Community Facilitator – Livestock for Livelihoods UK Aid Grant Jobs – Farm Africa
Job Title: Community Facilitator – Livestock for Livelihoods
Organization: Farm Africa
Duty Station: Moroto, Uganda
Reports to: Livestock Officer (Moroto)
About US:
Farm Africa is an international non-governmental organization working to end hunger and bring prosperity to rural Africa. We work to increase the incomes and improve food security of smallholder farmers, pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, and forest dwellers in East Africa. A core part of our strategy is to ensure that our interventions are both economically sustainable and scalable. The systematic integration of market linkages in implementing programmes is crucial to our ability to scale our interventions cost-effectively. Farm Africa has the ambition to be the leading European NGO specialising in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Market Engagement.
About UK Aid Project:
Farm Africa has the ambition to be the leading European NGO specialising in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Market Engagement. It has recently been awarded a £5m grant for a Livestock for Livelihoods (L4L) programme operating in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region and Ethiopia’s South Omo zone funded by the UK government (UK Aid). The project will be implemented across four districts of Karamoja sub-region (Moroto, Napak, Kotido & Nakapiripirit). During this four year programme Farm Africa will work with local civil society, SMEs, cooperatives and farmer organisations to develop market systems that support livestock services and enterprises for 21,000 women, contributing to women’s economic empowerment, reduced poverty and improved nutrition of women and children. The project will address market failures in animal health and breeding services to improve livestock productivity, build capacity and assets of herders, establish trade and enterprise opportunities and improve household nutrition practices through behavioural change. It will demonstrate how nutrition interventions can build on women’s economic empowerment to contribute to both increased income and improved household nutrition.
Job Summary: The Community Facilitator is responsible for creating awareness to target communities about the project, mobilizing women into Women Livestock groups (WLGs) to participate in the project in line with project guidelines and supporting their development to increase the size and productivity of their goat herds, savings and credit, land use and fodder management and value addition in designated sub-counties of Moroto, Napak, Nakapiripirit and Kotido districts in line with the operational plan for the project.
The Community facilitator will work under the direct supervision of L4L Livestock officer and with the team from our nutrition partners, AFRII, to ensure that members of the women’s livestock groups are actively participating in activities designed to drive behaviour change and improve nutritional outcomes at a household level.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Community Mobilization and Engagement
- Work with the livestock officer and other project team members to develop community sensitization plan
- Facilitate community awareness sessions with other stakeholders
- Identify and mobilize target women into Women livestock groups to participate in the L4L Project
- Generate a profile of the beneficiaries, both individual and WLGs profiles
- Develop and maintain a database of all the beneficiaries within the area of responsibility
Delivering Technical Excellence
- Provide ongoing support to women’s livestock groups – delivering ongoing training in areas such as leadership and group dynamics, savings and credit, goat rearing and land use and fodder management
- Conduct post-training monitoring and mentorship of groups to ensure successful adoption
- Provide ongoing support to a group level revolving scheme, ensuring relevant group level by-laws and agreements are being developed and adhered to
- Promote saving culture and of good nutritional practices among the WLGs members
- Identify group performance/management problems, provide necessary support to them and articulate challenges faced to the Livestock Officer
- Take lead in building the capacity of farmers and farmer groups to effectively engage with the markets
Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting
- Contribute to internal and external reporting, by regularly collecting and collating information from women’s livestock groups supported by the project using the tools provided by the project
- Participate in weekly project planning and review meetings with the Livestock officer and with the rest of the team
- Ensure that project reports are frequently compiled and submitted in line with Farm Africa guidelines and donor requirements
Visibility and Communication: Support in collecting information and pictures for success stories, fact sheets, case studies and lessons learnt as required
Organisation
- Play an active role as a member of the Farm Africa Uganda team
- Identify and advise the Livestock Officer on opportunities to grow and expand the country project pipeline, both in relation to the current project or related to new project opportunities for Farm Africa Uganda
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned by project staff
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Farm Africa Community Facilitator – Livestock for Livelihoods job should possess a Diploma or equivalent in Agriculture, Livestock, Rural/Community Development, Pastoral Development, Agribusiness, Rural Livelihoods or other relevant field
- Knowledge and good understanding of pastoral production systems
- Two years of community mobilization and engagement experience within pastoral production systems
- Experience of establishing or supporting the development of village level savings groups
- Demonstrable Experience in facilitation of Adult Learners
- Experience of working in Karamoja
- Experience of establishing or supporting the development of village level savings groups
- Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and communities based on trust and collaboration
- Ability to communicate and share knowledge with a broad range of stakeholders with differing backgrounds and abilities.
- Energetic and assertive with a positive mindset
- Good community mobilizer with strong organizational skills
- Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and communities based on trust and collaboration
- Ability to communicate and share knowledge with a broad range of stakeholders with differing backgrounds and abilities.
Desired
- Field level experience in community mobilization to participate in project activities, sensitization, designing and conducting trainings and promoting behaviour change for pastoralist communities
- Experience of designing and conducting trainings using gender-sensitive techniques and methodologies
- Experience promoting culture of savings among pastoralists
- Experience promoting culture of savings among pastoralists
- Field level experience in community mobilization to participate in project activities, sensitization, designing and conducting trainings and promoting behaviour change for pastoralist communities
- Problem identification, analysis and solving of complex issues
How to Apply:
Please submit your CV, salary history and supporting statement to ugandarecruitment@farmafrica.org
NB: Please DO NOT send additional documents such as certificates and references with your application. Shortlisted candidates ONLY will be required to provide these documents during the interview process. Interviews are expected to take place w/c Monday 25th March 2019 at Farm Africa’s office in Moroto. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Deadline: 15th March 2019
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