Job Description

Location: Bulilima and Mangwe districts.

Summary
Help - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe, is seeking Field Officers for an anticipated USAID-BHA funded Food Assistance and Agricultural Support (FAAS) Project in Zimbabwe. The FAAS will seek to sustainably improve the humanitarian food insecurity situation in Bulilima and Mangwe rural districts. The estimated implementation timeframe for the intervention is 2024-2025.
Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the project and USAID approval of the candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties):
With guidance from the Project Manager, the Field Officer will implement project activities as per set work plans. The Field Officer will be primarily responsible for initiating and implementing comprehensive sustainable agriculture (including poultry production) extension and climate change mitigation plans within the project framework. The Field Officer will seek to plan, execute and coordinate all project actions that enhance community short to medium term food security status through crop/livestock improvement and capacity building of the resource constrained farmers on soil and water conservation. The field officer will also be responsible for implementing appropriate (sustainable agriculture) technology development, testing, adoption, dissemination and scaling up.

Duties and Responsibilities

Other key responsibilities include the following:
• Implementation of key project models and approaches including farmer field schools, demonstration sites, and gender and protection strategies.
• Facilitate capacity building of agricultural public extension staff, improving agricultural extension services for small holder farmers.
• Supporting Lead farmers and their groups to enhance crops and livestock productivity using good agricultural practices.
• Provide regular support and monitoring of demonstration sites at ward level.
• Implement and document seed and livestock fairs.
• Produce regular and timely consolidated progress reports to the Project Manager.
• Registration of project participants and training of these on relevant project aspects with the assistance of public and private extension staff.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications:

Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area (e.g., Agriculture, Development Studies related social sciences) at least 3 years working experience in the NGO, Private Sector or GVT. The ideal candidate has experience working in and supporting rural communities and has a clean record in terms of the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.

· Strong written and oral communication skills and fluency in English. Knowledge of Ndebele (Both spoken and written is a requirement)

Abilities:

• Sharp time management skills.
• Very strong work ethics, with a willingness to work outside normal working hours where deadlines have to be met.
• The ability to use Microsoft Office programs including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint in a professional way.
• Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Good organizational, multitasking, and time-management skills.
• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
Submission of applications: