Minimum Requirements
At least a master’s degree in Natural Resource Management, Forestry, Agroecology, Environment or related disciplines from a recognized university.
A highly competent Field School Master Trainer.
Highly competent in managing complex and multi country projects
Technical/Functional Skills
Cross-cutting knowledge, skills and experience related to biodiversity and natural resources management at landscape and community levels in diverse contexts.
At least 10 years’ direct experience of Field Schools programming and technical backstopping.
Proven experience in curriculum development for Master Trainers and Facilitators of Field Schools (FS)
Proven experience in developing training materials for FS, Facilitators and Master Trainers
At least 5 years proven experience in conducting Facilitators and/or Master Trainers Courses on FS.
Excellent Project management and budget monitoring skills.
Excellent writing and documentation skills.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills,and demonstrated ability to effectively interact and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders and sectors.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Oversee the collaborative strategic design of FS approaches for delivering landscape interventions towards sustainable land and forest management (SLM/SFM) in diverse contexts of Africa.
Engage with counterpart technical agencies to identify areas of linkages and synergy
Provide substantive input in the development of the integrated regional technical support and oversight plan to include enhancement of FFS/APFS methodology at country level.
Provide technical leadership in capacity assessment of identified stakeholders to apply and implement catchment/micro catchment based SLM/SFM technologies, approaches towards Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)
Lead the project team in development of a comprehensive FFS/APFS capacity building plan
Lead a team of experts and stakeholders in developing an integrated FS curriculum for implementation of both landscape and household level interventions towards improved dryland health and community livelihoods
Provide leadership in generation of training materials for FS, Facilitators and Master Trainers based on the curriculum developed.
Lead other experts attached to the programme in preparing and facilitating training courses for Master Trainers on FFS/APFS.
Lead the project team in providing technical backstopping and mentorship to trained FS Master Trainers during ToTs and refresher courses.
Lead the project team to support the design of and facilitate regional thematic learning events on transformative landscape models for promotion and adoption of SLM/SFM through FFS/APFS
Work closely with the project team including M&E and Communication experts to document innovation case studies
Please send your CV with names of three referees and a covering letter, which outlines how you meet the person specification to recruitment@iirr.org. Application deadline is Friday 23rd December 2022.
Apply via :
recruitment@iirr.org
