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• Participate
  in planning and budgeting, preparation of work plans, implementation of
  planned activities and monitoring/ reporting of progress.
• Facilitate
  and monitor the implementation of planned activities and community level
  engagements.
• Mobilize
  and register target beneficiaries, re-organize them into farmer groups to
  access various support including capacity building, and seedloan planting
  material support
• Actively
  participate in project start up workshops, annual and semi-annual planning
  and review processes sharing sub-county progress and new plans
• Mobilize
  and facilitate the engagements of sub-county stakeholders during planning
  and development meetings, workshops and other fora.
• Identify
  local level partners including VHTs, teachers, health workers, religious
  leaders and support and facilitate the partners in the implementation of
  planned activities.
• Facilitate
  stakeholders and partners in supervision and monitoring of programmatic
  activities.
• Support
  the collection and documentation of impact and success stories.

• Mobilize
  and support communities including households with Children under five and
  mothers of reproductive age to participate and benefit from the project
  development.
• Support
  and facilitate the children clubs to plan for and hold meetings and
  conduct community outreaches (School, parish) on a regular basis and
  document findings
• Mobilize
  sub-county stakeholders and engage in dialogues for improved nutrition and
  health using biofortification
• Keenly
  mobilize and facilitate active participation of children and their
  communities in planning, monitoring and implementation of community
  development initiatives.
• Establish
  and functionalize at least a drama group per sub-county to create
  community awareness through seasonal drama shows.
• Mobilize
  communities to participate in annual events such as farmer open days,
  local seed and food fairs, food preparation and feeding competitions and
  child days plus.
• Mobilize
  and support local leaders, religious leaders, cultural leaders, technical
  teams and other stakeholders to participate in awareness campaigns
  including radio and other media shows, dialogues etc.
• Support
  functionality of sub-county nutrition coordination committees and share
  findings.

• Facilitate
  formation and coordination/registration of community structures including
  CRPs, VHTs, teachers into COVAs to help in project monitoring
• Maintain
  constant contact with the beneficiaries/farmers groups through such
  structures (CRPs, VHTs, and teachers) to ensure focus and progression in
  what they are doing.
• Actively
  participate in and support donor organized surveys and other studies
• Jointly
  conduct planning and review with sub-county stakeholders, monitoring
  visits for learning and awareness raising annually
• Keenly
  monitor seed access and recovery through seed loan and voucher system
• Collect
  relevant and accurate data monthly, quarterly for feeding into main
  database
• Participate
  in data tools development, review and testing for accuracy and reliability
• Actively
  participate in capacity building events organized by donor in fields to
  include Seeds systems, Nutrition, Marketing and Product development,
  Advocacy as and when called on
• Share
  monitoring outcomes with sub-county stakeholders during periodic
  reflections
• Compile
  and share quality monthly, quarterly and semi-annual reports with
  supervisor, supported by photos and progress stories

• Establish
  community technology dissemination strategies including sweet potato vine
  multiplication and conservation and multiplication of iron beans
• Establish
  demonstration plots at sub-county, health centres, schools for comparison
  of practices and learning practically
• Innovatively
  design experiments, conduct on-farm research geared at finding solutions
  to farmer needs
• Contribute
  ideas to articles and publications in media raising awareness on biofortification
  influencing various stakeholders

• The
  ideal candidate for the World Vision Community Development Assistant –
  MENU Project job opportunity should hold a Diploma in Agriculture,
  Nutrition, Rural Development or Degree in Development Studies, Adult and
  Continuing Education or any other relevant field. Additional training and
  exposure in community development, agronomy, community nutrition will be
  an added advantage
• A
  minimum of two years’ progressive experience in community development work
  in the fields of agriculture, food security, livelihood, nutrition with
  sound understanding of project implementation cycle
• Good
  networking and influencing skills
• Previous
  experience in documentation and evidence based/impact reporting
• Ability
  to work in a team to achieve excellence in execution, committed,
  accountable and passionate about the work we do.
• Show
  commitment to World Vision mission and partnership values and sensitivity
  to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.
• Good
  track record of demonstrating high integrity, reliable and dependable
• Able
  to ride a Motor Cycle with a valid riders permit-class A
• Able
  to communicate in the local language of the project area (Luo Language)

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