Field Facilitator

Overview

Job : 90404 Job Title: Field Facilitator – Global Evergreen Alliance (GEA)
Organisation: Self Help Africa Contract Type: National Location: Chitipa Reports to: Project Manager

Established in 1984, Self Help Africa is an international development organisation that works through agriculture and agri-enterprise development to address hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impacts of climate change. We believe that equitable economic development is key to lifting communities out of long-term poverty, empowering them to take control of their futures and improving their quality of life.

In early 2023 we launched a new five-year organisation strategy, which defines shared mission as the alleviation of hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impact of climate change through community-led, market-based and enterprise-focused approaches, so that people can have access to nutritious food, clean water, decent employment and incomes, while sustaining natural resources.

Our wider organisation also includes social enterprise subsidiaries Partner Africa, which provides ethical auditing and consultancy services, and CUMO, Malawi’s largest micro-finance provider.

Our three core values are:

• Impact: We are accountable, ambitious and committed to systemic change.
• Innovation: We are agile, creative and enterprising in an ever-changing World.
• Community: We are inclusive, honest and have integrity in our relationships.

The Field Facilitator will play a key role in the implementation of the RESAF project in Chitipa district, supporting the adoption and scaling up of ecosystem-based landscape restoration strategies. The position will focus on strengthening local capacity in land and forest management through ever greening practices, increasing tree biomass and carbon sequestration, and enhancing crop productivity. The Field Facilitator will work closely with communities, local decision-makers, and stakeholders to promote sustainable land restoration, support climate-resilient value chains and market linkages (including carbon markets) and facilitate cross-learning opportunities.

Additionally, the role will involve leading behavior change communication campaigns and implementing monitoring systems to track the success of ecosystem-based activities, tree growth, and biomass accumulation.

• Day to day activity implementation of the GEA Project in target communities.
• Participatory selection of target communities, project participants and stakeholders.
• Participatory selection of volunteer community trainers (lead farmers, community facilitators, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) facilitators, Village Savings and Lending Associations (VSLA) trainers, etc).
• Prepare/adapt training materials for agroforestry, FMNR, landscape restoration, Natural Resources Management (NRM) planning, VSLAs, value chain analysis, business skills development, nutrition.
• Training, mentoring and supervision of volunteer community trainers.
• Training, mentoring of NRM committees, farmers’ groups, micro-enterprises.
• Assist NRM committees to develop and update Natural Resources management plans and maps.
• Undertake regular monitoring of project activities.
• Assist the M&E team to plan and conduct surveys.
• Measure tree growth, tree densities, tree cover, and tree carbon, and conduct remote sensing and field measurement.
• Assist the GEA Malawi Project Manager to prepare narrative reports.
• Liaise with the District Authority and implementing partners and stakeholders.
• Perform other duties and tasks as assigned by the GEA Project Manager.

Internal
:

• SHA Finance, Logistics, HR and Administration Team
• Directors
• HQ Programme Quality Team
• Global Technical Advisory and Research Team

Community Based Trainers.

• EPA staff
• Local NGOs
• CRS
• GEA
• Farmer’s groups

• Diploma or BSc in Forestry, Agroforestry, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension, Agricultural science, Agribusiness, or related discipline.
• Minimum of three years of technical experience in forestry, agroforestry, or natural resource management.
• Experience of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, tree planting and…