Livelihoods Support Officer at Concern Worldwide

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• Support the day-to-day implementation of agricultural livelihoods and value chain activities in designated project areas. • Collaborate with relevant county government departments, including Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperative Development, Water, Irrigation, Environment, Climate Change, Gender, Youth, and Social Welfare, to facilitate effective project implementation. • Mobilize and engage farmer groups, producer organizations, and community members to participate in project activities and training. • Assist in strengthening agricultural value chains through support to production, aggregation, postharvest management, market linkages, and enterprise development initiatives. • Facilitate and coordinate farmer training, demonstrations, field days, exchange visits, and other capacitybuilding activities in line with project plans. • Support farmer group development and strengthening, including governance, record keeping, business planning, and collective marketing initiatives. • Promote adoption of improved agricultural technologies, climate-smart agriculture practices, and good agronomic practices among target farmers. • Establish and maintain productive relationships with value chain actors, including input suppliers, extension providers, financial institutions, traders, processors, and other market actors. • Support data collection, farmer registration, beneficiary tracking, and maintenance of accurate project databases. • Conduct regular field visits to monitor project activities, assess progress, identify challenges, and gather feedback from beneficiaries and stakeholders. • Support the documentation of success stories, lessons learned, case studies, and best practices from project implementation. • Work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation team to collect, verify, and report project performance data. • Assist in organizing stakeholder meetings, review forums, market linkage events, and coordination meetings at community and county levels. • Support implementation of approved project activities in line with work plans, budgets, organizational policies, and donor requirements. • Contribute to the preparation of weekly and monthly progress reports, highlighting achievements, challenges, and recommendations.