Community Mobilizer- THRIVE Project

Key Responsibilities:

Project planning and implementation

• Coordinate effective and timely implementation of all interventions outlined under Local Value Chain development and any other related and cross-cutting programme activities in the project.
• Participate in the preparation of the overall work plan and budget as well as develop activity plans and budgets for technical support of local value chain development interventions
• Participate in developing different levels of progress reports (weekly updates, situational reports, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports)
• Supporting Project Quality Assurance (PQA) through organizing and supporting monitoring visits on L&R interventions.
• Collaborate with relevant ministries and other relevant partners at the County and community levels to ensure integration and high-level implementation the planned Local Value Chain activities
• Work closely with relevant authorities to ensure all economic recovery and market systems interventions deployed in the communities are in alignment with L&R in emergency Standards
• Work together with other staff/ to ensure that key trainings meet the standard required to facilitate, provide knowledge and reinforcement of desired L&R behaviour and practices.
• Ensure that business processes, standards and guidelines related to Livelihood & resilience initiatives are effectively applied in project implementation.
• Make technical input into the planning and design of project-specific operational research, including baseline and end-line evaluation, post-distribution monitoring related to L&R.
• Conduct continuous activity and budget analysis to ensure adherence to the approved work, budget and procurement plans

Technical support

• Work with communities and relevant stakeholders to identify key on-farm and off-farm value chains to support
• Support project market research on viable value chains
• Ensure the target communities are mobilized and participate in the identified Local Value Chain Interventions
• In consultation with other staff, government and partners, sensitize and mobilize the communities to form Project Implementation units, producer groups
• Support produce aggregation and marketing activities of the project
• Work with the Project Officer, local stakeholders and leaders to identify community champions/resource persons for LVCD, Empowered World View and Digitization of farmer records
• In consultation with other staff, develop capacity assessment tools for producer groups and develop a capacity development plan
• Facilitate the capacity building of the partners and farmer groups on LVCD activities (Climate Smart Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, post-harvest management and value addition, transformational leadership)
• Facilitate linkages of the savings groups to the FAST product to enhance their performance
• Ensure cross-cutting themes are integrated into LVCD interventions
• Provide technical support and timely feedback to the Project Manager on the LVCD interventions outlined in the THRIVE project.
• Organize meetings with key local value chain actors and farmers to forge effective support of the LVCD interventions
• Ensure adult and child safeguarding during the implementation of the planned interventions

Quality assurance -Monitoring, Reporting, evaluation and Documentation

• Ensure the community champions (LVCD, EWV and S4T) have the necessary monitoring tools and are trained on the same
• Develop project monitoring and reporting schedules in collaboration with the various stakeholders
• Work with the community champions/facilitators to continuously train, monitor and mentor the performance of producer groups along identified value chains
• Clean and Collate project performance data and ensure it is keyed into the relevant Monitoring Information System (MIS) every month
• Prepare weekly updates, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual progress reports
• Documentation of key lessons learnt and success stories from the target farmers
• Continuously track progress of planned activities and outputs in the detailed implementation plan to ensure timely and quality implementation of plans
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of THRIVE activities in coordination with M&E and relevant stakeholders.
• Support the farmer records digitization process and performance tracking in collaboration with community resource persons and relevant private actors
• Together with farmers, partners, conduct regular reflection and learning events
• Support the project data collection during baseline, end line, market assessments and post distribution assessments

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

• Have a minimum of a Diploma in agriculture/Agricultural economics/ Developmental Studies or equivalent from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of two years’ experience working with communities in either relief or development, Livelihood and Resilience/Food security projects
• Must be a resident of Makueni County
• Excellent English communication skills (both oral and written) with a good understanding of the local dialect and context
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office and Lotus Notes (or another main email system such as Microsoft Outlook)
• A team player, capable of building the community capacity in economic recovery aspects
• Cross-cultural sensitivity and emotional maturity
• Able to ride a motorbike with a valid license

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only

Skills Required:

• Agricultural / Studies
• Social / Science / Project / Management / Development