Female Social Mobilizer- Afghan Nationals Only

Conduct community visits and support livelihood transitions

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Overview

Conduct community visits and support livelihood transitions

You have:

Bachelor’s Degree in agriculture, Horticulture, Agronomy or Agriculture Extension
At least 2 - 3 years of progressive work experience in similar roles
Experience in agricultural marketing and business linkages
Experience in developing agriculture/horticulture-based training curricula
Good spoken and written skill in English, Pashto and Dari

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Job Description

General Duties:

- Conduct visits to resettlement-affected households to establish strong relationship with the households and related stakeholders and line department. - Collect reliable and accurate data from households and individuals and support households to develop their household livelihood transition plans. - Deliver key messages and help households to understand their livelihood transition and be in charge of verifying the data from the households. - Participate in all community related event of the project. - Maintain good coordination with relevant governmental stake holder, local leaders and community representatives for smooth implementation of the program activities. - Ensures that beneficiaries and local populations understand the Food Security and Livelihoods Program projects’ goals and agree with the implementation process. - Ensures proper training and supervision of the community’s volunteers/daily workers who will take part in the project.

Specific Duties:

- Provide regular update on his/her project work plan to the line manager. - Follows up and supports the sensitizations for the beneficiaries or community’s members according to the identified needs. - Attends regular community meetings in the assigned area. - Collects, enters, and analyzes his/her team necessary food security data according to the need of the program. - Ensure project activities are carried out in the field on time and with high quality. - Extracts and passes on compiled statistics on livelihoods activities (beneficiary, cards, assessments, monitoring, etc.) to his/her line manager. - Develops the first draft of success stories/ best practices documentation in line with livelihoods activities. - Report any community information, problems, issues to his/her direct and or indirect supervisor concerning his/her task. - Participate internal and external project meeting and share the meeting minute. - Undertake other related tasks assigned by line manage

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree in agriculture, Horticulture, Agronomy or Agriculture Extension - At least 2 - 3 years of progressive work experience in the similar roles in the field of food security and nutrition, livelihoods, agricultural extension, value chain and marketing projects with INGO or Afghan NGOs. - Experience in agricultural marketing and business linkages; delivery of field level extension activities; organizing trainings and delivery; and training received in related subjects - Experience in developing agriculture/horticulture-based training curricula, agriculture value chain, marketing and business development. - Experience in facilitating agricultural extension methodologies particularly Farmers Field School and Self-help Groups with demonstration of participatory research and technology development following Demonstration farms is preferred. - Understanding on research and survey methodologies, designing, and implementing food security and nutrition survey, value chain study and market assessment is required. - Good spoken and written skill in English, Pashto and Dari Languages and possess good skills in report writing

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Potential interview questions

Can you describe a time you effectively engaged a community in a project?	This question assesses your ability to build relationships and coordinate with community stakeholders.	Provide a clear example detailing your approach and the impact it had on the community.
How do you ensure accuracy in data collection from households?	This question evaluates your attention to detail and data management skills.	Pro members can see the explanation.
What strategies would you use to train community volunteers?	Pro members can see the explanation.	Pro members can see the explanation.