Community Development Worker @Unknown

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Location of Work: Kamba Zuria & One for Zalla woreda

Purpose of this role is to enable project activities implementation at field level for landscape restoration and livelihood intervention objectives effectively achieved at grassroots level in collaboration with district and village level stakeholders.

Major Responsibility

• Identify and delineate degraded communal lands for restoration intervention in collaboration with local administration and community leaders under project officer technical supervision.
• Identify and register vulnerable community groups/beneficiaries for communal land restoration and targeted livelihood interventions in participatory approach with local administrations and community leaders.
• Follow up and support fruit and multi-purpose tree seedlings production in government, group and individual nurseries, provide technical assistance in transportation to plantation sites and finally perform plantations through community mobilization.
• Assist and support project officer and government experts in qualitative and quantitative baseline and end line data collection and encoding for analysis. Assist project officer in community and stakeholders capacity building trainings.
• Provide technical support to the community in course of degraded landscape restoration activities implementation and livelihood options inaction. Conduct periodic progress assessments and Identify gaps and report to the project officer and community taskforces and seeking for timely solutions.
• Provide continues follow up on communal sites under restoration progresses and agroforestry plots at private farmstead, mobilize community for, SWC, fruit/tree Plantation, silviculcultural management and FMNR practices on the spot.

Qualification Required
Degree in NRM, Forestry, Community development, cooperative development and related fields.

Experience:

• 2 years’ experience on field level implementation of Landscape Restoration, Agroforestry, FMNR, local livelihood development, organizing community and field data collection in rural Context.
• Specific working experience on Community workers/facilitator is advantageous.
• Local familiarity and Motorcycle driving skill is required. 

Applicant Types Accepted:Local Applicants Only