Field Officers

Terms of reference for recruiting project staff in the Nyungwe Agroforestry project

Background

Initiative pour la Promotion de la Famille et du Genre (IPFG) is a women led organization established in 2002 and legally registered by the ministerial Order N0 17/11 of 31 January 2006 which was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda O.G N0 10 bis of 15 May 2006. It is based in Gasaka Sector-Nyamagabe District- Southern Province. IPFG has a vision is to aspire a democratic society where both women and men are aware of their problems, complement one another and actively participate in the actions of the entire development. The mission of IPFG is to promote and reinforce complementarity between man and woman as well as their participation in the actions which aim to achieve social and economic development based on fairness. To achieve this mission, IPFG focuses its interventions across 3 main areas: i) agricultural production chains, climate change adaptation and mitigations; ii) youth and women empowerment (economic and leadership); and iii) citizen participation.

Context

From January 2024, IPFGin partnership with Livelihoods funds is implementing “The Nyungwe Agroforestry for communities and Conservation Project-NAP”, a 20 years’ project aiming to make a positive impact on 13,000 hectares of farmland, involving 23,000 smallholder farmers across the eastern border of the Nyungwe National Park in Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru Districts. The Nyungwe Agroforestry Project wants to improve the resilience of the farmers through rehabilitation of ecosystem services and increasing their adaptation capacities to climate change. Specifically, the project will help implementing communities: To grow agroforestry trees for various advantage, promote and improve good agricultural practices (GAP), reduce soil erosion, avail forest products such as timber and fuelwood at farm level, to improve soil fertility; and to increase income opportunities within implementing communities.

In this regard, IPFG is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position.

Field officers (15)

They will field person ready to be based/live in assigned implementing sectors around Nyungwe National Park. They shall be:

• passionate,
• motivated, and driven individuals with an assertive attitude and good command in Kinyarwanda and English Language.
• Familiar with agroforestry
• Field oriented
• Good communicators and familiar with working with farmers

Task and responsibilities

• To train members of the environmental community
• To support in development of community Agroforestry Action Plans with Environmental committee members
• Attend all training sessions as required by the project and IPFG
• To sensitize and register farmers and farmer plots in the Management information system
• To ensure full attendance of trainings with training lists
• Responsible for effective training of farmers and ensure proper implementation of the trainings
• Responsible for tree seedlings distribution to farmers
• Checking and verifying implementation of activities by Lead farmers (Environment Committees-ECs) and farmers
• Data entry and reporting into the MIS
• Ensure that tea farmers are trained in collaboration with tea agronomists
• Monitoring of project activities to verify quality implementation
• Coordinate participatory approach through Environmental committees-ECs
• Adhere to all health and safety precautions as trained by IPFG
• Ensure proper maintenance of project assets

Requirements

• A diploma or a bachelor’s degree in agroforestry, forestry, Agriculture, natural resource management and closely related fields.
• Excellent community mobilization skills
• Ability to communicate effectively, work under pressure and within tight schedules to meet ambitious tree planting targets
• Flexibility and willingness to work and stay for long period within rural areas around Nyungwe National Park (NNP), in Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru districts
• Strong verbal/written communication skills
• Having a driving license, cat A
• At least 1-year hands-on field experience in implementing agroforestry or forestry projects with data gathering requirements will be an added value

 Submission of documents

The interested candidates who fulfill the above requirements should submit/send their application documents which must include the following information:

• Motivation letter addressed to the Chairperson of IPFG expressing your interest in the above posts
• Updated CV/resume
• Copy of ID
• Copy of Driving license
• Certificates or any other documents that proves your experience
• Contact information for at least three professional references
• Copy of academic documents

Successful candidates will be expected to comply with country labor law and various organizational polices. Suitably qualified women and youth candidates are encouraged to apply.

Interested and qualified candidates should submit above mentioned documents in English to the following email: ipfg.recr.proc@ipfg-rwanda.com (the email attachment should have the maximum size of 2 MB and should be a PDF file). Please quote the Job title in the subject. Candidates should submit their documents not later than the 19^th November 2024, at 5.00 pm.

Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for exams

Done at Nyamagabe on 05/11/2024

UWIZEYE Therese

Chairperson and Legal Representative /IPFG