Forward in Action for Education, Poverty and Malnutrition (FAcE-PaM) is a not-for profit Non-Governmental organization duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 1998 with registration number 11444. Our conception priority focus areas at inception were Education, Poverty and Malnutrition.
Experience
Location Jigawa , Kebbi
Job Description
- The Community-Based Facilitators/Advisors will provide advisory services to project participants and will be saddled with other responsibilities that are related to the following project objectives:
- Increase access to and consumption of healthy diets among household members, particularly women of reproductive age and children under 15.
- Increase the resilience of households to price shocks and economic stresses that impact nutritional outcomes
- Increase the resilience of households to climate change-related shocks that impact their nutritional status outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Support Agricultural Livelihood Officers to identify and train Producer Groups, Processing
- Enterprises / Cooperatives on Improved cottage agro-processing technologies in CASCADE implementing States.
- Support Agricultural Livelihood Officers to organise practical demonstrations and simulations on agro– processing best practices in the targeted communities.
- Support Agricultural Livelihood Officers in the acquisition to provide the Women/Youths, Cooperatives,
- VSLA with the appropriate training Kits.
- Lead on Community and stakeholders’ mobilisations.
- Support nutrition-sensitive, agribusiness capacity and need assessments for cooperatives.
- Facilitate technology transfer on improved production of selected value chains.
- Support participants in training in basic small business management skills.
- Document activity report of the training proceedings, lessons learnt and recommendations for scaling up of the activity.
- Support mobilisation/demand generations.
- Participate in demand stimulation activities by marketing various agribusiness products.
- Provide Business-to-Business (B2B) linkages for input traders, Agri-Processors.
- Provide some basic agri-business, veterinary advisory, and service for smallholder farmers.
- Support in linking smallholder farmers to financial service providers.
- Provide advisory services to smallholder farmers on business skills development, homestead gardens, demo/model farms, etc.
- Monitor cooperative and enterprise activities and report to Field Officers.
- Conduct case management and follow up on Small Holder Farmers (SHFs), farms, processors, business sites and activities.
- Keep business records and transactions of various enterprises/cooperatives.
- Reports on all activities conducted by the CASCADE Agricultural Livelihood Officers.
- Actively involved in generating demand for products.
Requirements
- Candidates must possess a minimum qualification of NCE/ND Certificate. A degree will be an added advantage.
- Must have worked with them previously for the Nutrition, Livelihood, and Agribusiness project participants as
- Community Facilitators/Village Agents, Community-Based Facilities for more than 6 months with a good record of group/cooperative management.
- Must be living within the project implementation areas.
- Must have undergone Farmer Field and Business School, on Good Agronomic Practices (GAP), Farmer
- Business School (FBS), Climate Smart Agriculture, Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA),
- Cooperative Business School methodology and Protection mainstreaming training.
- Must possess strong facilitation/presentation skills.
- Must be able to communicate in the local languages, Hausa, English, etc.
- Must be knowledgeable in small business initiatives.
- Must have a valid account number and National means of identification, Tax identification Number, etc, the subject of the email.
Method of Application
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