Community Development Facilitator

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

World Vision is seeking to recruit a Community Development Facilitator whose priorities for action will be, under the supervision of the Project Manager, to ensure responsive service delivery empowers rural communities to produce and consume a wide variety of nutritious local food; rural households have more resilient livelihoods through investment in women and youth; and that decision makers and stakeholders are receptive to scalable, evidence-based approaches to sustainable agricultural development. The Community Development Facilitator will also work alongside other WVSI staff to ensure that child wellbeing outcomes are met.

The Community Development Facilitator will be responsible for supporting development, planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting of project activities. S/he will work under the direction of the Project Manager based in Makira Province. S/he will perform the designated tasks in order to achieve programmatic objectives and demonstrate a quality of excellent work standards that is an example to others.

The Community Development Facilitator will communicate World Vision's Core values and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Project Planning and Implementation
• Community Mobilization and Engagement (community participation in project activities)
• Project Monitoring, Learning and Reporting

Knowledge/Qualification

• Three to five years’ experience in Community developmental interventions
• Community Development Certificate/Diploma/Degree or 2 -3 years’ experience as community development facilitator or in related field
• Some background in livelihoods and conservation.
• Computer skills
• Understanding poverty and community empowerment approaches to development
• Good communication (local Knowledge)
• English (Read and Write)
• Problem Solving skills
• Data Collection in community setting
• Convincing and mobilizing skills
• Ability to work in a diverse culture
• Networking skills
• Resource mobilizing skills
• Facilitation Skills (Training Models)

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only