Job Opportunities at Tree Aid

Job Description

Guide and Support partner for the project implementation

• Lead in the delivering of field activities that TREE AID will implement and support co-applicants in the delivery of their mandate involving all stakeholders at all stages.
• Ensure identification, community entry and sensitization of communities on the project objective
• Facilitate mobilization of community people into formidable working groups with business approach.
• Ensure that community producer groups are approproiate for delivering project activities, increased production and productivity.
• Facilitate increase adoption of sustainable agroforestry practices with increase involvement of women, youth and disable people in an informed decent work approach.
• Support strengthen agriculture and NTFPs value chains with quality produce aggregation, value addition, sustainable market linkages and supply.
• Mainsttream social inclusion decent work into climate smart agriculture production and marketing approaches with emphasis on agroforestry.
• Facilitate setting up of community tree nurseries, raising of tree seedlings and growing of trees using appropriate community approach for higher survival rates.
• Provide step down training to producer groups especially on research recommendations
• Be abreast with tree nutritional gardens, processing and packaging practices
• Ensure that due processes are followed in financial transactions with value for money.
• Monitoring and evaluation and reporting
  • Facilitate review and planning meetings of producer groups and update your line manager.
  • Support the design and utilisation of Monitoring and Evaluation tools to help follow project progress.
  • Prepare and provide monthly, quarterly and annual reports timely to your line manager.
  • Where appropriate, prepare specific Terms of Reference tailored to carrying out field visits to partners, and support partners to improve their project implementation.
  • Provide support to develop and maintain Geographical Information System (GIS) supported platform for keeping a database of key project outcomes and producing suitable products for outreach.
  • Provide insightful feedback from communities, identify successes, challenges and the wayforward

Support the development of TREE AID Ghana’s wider programme

• Support the identification and tracking of opportunities for new projects in Ghana.
• Contribute to the identification and formulation of activities to enhance community resilience to climate variability through improved local adaptation knowledge in Ghana.
• Liaise with local partners/stakeholders on TREE AID’s natural resources management and enterprise development implementation in formulating and developing appropriate complementary initiatives in Ghana.
• Support arrangements for and co-facilitating programme training workshops.
• Carry out any other tasks related to programme work as agreed with your line manager
• Contribute to provide fundraising and communications support/information to staff in the UK as appropriate.

Other (3%)

• Where appropriate, represent TREE AID Ghana at meetings and workshops relevant to TREE AID’s work as agreed with the GCPM and the Project Coordinator
• Be prepared to undertake visits to all of TREE AID focus countries when required
• Carry out other tasks as agreed with the Project Coordinator and the Ghana Country Programme Manager.

Key Success Factors For This Post

• Contribute to raising the profile of TREE AID’s CSO – RISE Project with external audiences and donors under Ghana Country Programme Manager
• Achieving agreed job targets.
• Timely provision of projects technical and financial reports and other information required
• Apply project M&E system and plan activities, monitor results and contribute for the evaluation.

Required Skills or Experience

• HND or Graduate in relevant subject (natural resource management, Agronomy, Integrated development Studies)..
• Must have at least three (2) years working experience in a similar position implementing projects.
• Must have demonstrated leadership skills/ability to work in a team and influence change with high community facilitation.
• Must share the vision and the values of TREE AID.
• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders and communicate and instal a shared vision.
• Excellent verbal communication and written skills.
• Ability to balance a number of conflicting demands.
• Must be computer literate
• Must be confident, hard working, able to work under pressure, and time conscious.
• Ability to work independently, self initiative and with good team work and rapport
• Ability to meet deadlines and achieve targets including extensive travel in the field.
• Must be bold, ambitious, professional, transparent and accountable
• Must have working knowledge in one of the languages spoken in northern Ghana (Kasem, Dagbani/Likpakpa and Buli, ). Ability to speak French is an added advantage.

