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Job Overview
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Date PostedNovember 8, 2024
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Expiration dateNovember 22, 2024
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Experience4 Years
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QualificationCertificate, Bachelor Degree
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OrganizationConcern Worldwide
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Required LanguagesEnglish, Krio
Job Description
Concern Worldwide is a nongovernmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Concern Worldwide’s integrated programming approach aims to tackle all dimensions of poverty, focusing on the overlapping areas of health, education and livelihoods while maintaining our response to emergencies. Concern fully integrates equality in all its work, with emphasis on a gender transformative approach. Concern Worldwide has been operational in Sierra Leone since 1996. . Concern currently operates in the Districts of Western Area Urban (Freetown), Western Area Rural, Tonkolili and Port Loko – as well as remotely in Kambia, Koinadugu, Falaba, Bombali and Karene.
On this note, Concern would like to invite well experienced and professional applicants for the under mentioned role:
Job Title | Market Access Officer |
Reports to: | SLCRP Senior Officer- Cross Cutting |
Direct reports: | Nil |
Liaises with: |
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Job Location: | Port Loko project communities (field based) |
Contract Details: | Fixed term: 12 Months with possibility of extension |
Job Purpose: | The Market Access officer will lead all field activities relating to: Climate-resilient farming, fishing and alternative livelihoods secured by communities through establishing livelihood action plans at community level; Establishing and supporting livelihoods circles at community level; Establish and/or strengthen and train VSLA groups; Improved access to quality productive assets including access to and understanding of market information for project farmers, and linking project farmers to traders, transporters and private sector actors. Strengthen climate resilient business models, skills and access to financing and markets for youth and women’s leadership including Co-deliver ToTs for TVET, entrepreneurship and business skills, The Market Access officer will lead all field activities relating to: Climate-resilient farming, fishing and alternative livelihoods secured by communities through establishing livelihood action plans at community level; Establishing and supporting livelihoods circles at community level; Establish and/or strengthen and train VSLA groups; Improved access to quality productive assets including access to and understanding of market information for project farmers, and linking project farmers to traders, transporters and private sector actors. Strengthen climate resilient business models, skills and access to financing and markets for youth and women’s leadership including Co-deliver ToTs for TVET, entrepreneurship and business skills, Training to community members on TVET, business and entrepreneurship; Develop business models for coastal products; Agree and implement small-scale solutions for strengthening value chains. Strengthen capacity of communities to protect, restore and sustainably use mangrove ecosystems for climate resilience through Identifying alternative livelihood strategies to mangrove use
S/he will coordinate his/her activities with local partner staff leading on facilitating access to finance resources and financial literacy especially related to testing and pilot VSLA for young people and linking VSLA groups to financial services. S/he will support in project assessments including any market and value chain assessments. S/he will ensure that agreed targets are on track, collect monitoring and case stories, and provide quality reports. |
Main duties &
Responsibilities: |
Programme planning and implementation
Under supervision of the SLCRP Senior Officer- Cross Cutting:
Monitoring and Evaluation
Reporting and documentation
Other responsibilities:
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Person specification: | Education, Qualifications & Experience Required
Essential
Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements: Essential:
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Emergency response | Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and Sierra Leone Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization |
HIV & AIDS | Concern Sierra Leone is committed to respond to HIV & AIDS and to a supportive working environment for those infected or affected. Each staff member is required to contribute to achieving this commitment by:
Sharing information with colleagues and avoiding stigma and discrimination. |
Gender Equality | Concern Worldwide in Sierra Leone recognizes that the establishment of equality of opportunity between men and women is fundamental to both the achievement of fairness and to poverty elimination.
Therefore, each staff member of Concern is expected to be sensitive to equality issues in their relationships with colleagues and in their work and to participate in implementation of gender mainstreaming plans, both at the workplace and in programmes. |
Safeguarding at Concern: Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to SME&Lrify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking. |
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should apply with:
- An application letter clearly justifying how you meet the selection criteria
- Recent Curriculum Vitae including names and full contact addresses of three (3) referees, one of whom must be their current or most recent employer.
- Candidates must state the position of each referee and his/her relationship to the candidate.
- A copy of a valid labour card must be attached to ALL applications (written or electronic)
- Police Clearance will be required from the successful candidate
Applications should be sent either through email or by hard copy to the following addresses.
You can send through email to info.sl@concern.net OR deliver in Hard copy to the below locations
HR Department, Concern Worldwide, 20 Old Railway Line – Signal Hill, Freetown
HR Department, Concern Worldwide, 156A Freetown Highway Mile 91, Tonkolili.
HR Department, 24 Upper Kamara Lane, Back of EDSA Substation, Port Loko
Please mark your application as per the references stated in position above
(by email please put the reference in the SUBJECT heading).
Closing date for receipt of applications for the above vacancy is 17.00 on 22nd November 2024
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
PLEASE NOTE THAT A COPY OF THE APPLICATION LETTER (written or typed) MUST BE SENT TO THE NGO DESK OFFICER, MINISTRY OF LABOUR & SOCIAL, NEW ENGLAND OR EMAILED TO Email: employmentdesk71@gmail.com
NOTE!!
Due to the urgent need of this position, shortlisting and interview will be done simultaneously. The vacancy may be closed before the advert closing date if a suitable candidate is found within this period.
“FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY