Water Cluster Facilitator
Job Description
Title: Water Cluster Facilitator
Company Name: Uttaran
Vacancy: 3
Job Location: Bagerhat, Khulna, Satkhira
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma/ graduate in Agriculture/Bachelor degree in relevant field.
Job Context:
∎ Uttaran (SAFAL for Integrated Water Resource Management Project)
∎ Uttaran is an NGO working in Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged community people. Uttaran is a people-centered organization using a rights-based approach to alleviate poverty, diversify livelihood opportunities and empower poor communities of Bangladesh.
∎ Supported by the Dutch Government, Solidaridad, in partnership with Uttaran, is planning to implement the project `SAFAL for Integrated Water Resources Management (SAFAL for IWRM)` put forward a community-based water management model for enhancing sustainable use, protection and restoration of Watersheds for resilient agriculture through operationalization of IWRM in Southwest Bangladesh. It will improve and diversify coastal agriculture of Bangladesh through innovative ecosystem-based water and land use planning that would provide greater climate resiliency and economic return for the coastal communities. The project outlined following three pathways to achieve the overall goal-
∎ Pathway 1: Climate Smart and Regenerative Agriculture Production System to improve water use efficiency and soil fertility
∎ Pathway 2: Watershed Protection to ensure sustainable harness of ground and surface water for irrigation
∎ Pathway 3: Watershed management and governance to ensure equitable access to water use for irrigation.
∎ Uttaran invites applications for the vacant position titled- Water Cluster Facilitator, responsible for implementing project interventions at the community level of SAFAL for Integrated Water Resource Management (SAFAL for IWRM) project.
∎ Reports to: Water cluster officer.
∎ Job Location: Anywhere of Khulna/Satkhira/Bagerhat district.
∎ Employment Status: Contractual- Fixed Term project period.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Overall Job responsibility:
∎ The Water Cluster Facilitator is the frontline staff of the project with main responsibility for delivering project interventions at the community level. He/she will be responsible for mobilizing the farmers and other stakeholders for ensuring participation in the project activities and achieving set targets of the project in the target farming communities. Under the overall supervision of Project Officer and backstopping support from technical team will plan, implement and monitor the project activities at community level. The position will be based at community (Union level) with regular visit to farm households and the watersheds.
∎ Duties and Accountabilities:
∎ Conduct assessment of micro watersheds and select suitable micro watersheds for rejuvenation according to Micro watershed assessment and selection guideline.
∎ Appropriately facilitate the entire process of micro watershed assessment, selection and documentation ensuring participation of all relevant stakeholders (Farmers, officials of DAE, DOF, DLS, BWDB, LEGE, Union Parishad etc)
∎ Appropriately demark the catchment areas of selected micro watersheds, collect all required information of the catchment areas and collectivize farmers of catchment areas into Local Water User Groups (LWUG) according to LWUG formation and facilitation guideline.
∎ Facilitate formation of Watershed Committee for each of the selected micro watershed ensuring women and youth representation as stated in the guideline.
∎ Support the Watershed committee to remain effectively functional with proper governance.
∎ Provide organization and facilitation support to watershed committee and LWUG for developing design for micro watershed rejuvenation and water reservoir, improvement of the design in consultation with relevant government departments and implementation of the rejuvenation/excavation works.
∎ Ensure participation and contributions of farmers of the catchment areas, relevant government departments, Union Parishad and other stakeholders in micro watershed rejuvenation and development of water reservoirs.
∎ Organize and facilitate capacity building training for the farmers for adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) and Regenerative Agricultural technologies with focus on efficient use of water in agriculture.
∎ Select suitable farmers and provide support to establish demonstration and pilot plot on CSA/Regenerative agriculture, water use efficiency and soil health improvement technologies.
∎ Provide technical and backstopping support to farmers of watershed catchment areas for adopting most suitable cropping pattern, CSA/Regenerative Agricultural technologies and water use efficient technologies considering local ecosystem and market demands
∎ Facilitate development of 'catchment area cropping plan' and provide follow up support to LWUG and Watershed Committee for implementation of the plan
∎ Provide necessary support to develop Digital Advisory Services and promote use of digital advisory services by the farmers.
∎ Provide planning and technical support to the farmers of LWUG for improvement of farm structure that support efficient use of water.
∎ Collect M&E data, compile the data and prepare report according to SAFAL-IWRM M&E Framework.
∎ Support to organize training, meeting, workshop and other project events with guidance from the supervisors.
∎ Maintain effective liaison with the local representatives of private sectors, local extension officials, Union Parishad and community leaders to ensure their supports in project implementation.
∎ Engage and participate in other activities as will be deemed necessary for project implementation and will be assigned by your supervisors.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Experienced in community mobilization and facilitation of Climate Smart/Regenerative agriculture technologies
∎ Experienced in facilitating Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) intervention will get preference
∎ Experienced in working with SaFaL project will get added value.
∎ Experienced in M&E data collection, compilation and progress report preparation.
∎ Person Specifications & Attributes:
∎ Excellent motivational and community mobilization skill
∎ Good training facilitation skill with ability to provide technical support to farmers
∎ Skill in developing and maintaining effective liaison with the local level stakeholders including government officials and private sectors
∎ Good negotiation and conflict resolution skill
∎ Proactive and able to take challenges
∎ A good team player and contribute to enhance team spirit
∎ Able to collect project relevant information and report preparation
Salary:
∎ Tk. 25000 (Monthly)
∎ BDT 25,000 including everything.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 7 Jan 2024
Company Information:
∎ 26 Dec 2023
∎ Uttaran
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 7th Jan 2024
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