Background information on the tendered work packages

Self Help Africa will be recruiting a team of qualified professionals for an upcoming project.

The Project aims to improve the nutritional situation and resilience of poor rural households, especially women and small children, in selected districts of Eastern Province and Luapula Province.

The work packages aim to:

• Improve knowledge about healthy nutrition, WASH and family planning.
• Empower poor rural households, particularly female members, economically and socially through savings groups and the implementation of gender transformative approaches.
• Strengthen capacities of intermediaries at provincial, district and community level for the provision of nutrition-related services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the recruitment, training, and certification of SILC Field Agents (FAs) and their transition to Private Service Providers (PSPs).
• Supporting the formation and growth of SILC groups, with a strong focus on inclusion, self-management, and sustainability.
• Embedding financial literacy and gender-transformative elements into SILC training content and delivery.
• Strengthening linkages between SILC and Care Group activities to promote joint financial and health decision-making.
• Supporting the use of SILC monitoring tools and coordinating with the M&E officer to track progress.
• Documenting good practices and contributing to scale-up strategies that are responsive to provincial contexts.
• Understands the professional duty to report crime in line with organisational and professional guidance.
• ensure that all staff are familiar with the principles underpinning accountability, safeguarding and Self Help Africa's Community Feedback and Response Mechanism (CFRM) and ensure that information about Self Help Africa's commitments on accountability and safeguarding are disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Qualifications / Other Requirements:

• Bachelor´s degree in Rural Development, Development Economics, Social Sciences, or Project Management with a specialization or thesis focus on financial inclusion, livelihoods, or community-based savings mechanisms.
• Good knowledge (speaking/understanding) of the specific regional local language Nyanja or Bemba.
• 6 years working in rural livelihoods and economic empowerment, including household resilience, women’s income generation, and poverty reduction.
• 5 years’ experience in implementing village/community-based saving and loan groups.
• 3 years’ experience with fostering joint decision-making at household level.
• 2 years’ experience in monitoring of rural financial inclusion (e.g. monitoring outcomes of saving/loan groups).
• 5 years of experience in development cooperation projects in Zambia

• Bachelor´s degree in Rural Development, Development Economics, Social Sciences, or Project Management with a specialization or thesis focus on financial inclusion, livelihoods, or community-based savings mechanisms.
• Good knowledge (speaking/understanding) of the specific regional local language Nyanja or Bemba.
• 6 years working in rural livelihoods and economic empowerment, including household resilience, women’s income generation, and poverty reduction.
• 5 years’ experience in implementing village/community-based saving and loan groups.
• 3 years’ experience with fostering joint decision-making at household level.
• 2 years’ experience in monitoring of rural financial inclusion (e.g. monitoring outcomes of saving/loan groups).
• 5 years of experience in development cooperation projects in Zambia