The District Officer (Agriculture Expert) will support community engagement, conducting project surveys and Trainings, distribution of inputs, conducting awareness-raising sessions, and resolution of community-level issues. The role ensures transparent, inclusive implementation at the grassroots level.
Main Responsibilities
- Conduct baseline surveys in the target communities of the project and developing and implementing community mobilization plan.
- Beneficiary selection, beneficiary verification and beneficiary registration with MEAL unit and project manager.
- Provide relevant technical guidance on agriculture, livestock and Income generation, including leading participatory community livelihoods assessments.
- Engaging and building strong relationships with community members, analysing data collected to identify the eligible beneficiaries.
- Maintains good working relations with authorities and related stakeholders
- Prepare distribution and implementation plans, take the necessary approvals from the various units including project manager, security manager and program.
- Ensure quality of project intervention and provision of the awareness sessions and inputs distribution.
- Facilitate trainings /orientation on agriculture and livestock to initiate viable income generation activities.
- Coordinate closely with the project manager to ensure timely implementation of the project activities and get readiness for timely distribution of inputs for the target communities.
- Collect community mobilization and training data and assists Project Manager in data analysis and interpretation and report development.
- Ensure the integration and consistent application of sound community development principles and 'Do No Harm' practices throughout all stages of project implementation
- Report community mobilization, monitoring, training, and observation information to project Manager
- Document field achievements, innovations, failures, and lessons learned to integrate into project activities and inform project strategy.
- Conduct market linkage between Community and local provincial market.
- Under the guidance of MEAL manager, establish the complaints response mechanisms (CRM) at community level.
