Thrive Project: Community Mobilizer

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 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).
• Support 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 of 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 standards required to facilitate, provide knowledge, and reinforce desired L&R behavior 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 and producer groups.
• Support produce aggregation and marketing activities of the project.
• Work with 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 FAST products 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.

Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluation, and Documentation

• Ensure the community champions (LVCD, EWV, and S4T) have 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) on a monthly basis.
• Prepare weekly updates, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, and annual progress reports.
• Document key lessons learned 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 monitoring and evaluation of THRIVE activities in coordination with M&E and relevant stakeholders.
• Support farmer records digitization process and performance tracking in collaboration with community resource persons and relevant private actors.
• Together with farmers and partners, conduct regular reflection and learning events.
• Support the project data collection during baseline, end-line, market assessments, and post-distribution assessments.

Strategic Engagement, Partnership, and Networking

• Develop and update digital farmer records in place.
• Facilitate linkages of the farmers' groups to micro-finance institutions and skills development initiatives.
• Strengthen partnerships with the county government and other partners for effective support and capacity development of the farmers for sustainability.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Diploma certificate in Agriculture/Agricultural Economics/Agricultural Education and Extension/Developmental Studies or equivalent.
• Minimum of two years’ experience working with communities in either relief or development Livelihood and Resilience/Food Security projects.
• Good 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).
• Ability to take initiative, a team leader able to work with minimum supervision.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity and emotional maturity.
• Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender and other key issues in economic empowerment.
• Able to ride a motorbike with a valid license.

Skills Required:

• Agricultural / Studies
• Economics / Statistics
• Education / Teaching / Training