Field Coordinator -WEE, October 2022 – NGO Jobs

Description

Heifer International is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

FUNCTION
The Field Coordinator’s overall role is to work with communities to collectively bring about social change and improve livelihoods. The Field Coordinator will support the Program Manager in ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of the Women Economic Empowerment Project. S/he will engage in effective planning and budgeting, provide training, monitor progress, provide technical advice, evaluate, and report on activities and results in the assigned project areas and in alignment with the program plans, goals and other donor deliverables. The project has a strong component of monitoring, evaluation and learning. The Field Coordinator will support the process monitoring, internal evaluation and learning for the project in collaboration with the MELs Officer. The Field Coordinator will also assist in ensuring smooth coordination of activities by Heifer International Zambia and its partner organizations. The Field Coordinator will play a key role in ensuring technical support to farmer organizations especially as regards to gender transformation, transformative leadership and business development.

ESSENTIAL CHARACTER TRAITS
Behave ethically; communicate effectively; creativity/Innovation; foster teamwork: compassion; generosity; humility, openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DELIVERABLES

A. Capacity Development of farmer organizations, Cooperative members, community members to continuously set, achieve and sustain their own development goals (30%)

• Build the capacity of partners (SHGs/Producer, District Farmers’ Association, Cooperatives/Associations, public and private sectors) in consultation with the Program Manager, on all aspects of Social Capital Development, Governance, agricultural value chain management, Climate-Smart Agricultural/Conservation Agriculture activities including services, technologies, MIS, marketing channels.
• Develop capacity building materials and operationalization of the business and marketing plans in the business hubs.
• Design, track and review the implementation of enterprise development, and farmers preparedness to receive project resources/assets.
• Train partners/farmers on respective cross-cutting themes, g., gender, agro-ecology, HIV/AIDS, VBHCD & Market-driven approaches.
• Train Cooperatives or Producer Groups on Planning, Governance, and

DELIVERABLE

• Established and functional network of Producer Groups and Cooperative.

B. Promote Gender relations and women empowerment (25%)

• Conduct awareness campaigns on women’s empowerment
• Promote Village Savings and Loans Groups
• Facilitate linkage of women to micro finance institutions

DELIVERABLE

• Increased Women and girls’ agency
• Improved Gender Relations at household and community level
• Increased women and girls’ access to and control over productive resources

C. Monitoring Learning and Evaluation (15%)

• Collect data and maintain a good recording system on the performance of farmer cooperatives/Associations for inclusion in reports and databases.
• Evaluate and incorporate learning practices from project implementation
• Monitor and make follow-ups through frequent visits to participating households and communities.
• Prepare periodic reports and document best practices and lessons learned.
• Organize periodic PSRP/CLA reflection, learning sessions and document best practices, lessons learned and challenges
• Capture state-of-the-art project success stories with pictures

DELIVERABLE

• A high-quality and functional M&E and reporting system in place
• Conducted peer/exchange, Monitoring, and Control visits periodically.
• Written and submitted high-quality reports and success stories periodically.
• Improved iterative work plans and budget from PSRP/CLA information.

D. Value Chain Development (25%)

• Facilitate cohesive market relationships among identified actors in the value
• Facilitate farmer training on Postharvest loss management and technologies
• Facilitate linkages between domestic and external markets with aggregation points.
• Facilitate the building of community assets.
• Build a Market Information System or data base with production, sales, and demand data and information per project location
• Identify and train respective value chain actors.

Facilitate the establishment of Marketing Information Systems among value chain actors.

DELIVERABLE

• Established network and aggregation point for farmers farm outputs.
• Mobilized physical assets for marketing and Value
• Conducted value chain and investment analyses for selected commodities.
• Established and strengthened linkages between the staff of the line Ministries, private sector (input dealers, processors, buyers, and retailers), and the farmers.
• Periodically shared market information

E. May perform other job-related duties as assigned (5%)

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Natural Resource, Development Studies plus three (3) years’ work experience.  Experience in Community Development work and Agri-business.

Preferred Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Science/Social and Community Development Studies, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource, Development Studies and any related science from recognized institutions plus three (3) years’ experience in Community Development work and Agri-business.

Most Critical Proficiencies

1. Good analytical skills.
2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
3. A good understanding and sensitivity to issues associated with poverty, hunger and environment, and knowledge of the context to which non-profit organizations operate.
4. The computer is proficient in word processing, spreadsheets, presentation tools, electronic mail software.
5. Strong organizational skills.
6. Demonstrated written and oral fluency in English.

Essential Job Functions and Physical Demands

1. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
2. Ability to establish priorities and work with minimum supervision.
3. Excellent facilitation skills.
4. Computer literate in the use of common packages for word processing and excel.
5. Licensed driver or rider.
6. Ability to travel away from home at short notice and for long periods.
7. Flexible and able to work independently to meet deadlines.
8. Constant face-to-face, telephone and electronic communication with colleagues
   and stakeholders.
9. Fluent in English and Bemba.
10. Commitment to organizational goals and vision of Heifer Zambia.
11. Mature and ability to resolve group conflicts.
12. Sensitive to social issues such as gender and HIV/AIDS.

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