Summary: Field Officer role with Boma Projects in Marsabit, providing field-level technical leadership and supervision for livelihoods and resilience programming. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Agribusiness, or related field with 4–5 years’ experience in livelihoods, economic inclusion, or resilience programming. Full-time, field-based role.
Position Purpose
- BOMA is seeking to recruit three Field Officers to support SOIL
program implementation in Marsabit County. Reporting to the SOIL Program
Manager, the Field Officer will provide field-level technical leadership,
planning, coordination, supervision, and quality assurance, to ensure
program activities are delivered on time, within budget, and to
agreed standards and targets.
- The role will supervise Mentors, lead participant targeting
activities, plan and coordinate program implementation, support Mentor
capacity strengthening and train participants on technical topics,
facilitate market and financial linkages, and use technology tools and
program data to monitor participant progress and inform adaptive program
management. The Field Officer will work with key stakeholders including
participants, community leaders and members, government officials, market
actors, sub-grantees, and service providers to strengthen livelihoods,
enterprise development, incomes, savings, food and nutrition security, and
household resilience.
- The role will ensure Mentors discharge planned program activities
with quality ensure quality monitoring data is collected as prescribed for
the program and Technology tools are used where provided and for the
defined work. It will also be responsible for reporting, stakeholder
coordination, safeguarding, male engagement, accountability, and timely
resolution of implementation challenges, while ensuring effective
application of SOIL’s nutrition-sensitive livelihoods model.
Requirements
Education
and Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Agribusiness,
Economics, Community Health and Nutrition, Project Management,
Entrepreneurship, Social Sciences, or another relevant field.
- A professional qualification or postgraduate training in
livelihoods, economic inclusion, nutrition, agriculture, climate
resilience, market systems development, or project management will be an
added advantage.
- Training or certification in Training of Trainers (ToT), adult
learning, facilitation, or community-based programming is highly
desirable.
Professional
Experience
- At least 4–5 years of relevant experience in program/project
implementation, preferably in livelihoods, economic inclusion, graduation
programming, food and nutrition security, agriculture/livestock, or
resilience programming.
- Demonstrated experience in direct supervision and coaching of field
teams, Mentors, or similar frontline staff.
- Strong experience in designing and delivering technical training to
both field staff and program participants using adult-learning
approaches.
- Demonstrated experience establishing and managing market, financial,
government, community, education, health, and other service linkages for
program participants.
- Experience working with government, private-sector actors, financial
service providers, community structures, and development partners.
- Demonstrated experience using program data to monitor performance,
identify implementation gaps, and inform adaptive management and
decision-making.
- Experience working in ASAL, rural, pastoralist, or other
resource-constrained contexts is highly desirable.
- Experience integrating nutrition, livelihoods, gender, resilience,
and social inclusion into program delivery.
How to Apply
