Job Title:  District Facilitator – Kamuli  

Organisation: Farm Africa

Duty Station: Kamuli, Uganda

Reports To:  Project Coordinator

Salary: Not more than UGX 1,500,000 for monthly tasks based on experience of delivery.

Duration & Hours: 7 months fixed-term contract, full-time, renewable

Nature of contract: Consultancy

About Organisation:

Farm Africa is a leading charity that works in partnership with smallholder farmers and small businesses in eastern Africa to improve the quality, quantity and value of their produce, so that they can support their families with more resilient livelihoods. We build the positive case for farming in harmony with nature, so that increasing yields goes hand in hand with restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

Job Summary:   The District Facilitator will be responsible for coordination, planning and implementation of the CASCADE project by Farm Africa at the district level. Your role will involve facilitating technical trainings, linkages, and catalyzing relationships behavior change that leads to healthy diets in households. You will work closely with women farmer groups (FFBS), women farmers, local government agencies, private sector, Community Based Facilitators, community leaders, partners and project staff to deliver high-quality training programs and support the adoption of healthy diets in households.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:   The key responsibilities of the district facilitator will be:

Training and Capacity Building:

• Monitor and backstop the community-based facilitators (CBFs) who are training the women groups/farmers through the Farmer Field Business School (FFBS) approach.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of FFBS learning sites to demonstrate improved farming techniques and technologies.
• Organize field visits and farmer field days for farmers to observe successful farming models and learn from experienced practitioners.
• Conduct interactive training sessions for trained community-based facilitators (CBFs) and farmers on various topics, including Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), post-harvest handling, Social Action Analysis (SAA), Nutrition, MIYCAN, conflict mitigation and safeguarding.
• Work closely with district nutrition focal persons, VHTs to facilitate BCC campaigns through radio, IPC, dialogues, cooking demos, and use of MIYCAN tools targeting women and children U5.
• Facilitate dialogues between Parish Development Committees (PDCs) and women farmer groups and link them with financing opportunities through government and non-government programs
• Collaborate with technical experts from NARO/MAAIF to train community group develop protocols for the certification of quality declared seeds (QDS), indigenous crop varieties, and other nutrient-dense crops

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Lead in organizing district level community meetings, awareness campaigns, and outreach activities.
• Collaborate closely with the relevant line departments in respective district local government, ensuring visibility, resource optimization, impact and sustainability.
• Coordinate the implementation of awareness campaigns through radio, interpersonal communication, and community dialogues targeting women and children
• Engage with the consortium partners, ensuring coordination, integration, layering and sequencing of activities
• Maintain regular contact with CBFs, farmers, provide updates on project activities, and address any concerns or queries.

Finance and Administrative Support:

• Assist in organizing and coordinating project meetings, inception workshop, other workshops, and trainings.
• Prepare agendas, take minutes, and maintain project documentation and records.
• Support with data entry, filing, and documentation management.
• Assist in budget tracking, expense monitoring, and financial reporting.
• Process project-related financial transactions, including payments, reimbursements, and procurement of goods and services.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Support the monitoring and evaluation of project activities in the respective district of operation.
• Assist in the development and implementation of monitoring tools, data collection activities including community feedback mechanisms, interviews, and focus group discussions. instruments, and evaluation frameworks.
• Contribute to the learning agenda, through documenting and disseminating best practices learnings to stakeholders, ensuring adaptive management; documenting, and disseminating reports, success stories, technical briefs to stakeholders.
• Contribute to regular progress reports and documentation.

• Degree/Diploma or equivalent in Agriculture, Nutrition, Livestock, Rural/Community Development, Agribusiness, Rural Livelihoods or other relevant field
• Fluency in the local languages spoken in Kamuli

Experience:

• At least 2 years community mobilization and engagement experience within farming community
• Experience of implementing climate smart agriculture, particularly food security and nutrition, interventions in community.
• Experience in gender transformative approaches such as VSLAs, GALs, SAA, Engagement of men and boys etc
• Demonstrable Experience in facilitation of Adult Learners

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and communities based on trust and collaboration
• Ability to ride a motorcycle with a valid riding licence
• Ability to communicate and share knowledge with a broad range of stakeholders with differing backgrounds and abilities.
• Energetic and assertive with a positive mindset
• Good community mobilizer with strong organizational skills

Desirable:

• Field level experience in community mobilization to participate in project activities, sensitization, designing and conducting trainings and promoting behaviour change for farming communities
• Field level experience in delivering CSA, nutrition, and diversified livelihoods, through engagement with community structures
• Experience promoting culture of savings among groups, and enhancing gender transformation.
• Experience of designing and conducting trainings using gender-sensitive techniques and methodologies
• Problem identification, analysis and solving of complex issues

To apply, please send a CV, salary history, and a two-page supporting statement detailing how you meet the person specification and your availability/notice period to ugandarecruitment@farmafrica.org including the job tittle in the subject line.

Please DO NOT send additional documents such as certificates and references with your application. Successful candidates ONLY will be required to provide these documents during the referencing process.

Due to the urgent requirement to fill this position, applications will be assessed and suitable candidates invited for interview on a rolling basis. This may mean that the position is filled before the closing date so qualified candidates are urged to submit their applications promptly.