Social Mobilizer ( Afghan National Only)
Conduct visits to households and support livelihoods transition plans.
Overview
Conduct visits to households and support livelihoods transition plans.
You have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in agriculture, Horticulture, Agronomy or Agriculture Extension.
- At least 1-2 years of progressive work experience in similar roles in food security, 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.
- 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.
Job Description
- 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. - 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 1-2 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
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a time when you built a relationship with a community or stakeholders? | This question assesses your ability to engage and build trust within communities. | Provide a specific example of how you established rapport and maintained a positive relationship. |
| How do you ensure the accuracy of data you collect from households? | The interviewer wants to evaluate your data collection methods and attention to detail. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to communicate program goals to beneficiaries? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe your experience in organizing and facilitating training sessions. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you handle challenges faced during community meetings? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |