18 Positions For Ward Facilitators in Zambia at Self Help Africa


The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is one of the global climate funds established under the multi-donor Climate Investment Fund (CIF) which aims to support and assist countries transform into a climate resilient development path, consistent with poverty reduction and sustainable development goals. Zambia is one of the three first countries in Africa selected to implement the PPCR (the others are Mozambique and Niger). The PPCR seeks to complement available adaptation financing by providing funds for programmatic approaches to integrating climate resilience into core development policies, plans and projects, thus catalyzing a transformational shift from “business as usual” (sector-by-sector and project-by-project) towards a more programmatic way of building the country’s climate resilience.

Due to particularly high vulnerability, the Kafue Sub-basin has been selected as one of the target areas for the PPCR, under a sub-project known as Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue Sub-basin (SCRiKA) Project. SCRiKA aims to strengthen the adaptive capacity of the most vulnerable of the Sub-basin’s rural communities to better respond to existing climate variability and the longer-term impacts of climate change. As such there are 11 target districts, being Mazabuka, Monze, Choma, Kalomo, Pemba and Namwala (part of Southern Province); Kafue and Shibuyunji (part of Lusaka Province); and Chibombo, Mumbwa and Itezhi-Tezhi (part of Central Province). While the project focuses on these pilot districts, about 800,000 of the sub-Basin’s most vulnerable people are expected to benefit directly from SCRiKA’s interventions.

SCRiKA’s ultimate objective is to strengthen food security and reduce poverty, through approaches that integrate climate risks into local development planning processes and ensuring that climate risks are integrated into pathways for attaining development objectives. Rural infrastructure and natural resource systems, which support the area’s predominantly rain-fed agriculture, are understood to be of the most highly vulnerable to climate change.

About Self Help Africa

Self Help Africa (SHA) is an international development headquartered in Ireland and the United Kingdom (UK), with operations in nine countries (including Zambia) across East, Southern and West Africa. SHA work with smallholder farmers, farmer associations, cooperatives and agribusinesses to help rural poor households to grow and sell more food, improve diets, diversify and grow incomes and make their livelihoods more sustainable and resilient to external shocks. We also work to raise awareness of the issues affecting these communities and represent their interests at policy and institutional level.

Self Help Africa and its partner(s) are implementing the SCRiKA project as Climate Risk and Adaptation Facilitators (CRAFs) on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Zambia (Ministry of National Development Planning) and administered by the African Development Bank (AfDB). Self Help Africa is working in six districts of Southern Province namely Mazabuka, Pemba, Monze, Namwala, Choma and Kalomo targeting 18 wards (three wards per district). The intended beneficiaries of the project include the poor rural farmers who often suffer climate-related losses, and other vulnerable people, such as, female-headed households, the elderly, incapacitated, households taking care of AIDS-orphans and single or divorced male-headed households.

SHA now requires suitable qualified and experienced persons to fill the positions of District Facilitators and Ward Facilitators

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Ward Facilitators (18)

Organization: SHA – SCRiKA Project

Department: ProgrammesLocation: Wards Located in the following Districts – Mazabuka, Monze, Pemba, Choma, Kalomo and NamwalaContract

Type:1 year renewable

Reports to: SensitiseDistrict Facilitator

Job Purpose:

The selected candidates will be expected to facilitate participatory adaptation activities in response to the social and biological impacts of climate change at the Ward and community levels. The facilitator will help mobilize project beneficiaries, provide technical support on participatory planning processes to build resilience to climate change through community training facilitations and engagement with community leaders on issues of climate change. The Ward Facilitator will report to the District Facilitator.

Key ResponsibSensitize

  • and mobilize targeted communities in climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Disseminate and monitor relevant climate change information at ward level
  • Conduct training modules in climate change
  • Support and assist communities identify climate risks, hazards, identify sub-projects and develop community adaptation plans
  • Assist communities to prepare and submit sub-projects for possible funding
  • Support develop of climate change integrated ward development plans
  • Work with Ward Development Committees and where they are non-existent with the interim
  • Conduct training in participatory methods and tools
  • Documentation and reporting of best practices
  • Monitor project activities

Key Relationships:

Internal

  • Team Leader
  • Environmental and social inclusion officer
  • District Facilitator

External

  • Ward Development Committee
  • District Planning Sub- Committee (DPSC)
  • SCRiKA Project Manager

Qualifications/Knowledge and Experience:

Essential

  • Ward facilitators should have a minimum qualification of a Certificate in agriculture, water engineering, community development
  • Knowledgeable in climate change adaptation and climate risk assessment is a must.

Desirable

  • At least three years’ experience in community development, NGO and/or Climate Change related work

All Applications to [email protected]               

Closing Date: 31 May 2017 

Self Help Africa is committed to equal employment opportunities

To apply for this job email your details to [email protected]