Social Protection Support (SC5)

The Social Protection Support role at FAO Somalia involves supporting access to finance, gender, and social protection activities across various programmes. The incumbent will provide operational support, liaise with partners, and contribute to policy development and capacity strengthening to advance Somalia's social protection agenda.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that programme activities on social protection, financial inclusion (e.g., VSLAs), and gender are aligned with FAO’s Strategic Framework and Somalia’s Country Programming Framework (CPF).
• Provide day-to-day operational support, including reviewing partner reports, supporting LoA/LoU processes, organizing training and capacity-building activities, and facilitating knowledge sharing.
• Support policy development and capacity-strengthening efforts with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) and other stakeholders to advance Somalia’s social protection agenda.
• Contribute to data collection, research, and documentation of lessons learned, challenges, and best practices in linking social protection with resilience, nutrition, and climate change.
• Facilitate collaboration between FAO, partners, and communities by providing secretariat and coordination support for workshops, policy dialogues, and social protection meetings.
• Participate in field missions to monitor progress, identify challenges, and recommend improvements for programme delivery.
• Review reports submitted by the partners against LoA/LoUs, across the on-going projects.
• Support the technical teams in liaising with partners to ensure proper implementation, and monitoring of the LoA/LoUs.
• Initiate LOAs/LoUs payments based on the activities undertaking in the field.
• Organize training and capacity building events related to Social Protection, access to finance and gender related to the projects/program with the consultation of the technical team.
• With the guidance of the technical teams develop an implementation plan and successful delivery of protection activities, including social protection monitoring.
• Support Data Collection for Research on Social Protection and access to finance, and Climate change.
• Support FAOSO Social Protection knowledge repository on SharePoint.
• Participate in field missions to review progress, learn from challenges, recommend improvements, and identify best practices.
• Support the team with any administrative duties where required.
• Perform any other duties as required.

Requirements

• University degree in business administrations, development studies, social sciences or project management, or related field from a recognized university /institution.
• At least three years of work experience in social protection, access to finance and delivery of cash transfer.
• Working Knowledge (Level C) Of English.
• National of Somalia.
• Experience in Social Protection, access to finance, workshop management, and delivery of cash transfer.
• Excellent communication, writing, and reporting skills.
• Familiar with Project Cycle Management.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.

Skills

• Social Protection Policies
• Access to Finance
• Cash Transfer Delivery
• Project Cycle Management
• Workshop Management
• Policy Development
• Capacity Strengthening
• Operational Support
• Report Writing
• Communications Skills

Languages

English