Community-Based Facilitators

Required Qualifications

• Experience working in refugee settlements or rural community development programmes.
  

• Basic knowledge of agriculture, livestock, or sustainable land management practices.
  

• Experience supporting Farmer Field School activities, group mobilisation or adult learning sessions.
  

• Ability to collect data accurately using paper based or digital tools.
  

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse communities.
  

• Understanding of safeguarding, inclusion and conflict sensitive approaches.
  

• Fluency in written & Spoken English and at least one local language spoken in the settlement (such as Swahili, Acholi/Luo, Kinyabwisha, Arabic, Lingala, Madi or French).
  

Desirable

• Additional training in agriculture, community development, participatory extension or related fields is an added advantage.
  

• Mobilise beneficiaries for trainings, demonstrations, input distribution and other project activities.
  

• Support the rollout of Farmer Field Schools and Farmer Institutional Development sessions using approved training materials.
  

• Provide routine follow up visits to farmer groups and individual households to reinforce climate smart crop, livestock and land management practices.
  

• Assist in establishing and maintaining demonstration plots for crops, livestock units and beneficial insect enterprises.
  

• Support data collection using project approved tools, including attendance sheets, adoption tracking, input redemption forms and geo referenced photos.
  

• Assist in preparing beneficiaries for e-voucher input distribution and coordinate with agro-dealers and settlement structures.
  

• Support implementation of nutrition education sessions, kitchen garden activities and cooking demonstrations as guided by technical officers.
  

• Facilitate community level grievance reporting and direct cases to the grievance redress structure.
  

• Promote inclusion and participation of women, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities in project activities.
  

• Support environmental awareness, Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices, and community mobilisation for soil and water conservation activities.
  

• Participate in joint supervision visits, review meetings and learning sessions with technical staff and district authorities.
  

• Report field challenges promptly and provide feedback from farmer groups to technical officers.