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Purpose of the Position:
CARE is an international development
and humanitarian aid organisation fighting global poverty, with a special focus
on working with women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities.
As a non-religious and non-political organisation, CARE works with communities
to help overcome poverty by supporting development efforts and providing
emergency assistance. We believe supporting women and girls is one of the most
effective ways to create sustainable outcomes in poor communities.
Building on CARE’s existing programs in these Islands
over the last 6 years, CARE will continue to partner with the Tafea Province,
DARD, VARTC, local and international NGO’s and RTCs to re-establish household
food production and agriculture based livelihoods for women and men.
Reporting Relationship:
This position directly reports to the Livelihoods
Team Leader.
Responsibilities:
Program Delivery
- Liaise
with the Rural Training Centres, with support of Tafea MALFFB, to monitor
ongoing livelihood trials;
- Co-ordinating
distributions of seeds and tools within Whitesands, and the accompanying small
community awareness talk;
- Assist
with managing the partnership with MALFFB with support from Technical Advisor
for Food Security and Livelihoods, and with the co-ordination of MALFFB
Interns;
- Conduct
and assist community trainings across Tafea, with knowledge input into modules
including; food security, advanced farming systems, seed saving techniques,
nutrition, budgeting, poultry farming, water management and more;
- Assist
with the setup and monitoring of the Women’s Seed and Tool banks in Whitesands;
- Travel
to remote locations and project sites as needed.
Partner Capacity Building
- Work with MALFFB to network with new
and current partners, and foster relationships with local development and civil
society organizations;
- Coordinate and support the development and delivery of training programs
and ongoing mentoring of local development partners.
Monitoring & Evaluation
- Participate actively and take a lead
role in Monitoring and Evaluation of field activities and partner capacity
building interventions;
- Oversee regular field monitoring and
reporting of the Livelihoods Components;
- Ensure the submission of regular and
timely field activity reports to the ICDP Manager;
- Provide feedback on program activities
to CARE, communities, and other stakeholders;
- Assist in documenting project
activities, processes and lessons learned.
Cross-cutting Issues and Policies
- Promote, demonstrate sensitivity to,
and integrate cross-cutting issues including gender into plans, programs, and
actions;
- Promote a safe and secure work
environment;
- Foster a culture of safety and
security awareness;
- Ensure consistent application of, and
compliance with, CARE International in Safety and Security policies and
procedures;
- Promote and foster a culture of
respect and dignity as per the CARE values/codes of conduct;
- Be a good CARE ambassador at all times
when representing the organization in the field, at workshops, in the office,
and any other environments.
GENERAL
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To
proactively manage the APPA process for all direct reports (annual appraisal, midyear
review and regular 1:1 meetings) creating an environment where feedback is
valued, acted upon and monitored, and where the APPA process (including the
paperwork) is an integral component of Annual Work Plans and activities;
- Promote a
safe and secure work environment; foster a culture of safety and security
awareness and ensure a consistent application of, and compliance with, CARE
safety and security policies and procedures;
- Demonstrate
understanding of gender equality and women’s empowerment and a commitment to
CARE’s approach and values including ethnic diversity and cultural sensitivity;
- Uphold and promote
CARE’s commitment to Child Protection;
- Represent
CARE at any stakeholder meetings in Tanna.
Criteria:
- A relevant tertiary qualification or
equivalent level of experience
- Experience
coordinating and supervising a small field team
- Proven experience or study in the
area of agriculture or related field
- Ability to document and give feed
back and follow a work plan
- Demonstrated understanding of
gender equality and women’s empowerment and a commitment to CARE’s approach and
values including ethnic diversity and cultural sensitivity
- Well-developed oral
and written communication skills, with the ability to speak English and
possibly French
- Basic IT skills in Word, excel,
PowerPoint, outlook
- Must be willing and able to
conduct field work and travel to outer Islands as required
- A Vanuatu National.
Desired
- A well-developed understanding of
disaster risk reduction in the Vanuatu context
- Representational
skills including experience developing networks and relationships with
government, civil society and other stakeholders.
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