Project Officer- Community Mobilization and Empowerment at Dorcas Aid International

• The person must have skills to work with a cross-border team in implementing project activities, training local leadership, and promoting and integrating climate resilient actions to enhance community resilience.

Specific Responsibilities.

Project Implementation & reporting

• Participate in planning and budgeting, preparation of workplans, and reporting using the available templates from the donor
• Implement and monitor planned project activities as per work plans and report progress to the Project Coordinator.
• Implement activities in project communication plan including collection, writing and sharing of human-interest stories quarterly.

Community Engagement and mobilization

• Work together with community leadership and relevant actors to develop a criterion for recruitment of project participants in line with donor requirements.
• Undertake a scan and inventory of all economic activities undertaken by community members and different groups within the project implementation area.
• Recruit and train different cadres of local leaders and administrators to render support to economic empowerment, cross border engagement, peace building and climate change.
• Map and mobilize various grassroot organizations and self-help groups that are undertaking income generating activities and promote business to business linkages.
• Establish and maintain transparent and functional relationships with the target communities by actively assessing risks and developing relevant mitigation actions.

Livestock development & alternative economic activities

• Facilitate capacity building of a milk cooperative to develop a sustainable value chain
• Enhance capacities of various self-help groups to improve governance, operations, strategic planning and financial management to widen their potential for alternative income generating activities
• Create and set up AgriTech and FinTech innovation Hub to offer digital skills to the youth for employment creation.
• Support communities to establish hydroponic forage production
• Promote market system development by assessing and addressing underlying factors under push, core market and pull factors that will impact various economic empowerment activities undertaken by the project

Coordination & Advocacy

• Participate in various coordination meetings with the government and other CSOs working in the project area.
• Capture and share emerging lessons to facilitate scale up and adaptive programming.
• Actively network and create sustainable relations with other economic empowerment programs.
• Work with various county thematic clusters to share information and coordinate project activities.

Core Competencies

• Displays sensitivity to cultural, religion, nationality and age dynamics
• Demonstrates highest standards of integrity
• Adhere to Dorcas value system
• Previous experience in Marsabit (especially Moyale area) is an added advantage