Field Officer

CESVI ZIMBABWE BACKGROUND

CESVI have been operating in Zimbabwe since 1998 in the following key areas: environment, agriculture, livelihood, social protection and the health sector.

Cesvi activities in the agricultural sector mainly revolve around supporting rural communities to transform traditional practices from subsistence farming to commercial farming and building resilience.

CESVI got an award for a 3-months project in Chiredzi District, have a vacancy for Field officer in the district.  The activities are aiming at protecting, developing, rehabilitating, and strengthening livelihood assets in 6 wards, supporting climate smart agriculture, entrepreneur skills building training, income generating

projects, infrastructural rehabilitation and capacity building of community and district stakeholders.

Job Title:            Field officers X 1

Workstation:     Chiredzi District (Wards 2,6,7,9,10,13)

Reports to:        District Coordinator

Start date:          Sept 2024

Duration:          2.5 Months

JOB SUMMARY

Key Responsibilities

The Field Officer will be responsible for liaising with the District Coordinator in implementing the programme in the district and ensuring compliance to Donor and Cesvi guidelines. S/He will be ensuring that work schedule is conducted timely and efficiently whilst assisting the District Coordinator in monitoring of the delivery, distribution, and field reporting. The incumbent is expected to lead the specific borehole and garden sites to ensure an efficient implementation within the respective wards. Cesvi and donor’s commodity management standards must always be observed in addition to COVID-19 requirements and Cesvi PSEA and Safeguarding policy.

Main tasks and responsibilities The Field Officer shall.

• Devise NFIs distribution plans as per approved distribution plan by the District Coordinator on the quantities of commodity expected and the expected date of arrival of commodity and planned distribution dates.
• Leading the monitoring of commodity movements, including delivery of commodities at the garden sites, supervising receipt, and offloading of NFIs in compliance with the FFA commodity management standards including handling and documentation.
• Manage the entire distribution processes at the garden sites in collaboration with the Committees.  Coordinate and lead in all areas of garden commodity management including periodical review of commodity security situation, best practices to ensure that no damaged NFIs are distributed, their availability and supervise the implementation of rehabilitation projects.
• Ensure that all goods are properly handled, properly distributed, accounted for and reported as per Cesvi and the donor’s guidelines.
• Responsible for ensuring community mobilization and beneficiaries registrations.

• Introduce Resilience concept to the community and ensure a clear understanding and adoption of the process.
• Enable a community process of electing Asset management (AMC) committees, ensuring gender balance and conducting training for the committees based on the program principles.
• Provide guidance and facilitate beneficiary selection and validation process.
• Support the community to solve ward level problems including goods distributions and ensure that a complaint/response feedback mechanism is in place at all Distribution Points.
• Timely prepare and submit weekly/monthly reports to the District Coordinator timeously.
• Follow up all relevant paperwork for goods movements and distributions are properly filed.  Prepare and submit reports such as Site/ Centre Visit Reports (SCVR), and Truck Inspection Reports (TIR) are submitted on regular basis.
• Check waybills, to ensure that the correct quantities have been indicated on the waybills and record any discrepancies (if any).
• Report on any incidents on security issues at the sites.
• Facilitate information sharing with communities and stakeholders about Cesvi and its programs.
• Identify training needs and facilitate training for the community.
• Coordinate and liaise at operational level with local authorities, NGOs, and counterparts, provide information regarding beneficiary registration, commodity distribution, distribution plans, and project progress.
• Identify and recommend other needs such as health care, additional NFIs needs, development activities, or any other rehabilitation and/or development activity.
• Ensure beneficiaries are treated with respect and dignity.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• A Degree in Agriculture, Gender, Nutrition, Development studies or any related field  At least 2 years’ experience in food aid programming, preferably in an NGO environment                In depth knowledge of all programme requirements, standards, and guidelines.
• Have proven organizational planning and leadership, ability to follow procedures and meet deadlines without much supervision.
• Demonstrate ability in the designing and effective use of training materials.
• Ability to identify gaps, trends, priorities, and key issues.
• Ability to prioritize many demands

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES.

• Transparency: able to build trust and contribute to informed and responsible decision making by carrying out the work in a transparent manner; provides clear guidance to ensure that objectives and desired measurable results are understood by members of the team,
• Inclusiveness: understands and accepts cultural diversity and provide a tolerant, positive, and supportive working environment that fosters respect for diversity, demonstrates ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds,
• Professionalism: promote the organization’s interests, objectives, and values in a diligent and professional manner
• Accountability: takes responsibility for individual and collective actions, promotes the vision and mission of Cesvi.

Functional competencies

• Ability to work under pressure, as part of a team or independently, and meet deadlines consistently,  Ability to respond to requests on short notice and simultaneously plan and execute several activities,  Proven leadership, interpersonal, and cross-cultural skills, gender sensitivity, with the ability to build and motivate diverse teams,
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, and Outlook

• Committed to continuous learning and proactive and mature attitude towards self-development; and
• Ability to ride a motorbike with a valid class 3 drivers’ licence.

THE POSITION IS OPEN TO ZIMBABWEAN NATIONALS ONLY.

NB: The recruitment is being done on a rolling basis, once we found the right person we will close before the deadline.

Interested suitably qualified and experienced persons should submit a CV (maximum 3 pages), inclusive of at least 3 references, by the 24th September 2024.

• KINDLY INCLUDE A COVER LETTER IN THE SAME FILE OF THE CV.
• DO NOT SEND ANY CERTIFICATE OR IDS AS ANNEXES, AS THIS WILL BE ASKED AT A LATER STAGE
• APPLICATIONS WRITTEN FIELD OFFICER ON THE SUBJECT LINE MUST BE SENT TO THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL ADDRESS: recruiting@cesvizimbabwe.org or hand deliver at 3951 Westwood Suburb, Chiredzi.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted on the status of their application.

SAFEGUARDING

Cesvi has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a child or a vulnerable adult by any of our staff, related persons, or partners. Cesvi commitment to being a safe organization begins with the staff recruitment process which includes meticulous checks, such as criminal records checks or check disclosure of previous convictions, to ensure children and vulnerable people are safeguarded and abuse is prevented. Safeguarding checks are part of the selection process performance.

Please note: Due to the high number of applications we receive we are unable to provide feedback to everyone if unsuccessful at this stage.