Outreach Development Program (ODP)
Outreach Development Program (ODP) is seeking a Human Development Facilitator (HDF) to carry out community organising work in Kasungu. Facilitates participatory human development (PHD) process, a form of community-led development, in rural communities to enable people to resolve their poverty-related issues, develop their capabilities, raise their consciousness, and organise themselves.
POSITION: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FACILITATOR (HDF)
Location: Kasungu
Responsibilities
- Enable the people to collectively resolve their community problems, needs and issues through PHD Process
- Develop people’s capacity in problem solving, project development and organisational management.
- Facilitate formation of groups or organisation/s which will sustain development work in the village.
- Document community studies and updates on issues, projects and organisational development of the partner village.
- Formulate field operation plans – quarterly and monthly
- Conduct 3 days’ field work per week.
- Submit agreed reports, stories, photos and other required documents in the different levels of the training
- Provide a major role in networking of the people in the area with resource agencies, including local government offices.
- Assist in ensuring cooperation and coordination between and among project team and project partners
Qualifications
- College degree or some college-level experience in social sciences or other subject suited/related to community-led development work.
- Community organising experience. Significant experience will be considered in lieu of a college degree.
- Academic intelligence, social/cultural intelligence, and/or indigenous intelligence.
- Awareness about poverty and social realities.
- Emotionally mature
- Capable of carrying out work that is physically demanding (i.e. spending long days on your feet and walking over difficult terrain)
- Possessing the basic attitudes necessary in PHD work, i.e., open to accepting and learning from mistakes, has the interest and initiative to learn, is a critical and creative thinker, democratic, disciplined, able to integrate and be comfortable with poor people.
- Have no other commitments (be it ideological or otherwise) whose principles, practice and time demand are in conflict with PHD work.
- Applicants with motor bike licence shall have added advantage.
Requirement for application
Interested applicants should send their application letters together with the CVs not later than 18th September 2024. Through: The program coordinator, Outreach Development Program, Box 279, Kasungu. OR Email: odpmalawi@gmail.com or chrissyphiri@gmail.com