PAFID - Conservation Agriculture Regional Program (PAFID-CARP)
Participatory Approaches for Integrated Development (PAFID) is a nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities in Kenya to break longstanding cycles of poor crop production methods that lead to soil degradation, food insecurity and inadequate nutrition.
PAFID’s mission is to improve food security, nutrition and incomes of small holder farming communities in Kenya by advancing better farming techniques, and encouraging their adoption.
Using simple replicable methods, communities can improve livelihood inequalities whilst practicing innovative climate change and global warming mitigation techniques.
PAFID is currently implementing Conservation Agriculture Regional program (CARP) whose goal is to support enhancement of climate resilient conservation agriculture and other sustainable natural resource management systems in Kenya.
PAFID is seeking to recruit Field Officers for its CARP project in Kenya.
The field officer is responsible for implementing the objectives of PAFID CARP project at the community level utilizing participatory approaches.
S/He will be based at the division level at the project site.
Specific responsibilities include:-
- Conduct farmer contact meetings and follow up meetings
- Facilitate the selection and recruitment of lead farmers
- Provide training and support to lead farmers and farmer groups
- Develop and coordinate contacts with agro dealers working in the relevant areas to ensure closer collaboration
- Developing work plans, budgets, timelines and deliverables;
- Maintaining critical relationships with the Ministry of Agriculture and other local partners;
- Ensure that work plans, budgets, monthly reports, program monitoring and evaluation and other program reports are completed on time.
- Document lessons learned and best practices
- Participate in monthly team meetings
- Continuously assess the training needs of farmers and various stakeholders and discuss these needs with field supervisors and project manager on regular basis.
- Participate in curricula design and development of participatory training techniques for lead farmers.
- Support farmer groups and link them to relevant agro dealers and other structures
- Participate in joint activities with other stakeholders e.g. Field days and agricultural shows
- Participate in joint monitoring and supervision visits with relevant ministry staff.
- Requirements: Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Tact and diplomacy in dealing with staff related to work environment needs.
- Ability to main effective working relationship with all levels of staff and public
- Must be computer literate.
- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
- Must have a valid motor cycle license and or willing to learn to ride.
- Prepared to be transferred to any location in Kenya as directed by PAFID
Minimum requirement: Education and experience
- A bachelors’ degree in relevant field or a Diploma in community development with at least 2 years work experience in an agricultural related programs.
- Experience in community mobilization and working with farmers and farmer groups will be an added advantage.
- Computer proficiency and good command of oral and written English and Kiswahili language is Mandatory.
Qualified candidates are invited to email their applications together with a detailed CV with 3 professional referees and daytime telephone contacts by 15th June 2012 to:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.
PAFID is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
