Community Based Facilitator / Advisor at Development Exchange Centre (DEC) - 2 Openings

Development Exchange Centre (DEC) is a Non-Governmental Organisation that is non-partisan, non-profit, and established in 1987. It is Incorporated by Trust with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)- (IT/Cert: 10826). The organization has an overarching mandate of providing socio-economic development services to women, groups, communities, and NGOs[1]. DEC’s Head Office is in Bauchi State, and it is currently operational in all Northern States of Nigeria including FCT, Enugu, and Cross Rivers States, with a staff strength of 868 permanent employees. DEC’s socio-economic enhancement programs cut across several sectors that touch the basic fabric of its target beneficiaries and include education, health, economic/livelihoods, water/environment, good governance & peacebuilding, and microfinance.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Community Based Facilitator / Advisor

Locations: Bauchi and Nasarawa
Employment Type: Full Time

Purpose of the Role
The Community Based Facilitators / Advisors will provide advisory services to project participants and will be saddled with other responsibilities that are related to the following project objectives:

• Increase access to and consumption of healthy diets among household members, particularly women of reproductive age and children under 15.
•  Increase resilience of households to price shocks and economic stresses that impact nutritional outcomes
•  Increase resilience of households to climate change-related shocks that impact their nutritional outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Agricultural Livelihood Officers to identify and train Producer Groups, Processing Enterprises/Cooperatives on Improved cottage agro-processing technologies in CASCADE implementing States. 
• Support Agricultural Livelihood Officers to organize practical demonstrations and simulations on agro-processing best practices in the targeted communities. 
• Support Agricultural Livelihood Officers in acquisition to provide the Women/Youths, Cooperatives, VSLA with the appropriate training Kits. 
• Lead on Community and stakeholders’ mobilizations.
• Support Nutrition sensitive, agribusiness capacity and need assessments for cooperatives.
• Facilitate technology transfer on improved production of selected value chains.
•  Support participants training in basic small business management skills. 
• Document activity report of the training proceedings, lessons learnt and recommendations for scaling up of the activity. 
• Support mobilization/demand generations.
• Participate in demand stimulation activities by marketing various agribusiness products.
• Provide Business to Business (B2B) linkages for input traders, Agri-Processors.
• Provide some basic agri-business, veterinary advisory, and service for small holder farmers.
• Support in linking smallholder farmers to financial service providers.
• Provide advisory services to smallholder farmers on business skills development, homestead gardens, demo/model farms etc.
• Monitor cooperative and enterprise activities and report to Field Officers.
• Conduct case management and follow up on Small Holder Farmers (SHF’s), farm, processors, business sites and activities.
• Keep business records and transactions of various enterprises/cooperatives.
• Reports on all activities conducted to the CASCADE Agricultural Livelihood Officers.
• Actively involved in generating demand for products.

Qualifications and Experience for the Position

• Candidates must possess a minimum qualification of NCE / ND / NG Certificate. A degree will be an added advantage.
• Must have worked with previously for a Nutrition, Livelihood, Agribusiness projects participants as Community Facilitators/Village Agents, Community Based Facilities for more than 6 months with good record of group/cooperative management.
• Must be living within project implementation areas.
• Must have undergone Farmer Field and Business School, on Good Agronomic Practices (GAP), Farmer Business School (FBS), Climate Smart Agriculture, Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA), Cooperative Business School methodology and Protection mainstreaming training.
• Must possess strong facilitation/presentation skills.
• Must be able to communicate in the local languages, Hausa, English etc.
• Must be knowledgeable in small business initiative.
• Must have a valid account number and National means of identification, Tax identification Number etc.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume / CV and cover letter in a single file (Word document or PDF format, as any other format would not be considered) to: hr_recruitment@dexcentre.org using the job title as the subject of the mail.