Swisscontact promotes economic, social and ecological
development by supporting people to successfully integrate into local
commercial life. Swisscontact creates opportunities for people to improve their
living conditions as a result of their own efforts. The focus of its systemic
intervention in the private sector is the strengthening of local and global
value chains. Through its projects, Swisscontact works to enable access to
professional training, promotes local entrepreneurship, creates access to local
financial service providers and supports the efficient use of resources with
the goal of successfully promoting employment and income generation.
Swisscontact is active in 29 countries and has some 750
employees. The organization is based in Zurich.
The Swisscontact
project is a large Public Private Partnership (“PPP”) in Indonesia which was
established in January 2012. The Project is financed by the Swiss Secretariat
for Economic Affairs SECO, The Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH, the Embassy of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and five Private Sector Companies from the
cocoa sector for the duration from 2012 – 2015. The Program works directly with
60,000 cocoa farming households in six Indonesian Provinces to improve farm
productivity and livelihood conditions.
For our Sustainable Cocoa Production Program (SCPP) in
Indonesia, we are looking for a
Field Facilitator
Begin of Employment: January 2015 or as agreed
Place of Duty: Central
Sulawesi, Indonesia (10 persons)
Task, Authority, and Responsibility
- Socialize/introduce cocoa project intervention to community (cocoa farmers) in their working areas at sub-district level;
- Identify cocoa project area at village level in collaboration with government extension worker;
- Identify, train, and continue development of key farmers in their working areas at sub-district/district level;
- Identify, organize and manage day to day cocoa farmer trainings and demo plots in collaboration with Dishutbun extension worker and key farmers;
- Identify and develop cocoa farmer group in their working areas and support for the empowerment and development;
- Promote, facilitate and develop internal control system for cocoa certification;
- Work together with the Key Farmers in establishing and facilitate Cocoa Farmer Group and/or Smallholder Cocoa Enterprise (SCE);
- Train selected farmers to conduct a Farm Evaluation on aged and poorly producing plots and support them in the rehabilitation efforts;
- Conduct regular monitoring and collect data of Farmer Field School activities and follow-up of Farmer Field School training by cocoa farmers in their cocoa farms;
- Provide regularly weekly and monthly activity plan and reporting in weekly and monthly basis.
Skills/knowledge
- Strong sense of responsibility and control;
- Good interpersonal skills and commitment working in a team;
- Skills in computer, software systems (windows, spreadsheet, word processing, e-mail, internet.);
- Presentation skills.
Requirements
- University/bachelor/diploma degree majoring in Agriculture;
- Experience in the relevant field;
- Previous working with NGO is an advantage;
- Experience of planning an activity and managing its budget;
- Experience of risk mapping & Capacity Assessment on a local level.
Please submit your
application letter addressing the above qualifications and experience with your
curriculum vitae on December 12th, 2014 at the latest to:
Swisscontact, Human
Resources Unit, The Vida Building, 5th floor, Jl. Raya Perjuangan No. 8, Kebon
Jeruk – Jakarta Barat 11530 , Tél. +62 21 2951 0200
E-mail: hrd@swisscontact.or.id
Only short-listed candidates will be notified and
invited for interviews
