Introduction:
Human Appeal is an incorporated UK charity and a global humanitarian and development organisation. We save lives, alleviate poverty, transform and empower local communities whilst championing humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence and establishment of self-sustaining development programmes. Our vision is ‘’ to become the global agent of change for a just, caring, and sustainable world’’.
Position Summary:
The main purpose of the position involves facilitating the establishment and operation of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) as well as Climate Smart Livestock (CSL) sites. The position shall also include participating in capacity-building events, providing support for CSA and CSL initiatives, and facilitating training for Farmer Facilitators. The candidate will work closely with district teams and specialists, conduct regular field visits, and be responsible for project activities such as social mobilization, field assessments, beneficiary organization, and input distribution. This role requires travel to field locations.
- Facilitate field level interventions for establishment of Farmer Field Schools and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) as well as Climate smart livestock (CSL) sites.
- Facilitate and participate in capacity building events/ trainings on FFS, facilitation skills, farmer training curricula, monitoring methods, and others
- Provide support in introduction and establishment of CSA and CSL initiatives.
- Facilitate the Training of Farmer Facilitators (ToFF) and provide continuous backstopping to the Farmer Facilitator.
- Provide support to run the FFS/LFFS/CSA/CSL practices and facilitate ongoing project related activities in the selected district.
- Document, report and develop database, based on the progress of trained beneficiaries’ information.
- Identify and develop case studies and success stories for periodic reports.
- Responsible for project activities in the targeted area (social mobilization, field assessments, identification and organizing selected beneficiaries, promote CSA & CSL, distribution of various agriculture inputs in the selected villages, etc.).
- Enter FFS Facilitators and learner's data in Kobo database regularly to support Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Team to undertake pre and post monitoring of the FFS sites, learners and trainings offered.
- Closely work with district team lead/ supervisor and sectoral specialist for collection and compilation of all the information related to FFS/LFFS/CSA/CSL;
- Facilitate field level activities related to mobilization, formation and facilitation of FFS/CRAL in the target villages.
- Conduct regular field visits of the project area and provide guidance and recommendations for appropriate crops management and livestock area specific interventions for establishment of FFS/LFFS.
