BACKGROUND
Farm Africa vision is a prosperous rural Africa. We are a specialist development NGO working with smallholder farmers, forest communities, local government and private sectors across East Africa for the last 30 years. With community engagement underpinning our approach, we design and implement sustainable solution to rural poverty based on evidence and best practices. In 2015 we reached approximately 1.8 million pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, farmers and forest dwellers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Farm Africa has worked in Ethiopia for over 28 years, throughout Oromia, SNNPR, Benishangul, Tigray and Afar regions. With funding from a range of institutional donors and foundations including DFID, EU, Irish Aid, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Comic Relief, Barr Foundation, and Ashden Charitable Trust, we have implemented a large portfolio of projects primarily focusing on three areas: agriculture (crop and livestock production), natural resource management, and market engagement. We implement projects directly with communities and these three approaches are further enhanced with integration of cross cutting issues such as climate change, gender and capacity building.
With almost 100 staffs in Ethiopia we align our work closely with regional and local government, civil society and the private sector. In addition to directly implementing projects within our core thematic expertise, we build local civil society organizations (CSOs) both to enhance development impact at community level and increase accountability and professional project management. As such Farm Africa directly contributes to the government of Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan and implementing its climate resilient green economy (CRGE) strategy.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Farm Africa is a specialist international non-governmental organization working in remote and resource-poor rural areas to reduce poverty. Farm Africa Ethiopia has recently been awarded a grant for the Aid Direct to be implemented from March 2018.
The Community Development Facilitator will provide liaison and linkage between the Aid Direct Project and community in order to facilitate the full participation of the community. The main functions will be to arrange community meetings, assist in ensuring that information about programme activities and approaches reaches all members of the community, ensure the effective implementation of community level activities and support the feedback of learning, monitoring and evaluation results. The role provides organisational support playing a facilitation role in communities. The post holder will support the delivery of technical information and best practice supporting awareness and linkage. An active role will be played in:
She/he will work closely with Kebele, Private sector organisations, community leaders, committees and local government development agents. She/he will take part in community meetings for information gathering and exchange and carries out participatory planning and support field implementation.
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
These essential functions are not to be interpreted as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job related duties as required.
All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established.
REPORTS TO: L4L Project Coordinator
STAFF REPORTING TO POSTHOLDER: None
LOCATION: SSNPR (2x)
DURATION: One year with possibility of extension
Essential
Good knowledge of gender and social inclusivenessExperience
Minimum of 3 years practical experience in agriculture, rural / economic development, livestock ,pastoralist and / or natural resources management in similar organisations
Skills & abilities
VALUES
Farm Africa seeks to employ those who believe, as we do, that farmers can and will play a key role in achieving long-term rural prosperity in Africa and who seek to deliver on those beliefs by
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