Community Development Officer at Farming Systems Kenya

Essential Character and Character traits
Born again Christian, result oriented, values committed, self-motivated, accountable and honest. Reporting to the Senior Programmes Manager the Community Development Officer will undertake the
following duties:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide trainings to the groups, CBOs on group dynamics and animal welfare.
• Assess and identify community capacity gaps, needs and root causes on equine husbandry and management practices and related social-economic needs.
• Develop and implement interventions to address the gaps, needs and root causes identified above in a sustainable manner.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions, and follow up with relevant adjustments.
• Continuously implement follow up actions or adjustments on the basis of information gathered from the evaluation above.
• Explore innovative capacity building methods, tools and techniques that are suitable and sensitive to distinct community groupings, demographics and contexts for sustainable behaviour change.
• Strengthen community-based structures among target equine owning communities that assure sustainable project interventions.
• Participate in identification of gaps in and value addition to resource and material requirements related to community engagement.
• Prepare for and deliver content during planned trainings, ensure learning capacity building road map; matching session plans for each training session; and conduct monitoring visits to follow up on the use of C4A tools.
• Mentor community animal welfare ambassadors.
• Participate from time to time in meetings or initiatives with other like-minded stakeholders in animal welfare and livelihoods sectors.
• Compile weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual Reports.
• Management of organization funds, accounting and financial reporting as per activities planned and carried out.
• Organize field days and outreach programs to farmers in collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Support in fundraising to ensure and support programme growth and project sustainability.

Knowledge and Skills Required

• Minimum bachelor degree in community development studies, social work, sociology, agriculture and human Ecology or related area of study
• Minimum 2 years’ field-based experience in community development, using sustainable and transformative approaches and tools
• Innovative and pro-active approach to resolving complex community needs
• Competencies in the application of participatory community approaches
• Good planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting skills
• Competencies in adult learning facilitation, planning and execution of workshop and training events
• Partnership-building, networking, collaboration and representation skills
• Proposal writing skills