Founded in 1961, PCI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing health, ending hunger, overcoming hardship, and advance women and girls around the world. PCI has been registered and working in Ethiopia since 2005. PCI has five decades of experience and demonstrated impact in long-term development and community health, and 40 years of experience managing large-scale US Government (USG) grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. It manages a portfolio of integrated programming that includes significant projects addressing food, nutrition, and livelihood security; community based DRR, climate change, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health; HIV/AIDS; other diseases; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and humanitarian assistance/disaster risk reduction programs.
AfriScout is an innovative, Base of Pyramid (BOP) social enterprise and a subsidiary of PCI. AfriScout is seeking to improve climate-smart management of northern Ethiopia’s drylands and the livestock that rely on them by scaling access and use of AfriScout, a mobile application that provides pastoralists with actionable grazing data. With the support of USAID, Google, and other donors, PCI developed grazing maps that fuse traditional livestock herding knowledge and practices with real-time satellite imagery on vegetation and water that is then integrated into an android-based mobile application. Since its inception, PCI and AfriScout have reached over 11,000 users. Through the investment of USAID, among others, PCI aims to expand its reach and build a financially sustainable social enterprise.
JOB SUMMARY:
The community engagement coordinator will be a part of a DRM team that is enhancing the way pastoralists make migration decisions by providing relevant digital information. Project Concern International (PCI) seeks to recruit an individual who is mission-driven, passionate and experienced in community engagement and mobilization, and is excited about the opportunity to work on a social enterprise project that could have huge impact for some of the most marginalized populations in Ethiopia and across the continent. The social enterprise will be focused launching the AfriScout mobile app in Ethiopia and further integrating its use in the participatory rangeland management system. The successful candidate’s assignment will involve some aspects of sales, marketing, and field-level management, customer education and adoption, zonal stakeholder engagement & management, zonal monitoring and evaluation, and quality assurance.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Stakeholder engagement
Mapping of community grazing areas
Product launch and orientation in assigned counties
Supervision
Sales and Marketing
Performance monitoring and reporting
Participatory Rangeland Management
Other duties as assigned
POSITION PARAMETERS/SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES REQUIRED:
Reports to: AfriScout/PRM Regional Coordinator
Responsibility Woredas: Operational Woredas in Liben and Dawa Zones
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: