REPORTING TO: Project Coordinator
ROLE TYPE: 2 months consultant, till end of September,2024
CLOSING DATE: 17th of August,2024
ABOUT ARK:
ARK is a social enterprise, empowers local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.
We believe that strong, resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability – and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world. At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008. As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.
Learn more about our impact here: https://www.ark.international/impact
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Building Peace in Yemen (BPY) aims to address the root causes of conflict related to land and water disputes, by adopting a People-to-People approach to conflict prevention. By collaborating with local authorities and community-led initiatives in the South of Yemen (Aden, Abyan and Hadramout), the project will establish effective conflict resolution mechanisms, support agricultural practices, and enhance water management. Additionally, BPY will use social media to foster dialogue and counter hate speech, ultimately strengthening community cohesion and reducing the likelihood of violence.
The Field Officer will collaborate closely with the Project Coordinator to ensure the timely planning and implementation of activities for the targeted communities and support the field assistants as needed. Additionally, the Field Officer will monitor activities on the ground and provide daily, weekly, and monthly reports on project progress.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Supervise the Field Assistant team and offer the needed guidance to ensure the quality of implemented activities on the ground.
- Prepare the weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and ensure their timely submissions.
- Supervise activities, local partners' activities, in the field regarding water and land disputes, natural resources management and establishment of Community Councils (CC).
- Supervise and support climate change impact plans, resolution plans and water management plans.
- Support climate-resilient agricultural practices, including technical and material support to farmers including but not limited to: The rehabilitation of arable land with techniques that include crop rotation, irrigation management, organic fertilization, drought-resilient crop plantation, controlling erosion, and the activation of agricultural cooperatives.
- Support the targeted communities in sustainable water resource management. The activities of these grants will include technical and material support for rainwater harvesting and water reservoirs.
- Activate or establish inclusive local councils that lead in scanning the outstanding land and water disputes, analysing them, and resolving them through the existing community conflict resolution mechanisms.
- Build the capacity of the local councils and the existing conflict resolution mechanisms on conflict analysis, resolution, and mediation.
- Coordinate with CCs / CBOs (community-based organizations) / COSs / governmental bodies / community members and partners at field level.
- Support climate-sensitive peacebuilding initiatives that promote equitable resource management, while identifying and addressing potential challenges through collaboration and ideas-exchange.
- Maintain positive working relationships with all parties involved in the project, including local authorities, line-ministry offices and institutions, CCs, CBOs, CSOs (Civil Society Organisations), community leaders, and vulnerable groups (women and youth).
- Collaborate closely with the project team to share themes related to advocacy in advance and makes sure that initiatives and messages related to community awareness and advocacy are well-informed.
- