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• Sensitise communities on what the project will do, including project
  methodologies and approach.
• Establish good relationship with local leaders and opinion leaders
  in the area.
• Coordinate mobilization and scheduling of community and/or group
  meetings.
• Facilitate participatory needs identification and problem analysis
  and planning exercises.
• Make follow-ups to review progress on implementation of the plans.
• Prepare reports on group and/or community planning processes in
  accordance with the project implementation plan.

• Promote linkages and cordial relationship with government officials
  and other NGOs
• Identify public and private sector service providers within the
  project area whose services and activities may be useful to the project
  beneficiaries
• Provide information to the beneficiary communities and groups on
  existing service providers and businesses in the area.
• Assist the PM in creating awareness on project activities and
  approach to government officials, businesses and NGOs in the project area.
• Perform any other assignment that may be given to you regarding
  linkages and liaison with other NGOs, private sector and government.

• Support groups formation and organisational development processes,
  including registration and development of constitutions and/or group rules
• Training group members and leaders in group dynamics, Prepare and
  conduct producer organization and association profiling and capacity
  assessment to identify needs including training and input needs.
• Develop and or improve training material
• Lead in training in Good Agronomy Practical (GAPs), soil and water
  conservation, farming as a business, postharvest handling, VSLA and value
  addition and in accordance with the training curriculum agreed.
• Train the refugees and host communities in nutrition education and
  including supporting them to establish permaculture/kitchen gardens.
• Link farmers to market players including input providers,
  post-harvest equipment, suppliers, financial institutions, market
  information providers, and buyers.
• Manage the implementation of agro-input voucher system activity.
• Lead organise farmers to engage seeds multiplication and local seeds
  business.
• Strengthen bulking and collective marketing,
• Contribute to the planning and carrying out exchange visits,
  conferences and farmer exhibitions on produce marketing.
• Conduct regular crop performance monitoring and provide technical
  production advice to producer groups.
• Conduct linkage of producers to market information providers.

• Sensitise communities on gender related issues.
• Identify and promote measures to enhance the participation of women
  and other marginalised groups in project activities
• Work closely with M&E coordinator to ensure gender concerns are
  manifested in the project M&E reports
• Do any other duties assigned to you by your supervisor concerning
  the maximisation of women’s and other marginalised groups’ involvement in
  project activities.

• Implement project M&E plans with support from PM and M&E
  coordinator
• Participate in data collection based on agreed M&E tools and
  processes as advised PM and M&E coordinator
• Facilitate learning, promote peer-learning between staff and
  partners, participate in relevant national networks and actively engage in
  organization level focal groups.
• Explore opportunities for positioning, innovation, upscaling and
  potential follow up projects
• Effective monitoring, reflection and evaluation system

• The prospective employee for the Self Help Africa (SHA) Project Field Officer job must
  hold a Diploma in any field (preferably agriculture, extension, social
  sciences, agribusiness, business administration or related disciplines)
• Demonstrated knowledge of community facilitation skills
• Experience in participatory market system programming and value
  chain analysis/Development of different agricultural commodities
• Broad knowledge and understanding of key aspects of SHA development
  work; including food, nutrition and livelihood security and cross-cutting
  themes (e.g. youth, social inclusion, environment, HIV and AIDS);
• Skills in training and facilitation of community processes,
  including organization and mobilization of communities and networking
  among different development partners such as youth groups, community-based
  organisations, government officers and SHA staff;
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
  management and organizational skills, including proficiency in computer
  packages especially with MSOffice and other related packages;
• Commitment to international and humanitarian NGO codes, standards
  and practises;
• High level of integrity and high standards of personal conduct;
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work as part of team across different cultures
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and take initiative
• Ability to solve problems and take corrective action

• Experience working in project geographical region
• Experience working with farmer groups and private sector actors

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