Vacancies at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Duties and responsibilities

• The enumerators' main responsibility is to tag trees using tablets. Specific activities will include:
• Attend enumerator training to gain a thorough and clear overview of the context, objectives, relevance, and tools to be used for the tagging exercise.
• Conduct tree tagging pretest and actual tagging on farmers’ fields.
• Participate in team review meetings at the beginning/end of each day’s assignment.
• Ensure the data collected from the farmer's field adheres to and complies with the required instructions to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and quality.
• Ensure that all project farmers within your enumeration area have their trees fully tagged, without leaving any assigned farmer uncovered.
• Understand, take responsibility for your tasks, and remain committed throughout the tagging exercise's period and process.
• Report and relay feedback as instructed and communicate any challenges to your supervisors.

Education, knowledge and experience

• Degree in forestry, natural resource management or related field.
• Knowledge of the names of diverse tree species native in Kitui and Baringo County
• Prior experience in conducting field tagging/surveys using Tablets and taking GPS coordinates/polygons.
• Good understanding of research ethics, confidentiality, and privacy.
• Good understanding of the local language is an added advantage.
• Available for the entire period (10th March – 1st April)
• Must have a KRA pin and National ID card.
• Must be keen, observant and pay attention to detail especially in recording the responses.
• High integrity and punctuality.
• Teamwork and collaborative skills

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Duties and responsibilities

• The enumerators' main responsibility is to tag trees using tablets. Specific activities will include:
• Attend enumerator training to gain a thorough and clear overview of the context, objectives, relevance, and tools to be used for the tagging exercise.
• Conduct tree tagging pretest and actual tagging on farmers’ fields.
• Participate in team review meetings at the beginning/end of each day’s assignment.
• Ensure the data collected from the farmer's field adheres to and complies with the required instructions to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and quality.
• Ensure that all project farmers within your enumeration area have their trees fully tagged, without leaving any assigned farmer uncovered.
• Understand, take responsibility for your tasks, and remain committed throughout the tagging exercise's period and process.
• Report and relay feedback as instructed and communicate any challenges to your supervisors.

Education, knowledge and experience

• Degree in forestry, natural resource management or related field.
• Knowledge of the names of diverse tree species native in Kitui and Baringo County
• Prior experience in conducting field tagging/surveys using Tablets and taking GPS coordinates/polygons.
• Good understanding of research ethics, confidentiality, and privacy.
• Good understanding of the local language is an added advantage.
• Available for the entire period (10th March – 1st April)
• Must have a KRA pin and National ID card.
• Must be keen, observant and pay attention to detail especially in recording the responses.
• High integrity and punctuality.
• Teamwork and collaborative skills

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The Project Communications Coordinator is responsible for planning and implementing project and or country related communications activities, in alignment with our organizational priorities and values, and working in synergy with the COE department. It plays a crucial role in enhancing the visibility and impact of projects by developing and implementing effective communication strategies. It ensures clear, consistent, and engaging messaging that strengthens stakeholder engagement, builds trust, and supports projects’ implementation. They manage digital and media content, create high-quality material, and facilitate knowledge sharing both internally and externally. By amplifying key messages through various channels, they contribute to advocacy efforts, policy influence, and community engagement. Additionally, they oversee crisis communication and reputation management, ensuring timely and accurate responses to potential risks while maintaining transparency and alignment with the organization's mission.

 Tasks and Deliverables

The following indicative task and associated deliverables are expected at the end of this assignment:

• Develop and implement communication strategies and tactical plans including identifying key messages, target audiences, and suitable communication channels, budgets, action plans and performance metrics.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of communication strategies.
• Align communication efforts with organizational branding and policies.
• Plan and produce multi-media content such as publications, articles, web content, social media content, videos, infographics, media releases, infographics, videos, photography, newsletters, presentations and event related content, ensuring quality control.
• Coordinate the maintenance and updating of project websites/webpages and online platforms.
• Develop communication toolkits for internal and external stakeholders.
• Elicit media relationships to promote project activities under the guidance of the COE media team.
• Ensure high-quality press releases, media briefs, and articles are delivered as needed.
• Coordinate the organization of press conferences, media briefings, and interviews.
• Monitor media coverage and prepare reports on media impact.
• Assist in communication with partners, donors, governments, and beneficiaries.
• Develop materials to engage stakeholders (fact sheets, presentations, brochures).
• Plan and execute project-related events workshops, events and campaigns, as well as participation in conferences, forums, and meetings, including overall planning, logistics, developing promotional material and outreach activities, speaker coordination, implementation, marketing and reporting on results.
• Ensure visibility of the project during international observances (e.g., UN days).
• Produce analytical reports for management and donors on the performance of all communications activities as agreed upon, tracking and analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Ensure compliance with donor visibility requirements and branding guidelines.
• Collect and document success stories and testimonials.
• All production will be undertaken in coordination with and using the resources of the COE communications team and consultants.
• Develop contingency communication plans, statements and responses for crisis situations, manage and mitigate reputational risk related to the project.
• Undertake other communication activities as agreed upon.
• All activities are undertaken in coordination with and using the resources of the COE team and consultants.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in communications, journalism or a related field, or equivalent working experience.
• Excellent English language skills (both verbal and written).
• Proven proficiency in one or more other languages among: Bahasa Indonesian, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in strategic communications planning, messaging and monitoring.
• 3 years of full-time experience writing, editing and interviewing for digital and print      media, video production or broadcasting.
• Proven ability to manage communication activities.
• Must be able to multitask and work well under pressure.
• Excellent understanding of different communication formats and channels and strong knowledge and understanding of current trends in digital media/social media.
• Proven ability to coordinate content contributions within a team and/or across teams; ability to build strong working relations with counterparts worldwide.
• Background and understanding of environment, climate, forestry or related subject areas and science communications