Community Development Officer
Reporting to the Programme Manager, the post-holder will be based in Nairobi, Kenya with field work across East Africa, focused on direct engagement with communities and implementing partners.
Roles and Responsibilities
Assess and identify community capacity gaps, needs and root causes on equine husbandry and management practices and related social-economic needs
Develop and implement interventions to address the gaps, needs and root causes identified above in a sustainable manner, and using Brooke’s Communities For Animals (C4A) and behaviour change (HBC) tools
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions, and follow up with relevant adjustments
Continuously implement follow up actions or adjustments on the basis of information gathered from the evaluation above
Explore and try innovative capacity building methods, tools and techniques that are suitable and sensitive to distinct community groupings, demographics and contexts for sustainable behaviour change
Strengthen community-based structures among target equine owning communities that assure sustainable project interventions
Participate in identification of gaps in and value addition to resource and material requirements related to community engagement
Participate in all community engagement resource and material development initiatives in order to ensure that there is optimal standardization of learning resources for Brooke East Africa and partners utilization in the community
Prepare for and deliver content during planned trainings, ensure learningcapacity building road map; matching session plans for each training session; and conduct monitoring visits to follow up on the use of C4A tools
Actively participate and support planning of Community Engagement meetings and workshops for Brooke East Africa Partners or organized by Brooke UK
Participate from time to time in value adding meetings or initiatives with Brooke East Africa’s Partners and other like-minded stakeholders in animal welfare and livelihoods sectors
Receive and provide input to other officers whose jobs are interdependent with this role
Receive and provide support to other officers whose jobs are interdependent with this role
Supply reports and other required information and data to other parts of the organization as required
Actively participate in team and or staff meeting; adding value to the meeting agenda and discussions for the purpose of enhancing organizational goals in community engagement
Knowledge and Skills Required
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in community development, social studies or related area of study
Over 5 years’ field-based experience in community development, using sustainable and transformative approaches and tools
Innovative and pro-active approach to resolving complex community needs
Competencies in the application of participatory community approaches
Excellent planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting skills
Competencies in adult learning facilitation, planning and execution of workshop and training events
Partnership-building, networking, collaboration and representation skills
For consideration, please send your application to:Recruiting officerBrooke East AfricaP.O. Box 43220 – 00100Nairobi, KenyaOr email: brookeea@thebrookeeastafrica.org
Apply via :
brookeea@thebrookeeastafrica.org
