Facilitates community-level implementation of Project #3318 by supporting households, farmer groups, VSLAs and local stakeholders to adopt improved agricultural, nutrition, livelihood and resilience practices.
Responsibilities
- Mobilize and engage participating households, farmer groups, VSLAs, community leaders and local government extension staff.
- Facilitate training, demonstrations and follow-up on conservation and climate-smart agriculture, soil fertility, pest and disease management, agroforestry and soil and water conservation.
- Support Mother-Baby Demonstration Plots, farmer field learning and farmer-to-farmer exchanges.
- Facilitate kitchen gardening, nutrition education, cooking demonstrations and improved small-livestock husbandry activities.
- Support VSLAs and clusters, financial literacy, household planning, agribusiness, collective marketing and produce aggregation.
- Promote women’s leadership, youth participation, gender-transformative dialogue and equitable household decision-making.
- Link farmers with extension officers, input suppliers, mechanization providers, financial service providers, traders and other partners.
- Collect and submit activity data, attendance records, participant feedback, field reports, consent-based photographs and success stories.
- Identify implementation challenges, safeguarding concerns, environmental risks and community feedback and report them appropriately.
- Monitor adoption of promoted practices, maintain community records and support project sustainability and exit planning.
Requirements
- Community mobilization and facilitation skills.
- Knowledge of smallholder farming systems and agricultural extension.
- Knowledge of conservation agriculture, climate-smart agriculture, nutrition and livelihoods programming.
- Participatory training and farmer engagement skills.
- Record keeping, activity reporting and basic computer or mobile data-collection skills.
- Fluent Kiswahili and working knowledge of English.
- Teamwork, initiative, reliability and practical problem-solving.
- Gender sensitivity and respect for community members.
- Ability to travel frequently and ride a motorcycle.
Document Requirements
- Resume
- Certificate
- NIDA, birth certificate, passport-size photograph
Application Instructions
- Submit an application letter, updated CV, copies of academic and professional certificates, NIDA and birth certificate copies, contact details of three professional referees, a recent passport-size photograph and, where applicable, a recommendation letter from your church pastor.
- Address applications : The Diocesan Secretary, Africa Inland Church Tanzania (AICT), Geita Diocese, P.O.
- Box 523, Geita, Tanzania.