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Job Description

Guide and Support in the project implementation;

• Coordinate the delivering of project activities that TREE AID will implement to time and budget – ensuring that relevant Co-applicants and stakeholders are involved at all stages.
• Provide technical, financial and project management advice, support and recommendations to project officers, co-applicants and stakeholders where appropriate.
• Ensure that TREE AID staff, co-applicants and stakeholders capacity is approproiate for delivering project activities.
• Coordinate the activities of agroforestry and biodiversity conservation practices, village trees enterprise and agriculture value chains and linkages.
• Facilitate mobilization of community people into producer groups (women, people with disabilities and the youth) mentoring them to migrat out of poverty.
• Provide technical and facilitation support to implement project activities, ensuring active participation of community and district stakeholders to achieve expected outputs
• Facilitate sessions on women rights and access and use of productive natural resources especially land.
• Ensure that step down trainings are performed right and provide support in research work of the project.
• Ensure that due processes are followed in financial transactions with value for money.
• Keep abreast of developments in the wider markets that could benefit or threaten the work of the project.
• Provide fundraising and communications support/information to staff in Ghana, West Africa and UK as appropriate.
• Maintain and coordinate a good relationship between project stakeholders

Key Success  Factors For This Post

Monitoring and evaluation and reporting 40%

• Manage the project staff in planning and completing activities on time and to budget.
• Support the design and utilisation of Monitoring and Evaluation tools to help track project progress including baselines establishment.
• Ensure that project reporting is delivered on time and contains relevant and quality information.
• Draft specific Terms of Reference tailored to carry out field visits to co-applicants, and support partners to improve their project implementation.
• Prepare timely reports for internal and external audiences that are of high quality.
• Ensure that regular finance reports are provided by TREE AID
• Provide support to develop and maintain supported platform for keeping a database of key project outcomes and producing suitable products for outreach.
• Coordinate the conduct of periodic reviews, reflections and planning meetings with co-applicants, communities and other stakeholders to inform project strategies.
• Conduct or ralise field visits

Support the development of TREE AID Ghana’s wider programme

• Support the identification and tracking of opportunities for new projects in Ghana.
• Contribute to the identification and formulation of activities to enhance community resilience to climate variability through improved local adaptation knowledge in Ghana.
• Liaise with co-applicants on TREE AID’s natural resources management and enterprise development implementation in formulating and developing appropriate complementary initiatives in Ghana.
• Support arrangements for and co-facilitating programme training workshops.

Other

• Where appropriate, represent TREE AID Ghana at meetings and workshops relevant to TREE AID’s work as agreed with the GCPM
• Be prepared to undertake visits to all of TREE AID focus countries when required
• Carry out other tasks as agreed with the Ghana Country Programme Manager.
• Contribute to raising the profile of TREE AID’s CSO – RISE Project with external audiences and donors under Ghana Country Programme Manager.
• Achieving agreed job targets.
• Timely provision of projects technical and financial reports and other information required
• Evidence of effective monitoring & evaluation systems development and adherence and consistency between these and TREE AID Monitoring & Evaluation systems.
• Good communication and relations with all staff in Ghana, the UK and West Africa as well as co-applicants (Action Aid Ghana and URBANET Ghana).

Required Skills or Experience

• Graduate in relevant subject (natural resource management, Integrated Development studies, Agonomy). Master degree in the relevant field will be an added advantage.
• Must have at least three (5) years working experience in a similar position managing projects.
• Must have demonstrated leadership skills/ability to work in a team and influence others positively.
• Must share the vision and the values of TREE AID.
• Must have experience in agroforestry and agriculture value chains.
• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders and communicate and instil a shared vision.
• Excellent verbal communication and written skills.
• Ability to balance a number of conflicting demands.
• Must be computer literate – good in excel, word and power point
• Must be confident, hard working, able to work under pressure, and time conscious.
• Ability to work independently, self initiative and with good team work and rapport
• Ability to meet deadlines and achieve targets including extensive travel in the field.
• Must be bold, ambitious, professional, transparent and accountable
• Must have working knowledge in one of the languages spoken in northern Ghana (Kasem, Buli and Dagbani). Ability to speak French is an added advantage.