Job Description
- Impact: We are accountable, ambitious and committed to systemic change.
- Innovation: We are agile, creative and enterprising in an ever-changing world.
- Community: We are inclusive, honest and have integrity in our relationships.
- Organizing and mobilizing smallholder farmers/ village communities into groups/VESAs and/or RuSACCOs in collaboration with relevant government line department staff
- Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate training and project intervention programmes for communities
- Facilitate different community level trainings, and experience sharing visits
- Take part in beneficiary selection processes, including to facilitating and ensuring the inclusion more vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, female headed households and women
- Facilitate timely distribution of agricultural inputs to the targeted beneficiaries
- Collect pertinent data from all project intervention areas requested by the Project team and country office
- Participate in stakeholder meetings and networks at district and village levels
- Prepare and submit progress reports properly and timely
- Assist in timely and accurate documentation, publication and dissemination of the business development and financial literacy activities. This includes success stories, lessons learned, etc.
- Perform other duties as requested by the immediate supervisor
Key Relationships:
Internal
- Project officer (Line Manager)
- Cluster Coordinator
- Project Manager
- R4 Project Team,
- SHA Ethiopia Country Office
External
- Project Donor
- Local Government Authorities,
- Financial Institutions,
- Other International and Local NGOs,
- Private Sector Organisations,
- Business Advisors and Mentors.
Department: Programmes
Reports to: Project officer
Contract Type: One-year fixed term contract
Job Requirements
Qualifications/Knowledge and Experience
Essential:
- BSc/BA degree in Agriculture, Rural Development, Development studies, Economics, Food Security, Disaster Risk Management, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness Management, cooperative development, Sociology, or other related fields
- At least three years relevant working experience in livelihood, food security, resilience building, climate change adaptation, natural resource management, community mobilization or other relevant fields
- Plans and prioritizes work activities to meet organizational goals
- Good inter-personal and communication skills
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism
- Creativity and innovation for coordination and management activities
- Capacity and maturity to establish and maintain links with government officials, smallholder farmers and private sector
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks effectively
- Ability to organise and manage events like farmers’ field days, trainings, and workshops
- Computer literacy, particularly in MS Word and MS Excel
- Sense of confidentiality
- Ability to work independently in a timely and organized manner;
- Motorbike license
Desirables:
- Demonstrate capacity to plan, prioritize and deliver tasks on time to meet goals in a high-pressure environment;
- Proven ability to work in multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder working environments;
- Experience working in an NGO setting;
- Ability to work and act under pressure;
More Information
- Address Ethiopia