Job: Project Facilitator. Deadline 10th August 2021

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Activity

End Results

10

Participate in the project planning, review, redesign, budgeting and implementation in the refugees’ camps and host communities, and ensure that cascaded targets are achieved with allocated resources

Project plans and budgets are produced and effectively implemented

20

Conduct identification of project volunteers and building their capacity, motivating and coordinating them for enrolling, mentoring, and monitoring beneficiaries of the project.

Facilitate formation of savings and credit groups and ensure the participation of the project targeted beneficiaries

Sufficient project volunteers are identified, empowered, coordinated, and facilitated to support the project.

10

Ensure enrolment and profiling of project beneficiaries in LMMS or other database and/or monitoring software that are necessary for the project to effectively serve all beneficiaries and keep their records on how they will be progressing out of poverty

Households profiled and supported

30

Facilitate all project beneficiaries to attend basic trainings and regular dialogues on Empowered World View, Entrepreneurship and Gender to ensure that they have enough learning opportunities to change their mindset towards poverty and wealth creation 

Beneficiaries worldviews and mindset changed to adopt productive and saving friendly behaviors

10

Mobilize all beneficiaries to join socioeconomic networks such as Saving Groups and producer groups that will help them learn from each other, and synergistically work together to enhance their livelihoods.

All beneficiaries belong to a Saving Group and another socioeconomic network. 

30

Ensure that all project beneficiaries participate in technical trainings organized under approved resilience and livelihood models which is relevant to their chosen livelihoods’ activities.

Beneficiaries are provided with relevant technical skills to perform better in their livelihoods’ activities

10

Prepare the project beneficiaries and facilitate them for accessing productive assets through the cash transfer approach to support their livelihoods initiatives 

Beneficiaries facilitated to access productive assets through cash transfer

5

Collect data on all the project activities and sharing them on regular basis with the project M&E specialist and other relevant staff in the organization

Data on all the project activities collected and shared on regular basis

5

Contribute and participate in periodic evaluations of the savings groups (Effectively document all information related to project successes and best practices, create a bank of pictures, videos, and most significant change stories on the project)

Best practices and success stories are documented

Required Professional Experience

1. At least 3 years of experience working with economic development sectors
2. Demonstrate ability to foster partnerships with refugee camps, community and/or Government agencies and groups
3. Must be amiliar with economic development models e.g. Saving Groups, Local Value Chain Development (LVCD), Business Facilitation, (BF), Microfinance, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture (NSA), Farmer Managed Natural Resources (FMNR), Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), , and CBDRM.
4. Ability to construct, interpret, critique budgets and track expenditure; strong financial/budgeting skills.
5. Report writing skills
6. Strong group facilitation and training skills
7. Good monitoring skills

Required Education,

training, license,

registration, and

certification

1. Bachelors’ degree in Agribusiness, Rural Development, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or any other related field.

2. Having a driving license class A.

Preferred Knowledge

and Qualifications

1. Financial Management and economic development skills
2. Knowledge of community development, empowerment and mentoring approaches
3. Demonstrated experience in community economic development and management(own business or by providing business development services), experience with small business financing, market analysis and market research
4. Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation; knowledge of monitoring and evaluation tools such as log frames, monitoring and software such as Cobo Toolbox. 
5. Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office and Outlook. 
6. Experience in Networking
7. Business-oriented mindset