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• Take part in planning and budgeting,
  preparation of work plans, implementation of food security and
  community/livelihoods planned activities and monitoring/ reporting of
  progress and document lessons learned.
• Offer technical advice on best practices
  and approaches to sustainable food security and community resilience/
  livelihoods programming.
• Facilitate, provide technical backstopping
  and monitor the implementation of planned activities and community level
  engagements.
• Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of
  stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other
  fora.
• Identify local level partners 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.

• Take overall lead in the coordination of
  field level activities
• Ensure Small holder farmers’ groups are
  mobilized, organized and strengthened into strong business
  groups/cooperatives (rural producer cooperatives, marketing cooperatives,
  Savings groups/Savings and Credit Cooperatives) for bulk purchase of
  inputs, value addition, bulking and collective marketing of produce
• The incumbent will develop the farmer’s
  capacity to improve production and productivity of selected enterprises of
  desired quality by the market through demonstrations to farmer’s
• Establish and follow up demonstrations to
  facilitate production and productivity among the farmers
• Organize quarterly review meetings for
  partners and communities at the project sites to reflect on
  programmes/projects approaches, tools, impact of interventions, best
  practices, exit and sustainability strategies as well as create spaces and
  opportunities for action-learning and debate.
• Coordinate partners in implementation of
  agreed action plans.
• Lead the monitoring and evaluation of all
  the partnership activities
• Link farmers to financing opportunities
  from government and existing Micro Finance Institutions
• Provide training and backstopping on
  gender to partners
• Provide technical training and capacity
  building efforts for the farmers in collaboration with other parties
• Innovatively support communities including
  Registered Children (RC) households to participate and benefit from the
  programme development.
• Sensitize community on sponsorship (RC
  guardians, community leaders and other community members) and facilitate
  participation in the sponsorship management project.
• Build the capacity of farmers’ business
  groups/cooperatives to collectively engage local leaders on identified
  issues.
• Follow-up on commitments by leaders on
  improvement of the wellbeing of children.
• Mobilize communities to participate in
  annual agricultural events – such as agricultural shows, World Food Day

• Monitoring of Care givers of RCs and
  ensure they are members of farmer business groups/cooperatives and are
  accessing business developments services and RCs are benefiting.
  Monitoring and follow up of the child wellbeing outcomes.
• Take part in monthly / quarterly
  reflection meetings with Child Monitors and guardians/parents and child
  protection committees to address findings from monitoring.
• Work with Supervisor to identify, train
  monitors and partners

• Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse
  cases and report any incidents in line with child protection policy and
  guidelines.
• Work with local leaders to protect
  children from child violations and abuses
• Sensitize children including RCs,
  guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and
  responsibilities. 

• The ideal candidate for the World Vision
  Community Development Assistant – Livelihoods and Resilience career
  opportunity should hold a diploma in agriculture or agribusiness or any
  other relevant discipline.
• At least two years’ experience in
  community work and engagement, Agricultural, Economic Development and
  Livelihood
• Entrepreneurship, micro-finance and strong
  agribusiness skills
• Computer literacy skills
• Excellent writing and reporting skills
• Good networking and influencing skills
• Ability to communicate in applicable local
  language(s)
• Passion for children.
• Track record demonstrating high integrity,
  reliability and dependable
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

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