Livelihoods Coordinator | FINDEF
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Livelihoods Coordinator | FINDEF
📍 Location: Borno State
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc
Experience: Minimum 6 years
Job Field: NGO / Non-Profit
Application Deadline: November 20, 2026.
About the Role
Finpact Development Foundation (FINDEF), an indigenous non-governmental organisation, is seeking a Livelihoods Coordinator to oversee livelihood recovery and economic strengthening activities, including savings groups, vocational training, agricultural market linkages, and child-safe market initiatives.
📧 Apply via: [email protected]
Use Livelihoods Coordinator as the subject of the email.
Livelihoods Coordinator | FINDEF
📍 Location: Borno State
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc
Experience: Minimum 6 years
Job Field: NGO / Non-Profit
Application Deadline: November 20, 2026.
About the Role
Finpact Development Foundation (FINDEF), an indigenous non-governmental organisation, is seeking a Livelihoods Coordinator to oversee livelihood recovery and economic strengthening activities, including savings groups, vocational training, agricultural market linkages, and child-safe market initiatives.
📧 Apply via: [email protected]
Use Livelihoods Coordinator as the subject of the email.
Responsibilities
- Establish and support 80 Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), including training officers and community facilitators.
- Deliver financial literacy and household financial management sessions.
- Develop and monitor child-safe market agreements with traders, transporters, and agricultural processors.
- Conduct market assessments and coordinate market-linked vocational training for at least 800 youths.
- Establish linkages between trained youths, employers, buyers, and business networks.
- Support agricultural market linkages and post-harvest activities for farming households.
- Coordinate data collection, monitor project outcomes, and prepare reports for management and donors.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Business Administration, Rural Development, Agricultural Economics, International Development, or a related field.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in livelihoods, enterprise development, or economic recovery programming, including at least 2 years in a coordination or management role.
- Experience establishing VSLAs, conducting market assessments, and designing market-linked livelihood interventions.
- Ability to engage traditional community authorities and integrate protection considerations into economic programmes.
- Fluency in Hausa or Kanuri, with good English proficiency.
- Familiarity with digital data collection platforms such as KoBoToolbox.
- Experience in Borno State or northeast Nigeria is an advantage.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with commitment to humanitarian values, safeguarding, accountability, and gender sensitivity.
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