Kellu Susan Dauda

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da***lu@gmail.com

Profile

Skills

Agriculture
agricultural extension

Experience

Kellu Susan Dauda

Work experience

Vsla officer at Finpact Consulting

January, 2023 - May, 2023
Fulltime

Facilitate beneficiary identification in consultation with communities and local leaders using set criteria.
Conduct awareness /sensitization on VSLA and IGA (Income Generating Activities) among communities and local leaders.
Provide mentorship for the groups as required.
Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of VSLA Groups related activities and support in the implementation of capacity building training for the VSLA Groups target beneficiaries at the LGA level.
Represent Finpact in LGA-level coordination meetings and conferences as necessary when requested.
Write high-quality project activity reports and submit them to the Project Manager as required.
Be the focal point for all VSLA activities within the implementing location.
Conduct regular monitoring, collect relevant data for reporting the project progress and provide updates on VSLA activities to the Project Manager.
Oversee the implementation of the VSLA activities by coordinating with staff on the field and all stakeholders.
Follow up on the day-to-day progress of VSLA and make recommendations for improving the project according to activity results.
Perform any other duties as assigned by the Project Manager.

Kellu Susan Dauda

Work experience

Food security and livelihood officer at Premiere Urgence Internationale

November, 2019 - May, 2022
Fulltime

Organize and supervise all Food security and Livelihoods assessment activities pertaining to the project deliverables such as post distribution monitoring, monthly vendor shop monitoring, price monitoring and/or market assessments.
Follow up and support team in the identification and registration of beneficiaries, and supplier/vendors.
Follow up and support the collection of any relevant information from the communities and partners.
Follow up and support team during E-voucher card distribution and disbursement.
Identify potential project risks and mitigation measures • Train VSLA groups on the modern modality of practicing VSLA.
Conduct seeds viability test for Agric beneficiaries to ascertain the germination rate of the seeds
Program management
Design and develop livelihood beneficiaries tracking tool
Develop shop monitoring tool and vendor assessment tool
Identify areas where improvement can be made to increase impact, identifying and incorporating lessons learned in program design;
Monitoring expenditure on a monthly basis against the approved budget. Reviewing expenditure projections to ensure that expenditure stays within budget.
Ensuring that the OFU and BFU are updated on a monthly basis
Review and updating of the program activity sheet in a contextualized modality
Ensuring that Project expenditure is being coded correctly and consistently (that is allocated to correct budget lines) and that donor funds are used solely for the purposes for which they were granted
Monitoring and Evaluation
Ensure that beneficiaries have access to feedback mechanism and that data is monitored and responses given within appropriate time periods
Support MEAL team conduct need assessment, data and information collection for ongoing livelihood programs and for the development of future proposals
Proper documentation of lesson learned from review processes to continuously improve the quality of cash transfer interventions
Collate and analyze livelihood data according to the need of the program.
Extract and pass on compiled statistics (beneficiary, cards, assessments, monitoring, etc.) for project presentations.
Keep monitoring tools and files archived at the PUI office, ensuring their availability to auditors

Kellu Susan Dauda

Work experience

Food security and livelihood officer at ADRA Nigeria

May, 2018 - October, 2019
Fulltime

Ensure that program implementation is responsive to community needs, meets targets, and is carried out in line with best practices;
Oversee the delivery of business training to youth and women
Organize and trained Agricultural and livestock beneficiaries Climate Smart agricultural practices
Train VSLA groups and form new group
Routine medication of small and large ruminants
Train beneficiaries on income generating activities (IGAs)
Coordinate and organize farmers field schools across all beneficiaries
Distribution of improved viable seeds to farmers
Program management
Ensure effective community engagement to create enabling environment and ownership;
Write monthly, quarterly summaries and annual reports to the Project Manager;
Review the cash implementing modalities to meet the community needs;
Development of agriculture farming calendar that are context based
Monitoring and Evaluation
Manage program in line with the Logical framework and the program M&E plan;
Support MEAL team to ensure that the selection criteria for Households where clearly understood and embedded in the Kobo collect tools;
Monitoring of the redemption process to avoid denial of beneficiaries right either by the vendors or the community rulers
Ensure that beneficiaries have access to feedback mechanism and that data is monitored and responses given within appropriate time periods;
Support MEAL team conduct need assessment, data and information collection for ongoing livelihood programs and for the development of future proposals;
Proper documentation of lesson learned from review processes to continuously improve the quality of cash transfer interventions;