Community Development Facilitator

Positive Action for Development (PAD) is an indigenous, non-governmental, humanitarian, and development organization legally registered at the federal level by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Charities and Societies Agency on June 6, 2011, with a registration number of 2330.

Based on funding from multiple donors, PAD is implementing various projects to support the affected communities and countries through education, CCCCM, shelter and NFI, food security and livelihoods, WASH, health, and nutrition sectors. PAD is currently implementing 12+ projects in various parts of the country.

PAD would like to hire a qualified Community Development Facilitator for an EHF-funded project titled "CBPF-ETH-24-S-NGO-27645 and Multisectoral Response to El Nino-induced Drought-Affected Communities in Siraro Warda of West Arsi, Oromia Region." and an EHF-funded project titled "CBPF-ETH-24-S-NGO-27717 and Integrated Responses to El-Nino-Induced Drought and Crisis-Affected Communities in Lasta Warda of the Amhara Region.”

Specific duties and Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate training and project intervention programmes for communities.
• Facilitate different community level trainings, and experience sharing visits.
• Take part in beneficiary selection processes, including to facilitating and ensuring the inclusion more vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, female headed households and women.
• Facilitate timely distribution of agricultural inputs to the targeted beneficiaries.
• Collect pertinent data from project intervention areas requested by the Project team and country office.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings and networks at district and village levels
• Prepare and submit progress reports properly and timely.
• Assist in timely and accurate documentation, publication and dissemination of the business development activities. This includes success stories, lessons learned, etc.
• Perform other duties as requested by the immediate supervisor

Qualification: BSc/BA degree in Agriculture/Agronomy, Rural Development, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness Management, cooperative development, or other related fields 

Experience: At least three years of relevant working experience in livelihood, food security, resilience building, climate change adaptation, natural resource management, community mobilization, or other relevant fields. in an NGO

Skills Required, Attitudes, and Attributes:

• Plans and prioritizes work activities to meet organizational goals
• Good inter-personal and communication skills
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism
• Creativity and innovation for coordination and management activities
• Capacity and maturity to establish and maintain links with government officials, stakeholders
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks effectively
• Ability to organize and manage events like, trainings, and workshops
• Computer literacy, particularly in MS Word and Excel
• Sense of confidentiality

Desirables:

• Demonstrate capacity to plan, prioritize and deliver tasks on time to meet goals in a high-pressure environment;
• Proven ability to work in multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder working environments;
• Ability to work and act under pressure;

No required: Two (2) one for Lasta Warda of the Amhara Region and one for Siraro Warda of West Arsi, Oromia Region

Duty Station:  Lasta Warda of the Amhara Region and Siraro Warda of West Arsi, Oromia Region

Female applicants are encouraged to apply

How To Apply

Interested and qualified applicants should submit their application letter and required documents to the following address within seven consecutive days from the date of this announcement through organizational email.  Please indicate the position and duty station you applied in the application letter.

E-mail: job@padethiopia.org

Website: www.padethiopia.org

Telephone 0926078123 OR 0936342656 

PAD is an organization committed to upholding a zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of abuse and exploitation, while actively working to protect and defend the rights and wellbeing of individuals.