Project Assistant Animal Health and Production at Church World Service

The project assistant will focus on providing technical training and extension services to project beneficiaries, including farmers and livestock keepers. The selected candidate will work closely with group leaders and local veterinary and livestock service providers and project officer and manager to enhance good agricultural practices and address the needs of local farmers.

Responsibilities

Program Administration (60%)

• Support implementation of food security and livelihoods project (Mwanga project) in Tana River County.
• Identify, profile and organize farmers into groups for purposes of undertaking project activities.
• Adapt and use approved training materials and ensure existing training materials are up to date.
• Provide comprehensive training to farmers on livestock husbandry, crop production and management.
• Provide agricultural extension services to respond to individual farmer needs as they arise and support adoption of agricultural technologies.
• Advise farmers to adopt best agricultural and livestock husbandry practices for poultry, goat, and beekeeping farmers.
• Participate in training lead farmers, support their coordination of farmer groups, and provide follow- up to ensure improved livestock husbandry and crop
• Identify local veterinary and livestock service providers and stakeholders for potential collaborations and linking farmers.
• Provide technical advice to farmers on livestock production and marketing of
• Provide regular project updates and reports both quantitative and qualitative for project reporting.
• Support the monitoring and evaluation exercises including baselines, annual and endline surveys.

Compliance (20%)

• Achieve and maintain a high-performance standard based on a thorough knowledge of, and adherence to, established CWS policies and procedures
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of suspected fraud, malfeasance, and data breaches and report any identified areas of significant compliance risk for the CWS program.
• Conduct regular process reviews for assigned processing stages to compare requirements vs. current processing and outputs and implement process changes based on the outcome of the process reviews.

Data Management and Analysis (15%

• Prepare comprehensive reports for internal use
• Maintain up to date project documents/file
• Contribute to reports and filters development for quality control checks to ensure they are accurate and used efficiently.

Additional Responsibilities (5%)

• Other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
• Support any project component supported by CWS.

Qualifications

Education & Certifications: 

• A Diploma in Animal Health and Production, Agricultural Education and Extension, Community Development, Livestock-related courses with three years’ experience is required
• KVB (Kenya Veterinary Board) Registration is require

Experience: 

• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in Animal Health and Production is required Agricultural Education and Extension, Community Development, Livestock or related field working with communities is required.
• Ability to diagnose and provide treatment for livestock including assessing distress or discomfort in livestock.
• Ability to provide advisories to mixed farmers on crop and livestock management and agribusiness.
• Ability to effectively and gently handle animals.
• Previous experience conducting community organization and training is required.
• Have a demonstrated ability to interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which includes willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinions and views.
• Ability to keep and maintain accurate records.
• Must have a valid category A2 driving license