Job Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive gender-sensitive activity plan for empowering youth and women livestock farmers in the project area through Farmer Field Schools to be established and implemented through local organisations
• Develop realistic guidelines and criteria for mobilising, selection and organising the beneficiary women livestock farmers
• Ensure that the community outreach activities for the women livestock farmers through Farmer Field Schools are appropriate and tailored to meet their unique needs
• Support the Service Providers for the community outreach to articulate value addition and business opportunities, and requisite training needs for the different clusters of women livestock farmers
• Provide technical backstopping to the Project district teams and Service Providers and quality assurance of interventions being implemented through the Farmer Field Schools to enhance knowledge and skills of women livestock farmers in climate smart livestock production technologies and practices; safe and nutritious family food preparation; values addition and entrepreneurial skills.
• Plan/coordinate procurement and distribution of appropriate learning materials, biosafety items, assorted equipment and food processing kits for the women livestock farmer groups/clusters
• Support the district project teams and respective Service Providers to put in place a functional records and documentation system
• In collaboration with other Sectoral Specialists, ensure timely production and distribution of simple and well-illustrated appropriate Information, Extension and Communication (IEC) materials for the women groups
• Facilitate and undertake tailored capacity building for district project teams, Service Providers and Extension Workers
• In collaboration with the Provincial project team, support the district teams in the oversight and quality assurance in the implementation of Letter of Agreements with different Service Providers.
• Keep close track and completeness of all targets, identifying strategic linkages for sustainability completeness
• Conduct regular field visits to the project area and provide guidance on the ongoing interventions in the community outreach for the women livestock farmer groups.
• Facilitate production and collating of work plans and progress reports (monthly, quarterly, and final) on the community outreach for women livestock farmer groups
• In liaison with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) colleagues, document, report and develop database, based on the progress of trained beneficiaries’ information
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.