CIFOR-ICRAF

Researcher – Community and Stakeholder Engagement Officer

CIFOR-ICRAF  •  Matale, LK (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description


Science
production


  • Support
    in conducting research activities (data collection and analysis), particularly
    in collecting data at the provincial and district levels.

  • Assist
    the project team in developing tools, manuals, and guidelines.

  • Develop
    monthly and annual (detailed) work plans (including stakeholder engagement
    plan) with appropriate approaches in consultation with the ICRAF project
    management and relevant scientists.

  • Liaise
    and network with local (and national) stakeholders, including governments,
    NGOs, and local community representatives, to ensure smooth project
    coordination and implementation.

  • Deploy
    suitable community engagement and analysis methods with relevant stakeholders
    as required in coordination with ICRAF scientists.

  • Support
    the project team leaders to ensure high-quality outputs and timely submissions
    of consultant and partner research outputs.

  • Document,
    communicate and advocate progress in the implementation of Green Value Chains,
    Payment for Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Landscape Management and Capacity
    Development processes.


Human capital


  • Support
    in research activities of students and interns, including facilitating and
    evaluating their work.

  • Assist
    the project team in strengthening the capacity of partners at national and
    sub-national levels, including facilitating and organizing training, workshops,
    and other events in collaboration with partners and country teams.


Game-changing solutions


  • Engage
    in setting up and functioning of soft institutions and stakeholder platforms
    with relevant stakeholders/stakeholder institutions for upgrading green value
    chains that support effective application of sustainable land management
    practices as per project requirements.

  • Assist
    in developing green value chain and sustainable financing networks connecting
    both existing value chains and those developed by the project at different
    levels.

  • Examine
    the benefit sharing across the different actors of the value chains and
    sustainable financing and propose actions to ensure equitable benefit sharing.

  • Motivate
    actors for sustainable landscape management practices and connect them
    effectively with value chain upgrades & PES mechanisms.

  • Contribute
    to strengthening coordination and synergies among external consultants engaged
    by both ICRAF and the PMU.

  • Represent
    the organization in engaging with public, private, and smallholder farmers in
    various events – as a resource person, participant, and other relevant
    capacity.

  • Contribute
    to local and national discussions on relevant topics of expertise in close
    coordination with the supervisor and Sri Lanka senior researchers.


Structural capital


  • Support
    the project team leaders to ensure accountability processes to donors by
    contributing to timely submissions of reports and activities on the ground.

  • Contribute
    to project reporting, monitoring, and evaluation in collaboration with other
    team members and project partners.

  • Participate
    in adaptive management reviews of implementation.

  • Maintain
    records on stakeholders and community engagements (e.g. prior notice, list of
    attendances and contacts, gallery of photos, agenda & minutes preparation).

  • Track
    the follow-up actions of the decisions taken in the meetings.

  • Provide
    monthly summary reports comprising type of engagement/meeting, decisions taken,
    progress of follow up actions and remarks, and contribute to the annual donor
    reporting as required.
CIFOR-ICRAF

About CIFOR-ICRAF

CIFOR-ICRAF brings more than 75 years of experience in harnessing the power of trees, forests, and agroforestry landscapes to address the most pressing global challenges of our time – biodiversity loss, climate change, food security, livelihoods and inequity. It has partnerships in 64 countries, 159 funding partners and 192 active projects, alongside more than 2,200 completed projects across 92 nations. The organisation has an annual budget of USD 100 million, and a combined legacy investment of USD 2 billion in research and technology, policy and development. On average, CIFOR-ICRAF research is cited nearly 137 times a day and appears in global media more than 3,000 times per year. CIFOR and ICRAF merged in 2019 and are both international organizations and CGIAR Research Centres. Learn more at cifor-icraf.org.

Industry
Biotech & Life Sciences
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Nairobi, KE
Year Founded
Unknown
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