes KILLS AND COMPETENCE: Essential Relevant degree or diploma and or professional qualifications in Agriculture. Good understanding and knowledge of community based targeting and distribution systems. Ability to work as a team, interpersonal skill and able to provide field based training to community Good understanding of community facilitation, animation and good community mobilization skills Knowledge of gender and diversity mainstreaming in programme work Knowledge/good understanding of programme cycle management (Design, implementation monitoring and evaluation) Skills and ability to administer tools for to gather information on needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation as well as gathering information on local context especially humanitarian situation, social, political, economic etc) Demonstrates appropriate written and verbal communication skills.