District Facilitator – Kamuli – Jobs In Uganda

Reports To:  Project Coordinator

Salary:  Not more than UGX 1,500,000 for monthly tasks based on experience of delivery.

Duration & Hours:  7 months fixed-term contract, full-time, renewable

Key Duties and Responsibilities:   The key responsibilities of the district facilitator will be:

Training and Capacity Building:

• Monitor and backstop the community-based facilitators (CBFs) who are training the women groups/farmers through the Farmer Field Business School (FFBS) approach.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of FFBS learning sites to demonstrate improved farming techniques and technologies.
• Organize field visits and farmer field days for farmers to observe successful farming models and learn from experienced practitioners.
• Conduct interactive training sessions for trained community-based facilitators (CBFs) and farmers on various topics, including Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), post-harvest handling, Social Action Analysis (SAA), Nutrition, MIYCAN, conflict mitigation and safeguarding.
• Work closely with district nutrition focal persons, VHTs to facilitate BCC campaigns through radio, IPC, dialogues, cooking demos, and use of MIYCAN tools targeting women and children U5.
• Facilitate dialogues between Parish Development Committees (PDCs) and women farmer groups and link them with financing opportunities through government and non-government programs
• Collaborate with technical experts from NARO/MAAIF to train community group develop protocols for the certification of quality declared seeds (QDS), indigenous crop varieties, and other nutrient-dense crops

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Lead in organizing district level community meetings, awareness campaigns, and outreach activities.
• Collaborate closely with the relevant line departments in respective district local government, ensuring visibility, resource optimization, impact and sustainability.
• Coordinate the implementation of awareness campaigns through radio, interpersonal communication, and community dialogues targeting women and children
• Engage with the consortium partners, ensuring coordination, integration, layering and sequencing of activities
• Maintain regular contact with CBFs, farmers, provide updates on project activities, and address any concerns or queries.

Finance and Administrative Support:

• Assist in organizing and coordinating project meetings, inception workshop, other workshops, and trainings.
• Prepare agendas, take minutes, and maintain project documentation and records.
• Support with data entry, filing, and documentation management.
• Assist in budget tracking, expense monitoring, and financial reporting.
• Process project-related financial transactions, including payments, reimbursements, and procurement of goods and services.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Support the monitoring and evaluation of project activities in the respective district of operation.
• Assist in the development and implementation of monitoring tools, data collection activities including community feedback mechanisms, interviews, and focus group discussions. instruments, and evaluation frameworks.
• Contribute to the learning agenda, through documenting and disseminating best practices learnings to stakeholders, ensuring adaptive management; documenting, and disseminating reports, success stories, technical briefs to stakeholders.
• Contribute to regular progress reports and documentation.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Degree/Diploma or equivalent in Agriculture, Nutrition, Livestock, Rural/Community Development, Agribusiness, Rural Livelihoods or other relevant field
• Fluency in the local languages spoken in Kamuli

Experience:

• At least 2 years community mobilization and engagement experience within farming community
• Experience of implementing climate smart agriculture, particularly food security and nutrition, interventions in community.
• Experience in gender transformative approaches such as VSLAs, GALs, SAA, Engagement of men and boys etc
• Demonstrable Experience in facilitation of Adult Learners

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and communities based on trust and collaboration
• Ability to ride a motorcycle with a valid riding licence
• Ability to communicate and share knowledge with a broad range of stakeholders with differing backgrounds and abilities.
• Energetic and assertive with a positive mindset
• Good community mobilizer with strong organizational skills

Desirable:

• Field level experience in community mobilization to participate in project activities, sensitization, designing and conducting trainings and promoting behaviour change for farming communities
• Field level experience in delivering CSA, nutrition, and diversified livelihoods, through engagement with community structures
• Experience promoting culture of savings among groups, and enhancing gender transformation.
• Experience of designing and conducting trainings using gender-sensitive techniques and methodologies
• Problem identification, analysis and solving of complex issues

How to Apply:

To apply, please send a CV, salary history, and a two-page supporting statement detailing how you meet the person specification and your availability/notice period to  ugandarecruitment@farmafrica.org  including the job tittle in the subject line.