Reporting to: Project Coordinator
Project summary: FACT‘s livelihood project intends to empower young people in rural wards of Nyanga district with opportunities for livelihood initiatives, selfemployment and capacitating them with business management skills. Young people will be involved through a participatory approach to decide on livelihood interventions that suit them most, with the support of church and community leaders through the church and community transformation (CCT) process. The livelihood activities will largely focus on improving their farming/horticultural information and skills as well as other income-generating activities using the Self Help Group approach. To minimize the effects of climate change, the project will adopt climate-sensitive farming methods such as minimum tillage, mulching, the use of renewable energy for drawing irrigation water, and the adoption of organic farming.
Duties And Responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities:
• The LFO will be responsible for the overall rollout of livelihood activities in selected wards of the Nyanga district, ensuring project activities and milestones are well met.
• Work closely with relevant government ministries who will provide technical support during project implementation.
• Conduct Community mobilisation and training on farming/horticulture.
• Establish and monitor Self Help Groups.
• Develop project material and compile project reports and impact stories.
• Mobilising churches in the community to provide holistic ministry for their communities, through the church and community transformation (CCT) process.
• Supervise and should be able to work with community volunteers.
• Conduct monitoring and verification visits to project sites as well as update beneficiary database.
• The LFO is key in reducing the livelihood vulnerability of households and increasing their resilience to future shocks.
Qualifications And Experience
Qualifications and Experience
• At least a Diploma/Bachelor degree in Agriculture, agriculture economics, or any other related field from a recognized institution of learning.
• Specialized experience in working with savings groups.
• At least 2 years relevant experience in community development focusing on sustainable livelihood approaches, project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning.
• The incumbent must demonstrate experience of working with caregivers, young people and the socially excluded members of the community.
• Exhibit strong training; analytic; computer and report writing skills.
• The ability to ride a motorbike is an advantage
More Information
- Job Application Details How To Apply Interested candidates can submit application letter together with detailed CV to [email protected] by 24 February 2022. Please write – Livelihood Field Officer on the subject of your email. FACT commits itself to protecting children whom its staff, volunteers as well as outsiders may come into contact with. The organization’s mandate is to serve the best interest of all children through protection from abuse, harm and exclusion, child participation and development in all its programs. FACT is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in terms of race, tribe, place of origin, political opinion, color, creed, gender, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS status or, subject to the Disabled Persons Act [Chapter 17:01]. NB: Only short-listed candidates will be notified.
- This job has expired!
New Job Alert
Never miss a chance!
Let us know your job expectations, so we can find you jobs better!
Latest Tenders Update
Get Daily job updates in your email
Like us on Facebook
- (SRHR) Thematic Lead (2)
- Accounting (260)
- Administration Manager (1)
- Administrative (273)
- Agents (1)
- Agriculture (39)
- Anaesthesiologist (1)
- Apprenticeship (7)
