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• Under
  the guidance of the project coordinator, act as the focal point and
  advocate for mainstreaming of poverty, gender and youth targeting
  throughout project activities
• Ensure
  that the project activities are implemented in an integrated manner and
  take into account the needs of the local communities and the poor
  households
• Technically
  support local governments and other implementing partners to integrate
  cross cutting issues into project activities to ensure that correct
  targeting is done
• Overall
  responsibility for overseeing the contracting of training of trainers
  (TOT) for local government staff and CBFs in participatory rural appraisal
  skills linked to the initial village situation analysis and beneficiary
  selection process
• Support
  the DCDOs in each district to plan and undertake community mobilization,
  sensitization, community entry, situation analysis, social and
  institutional mapping, wealth ranking, and assessment of existing
  community groups as a basis for beneficiary selection
• Take
  responsibility for identification and overseeing the contracting of ToT
  for roll-out of training for CDOs, CBFs and farmer groups in Gender Action
  Learning Systems (GALS) for value chains
• Take
  responsibility for technical oversight and contracting of an implementing
  partner to train CDOs, CBFs and farmer groups in appropriate business
  action planning, financial literacy and record keeping for
  illiterate/semi-literate people
• Take
  responsibility for overseeing and back-stopping the sub-component on Poor
  Household (HH) Support, including but not limited to technical support for
  contracting of a service provider for update of the HH mentoring guide and
  trainer’s manual including mainstreaming of GALs visioning and PRA tools
  and direct training of district CDO staff and HH mentors.
• Steer
  the process of identifying the poor households to be mentored and
  subsequently benefit from food security grants provided by PRELNOR and
  provide technical support to the districts in the mentoring of selected
  households. Provide technical support to the districts in the mentoring of
  selected households and assisting them to graduate.
• Actively
  monitor the implementation of the services and the outcomes achieved by
  the local service providers with regard to farmer group composition,
  social inclusiveness, internal cohesion and reciprocal trust
• Under
  the guidance of the PMU agribusiness specialist, take responsibility for
  overseeing the contracting of implementing partners for youth income
  generating activities related to agricultural services such as seed
  multiplication, crop protection, agro-processing, transport and marketing.
• Work
  in liaison with district and sub-county community development officers,
  assess candidates, proposed by DFA Executive Boards, to be trained as
  project lead trainers (PLTs)
• Actively
  monitor the implementation of the services and the outcomes achieved by
  the local service providers
• In
  charge of developing an overall communication strategy for the project to
  enhance transparency and accountability of district staff and service
  providers to the local communities.
• Ensure
  that communication materials about the project activities are developed
  for the mobilization of communities and interest groups.
• Ensure
  that the information provided during the mobilization process e.g.
  newsletters, radio broad casts and productions is appropriate and accurate
• Build
  and maintain working relationships with the GoU ministry(s) responsible
  for gender, community development and youth affairs
• Support
  the MEL specialist to monitor the effectiveness of poverty, gender, youth
  and vulnerable group targeting and to draw lessons
• Perform
  any other duties and assignments relating to PRELNOR as may be assigned by
  the project coordinator.

• The
  Community Development Specialist should preferably hold a Master’s degree
  in social sciences / or a field related to rural community development
  from a recognised University / Institution.
• A
  minimum of ten years’ experience in community development and applied
  gender mainstreaming at project / or institutional level.
• Prior
  experience with poverty, gender and youth targeting in agriculture-based
  rural development programmes. Mastery of Participatory Rural Appraisal,
  experience in designing and implementing successful communication and
  knowledge management strategies for sustainable development.
• Familiarity
  with household mentoring approaches and GALS.
• Skills
  and knowledge of rural development project management and implementation
• Computer
  literacy skills
• Strong
  inter-personal skills
• Excellent
  analytical skills
• Self-motivated
  and creative thinker
• Demonstrated
  ability to work in teams
• Strong
  social skills and open-minded
• Ability
  to work independently and with limited supervision and to deliver work
  under pressure

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