Field Officer
About the role
About the Role Facilitates community-level implementation of Project #3318 by supporting households, farmer groups, VSLAs and local stakeholders to adopt improved agricultural, nutrition, livelihood and resilience practices. Responsibilities Mobilize and engage participating households, farmer groups, VSLAs, community leaders and local government extension staff. Facilitate training, demonstrations and follow-up on conservation and climate-smart agriculture, soil fertility, pest and disease management, agroforestry and soil and water conservation. Support Mother-Baby Demonstration Plots, farmer field learning and farmer-to-farmer exchanges. Facilitate kitchen gardening, nutrition education, cooking demonstrations and improved small-livestock husbandry activities. Support VSLAs and clusters, financial literacy, household planning, agribusiness, collective marketing and produce aggregation. Promote women’s leadership, youth participation, gender-transformative dialogue and equitable household decision-making. Link farmers with extension officers, input suppliers, mechanization providers, financial service providers, traders and other partners. Collect and submit activity data, attendance records, participant feedback, field reports, consent-based photographs and success stories. Identify implementation challenges, safeguarding concerns, environmental risks and community feedback and report them appropriately. Monitor adoption of promoted practices, maintain community records and support project sustainability and exit planning. Requirements Community mobilization and facilitation skills. Knowledge of smallholder farming systems and agricultural extension. Knowledge of conservation agriculture, climate-smart agriculture, nutrition and livelihoods programming. Participatory training and farmer engagement skills. Record keeping, activity reporting and basic computer or mobile data-collection skills. Fluent Kiswahili and working knowledge of English. Teamwork, initiative, reliability and practical problem-solving. Gender sensitivity and respect for community members. Ability to travel frequently and ride a motorcycle. How to apply Submit an application letter, updated CV, copies of academic and professional certificates, NIDA and birth certificate copies, contact details of three professional referees, a recent passport-size photograph and, where applicable, a recommendation letter from your church pastor. Address applications to: The Diocesan Secretary, Africa Inland Church Tanzania (AICT), Geita Diocese, P.O. Box 523, Geita, Tanzania. Write the position applied for in the email subject and email your application to: info@aictgeita.net