- Artisans (4)
- Arts (2)
- ASSISTANT (4)
- Attachment (51)
- Audit Assistants (1)
- Auditing (18)
- Bank Tellers (1)
- Banking (18)
- Biotech (2)
- Bookkeeper (2)
- Building Caretaker (1)
- Business Development (75)
- Business Development Managers (2)
- Business management (57)
- Carpentry (6)
- Cashier (1)
- Catering (13)
- Chef (32)
- Chief Executive Officer (1)
- Civil Engineering (2)
- Cleaning (3)
- Clerk (6)
- College Intakes (1)
- Communications (57)
- Construction (50)
- Consultancy (50)
- Consultant (6)
- CONTRACTOR (1)
- Control Officer (1)
- Controller (2)
- Cooks (22)
- COORDINATOR (1)
- Copywriter (1)
- Customer Relations (1)
- Customer Service (14)
- Data Capturers (1)
- Data Entry (2)
- Designer (35)
- Developer (12)
- Development Officer (1)
- Director (5)
- DREAMS District Lead (1)
- Driver (152)
- Earth Moving Operators (3)
- Economics (18)
- Education (54)
- Electrician (28)
- Engineering (283)
- Environmental Health Officer (1)
- Executive (62)
- Farming (23)
- Finance (531)
- Fireman (1)
- Food Monitors (1)
- Food Technology (8)
- Gardener (3)
- GENERAL HAND (3)
- General work (79)
- geologist (3)
- Graduate Trainee (69)
- Graduate Trainees (17)
- Graphic Designer (13)
- Health & Safety (39)
- Health and Environment Officer (1)
- Health Care (43)
- Health Care (1)
- Health Officer (1)
- Hospitality (23)
- Hotel & Catering (28)
- HR (103)
- Human Resources (156)
- ICT (1)
- Industrial Attachments (5)
- Information Officer (1)
- Information Technology (310)
- Innovation Officer (1)
- Insurance (20)
- Intern (2)
- Internship (94)
- Invoicing and Cash Transfers Officer (1)
- IT (33)
- Journalism (20)
- Journeyperson – Originator (1)
- Kubatana Jobs (91)
- Lab Technician (16)
- Laboratory (1)
- Landscapers (1)
- Lawyer (1)
- Lectureship (3)
- Lecturing (77)
- Legal (75)
- LEGAL SERVICES (1)
- Librarian (10)
- Library and Information (1)
- Loan Officer (1)
- Loan Officers (2)
- Logistics Management (40)
- Machine Operator (1)
- Machinery (3)
- Machinist (1)
- Management (187)
- Manager (1)
- Manufacturing (8)
- Marketing (462)
- Mechanic (46)
- Mechanical Engineer (1)
- Mechanics (27)
- Media (31)
- Medical (61)
- Medical Laboratory Scientist (1)
- Medical Laboratory Technicians (1)
- Merchandisers (1)
- Metallurgist (1)
- Mining (58)
- Monitoring & Evaluation (34)
- Monitoring and Evaluation (26)
- NGO (554)
- Nurses (81)
- Nursing Training Intake (7)
- Officer (1)
- Operations (31)
- Others (8)
- PA (58)
- Pharmacists (11)
- Plumbing (6)
- Procurement (131)
- Production (1)
- Program Director (1)
- Programmer (2)
- Project Assistant (1)
- Project Management (84)
- Project/Study Coordinator (1)
- Property Officer (1)
- Protection and Accountability Officers (1)
- Protection Officer (1)
- PROVINCIAL HEAD (1)
- Public Relations (9)
- Purchasing (54)
- Quantity Surveyor (11)
- Real Estate (27)
- Receptionist (3)
- RECORDS OFFICER (1)
- REPORTERS (1)
- Research (31)
- Retail Management (10)
- Risk Management (36)
- Rural and Urban Planning (6)
- Sales (461)
- SALES EXECUTIVE (1)
- Sales Representatives (4)
- Secretarial (143)
- Security (58)
- SHE (28)
- Shop Assistants (1)
- Social Behaviour Change Advisor (1)
- Social Services (312)
- Software Engineer (2)
- Sports (8)
- Stores (32)
- Supervisor (12)
- Supply Chain (19)
- Surveying (6)
- Tailors (8)
- Teacher (2)
- Teachers' Training (5)
- Teaching (106)
- Team Leader (4)
- Technical (21)
- Technical Advisor (1)
- Technician (56)
- Tenders (2)
- Till Operators (1)
- Tourism (5)
- Tourism and Hospitality (35)
- Trainee (16)
- Trainer\ (1)
- Training (4)
- Training Officer (1)
- Translator (2)
- Transportation & Logistics (22)
- Travel Agency (3)
- Travel and Tourism (12)
- Typist (1)
- Videographer (1)
- Waiter /Waitress (15)
- WASH (1)
- Weighbridge Operator (1)
- Welders (7)
- Wildlife (2)
- Workshop (1)
- Writer (3)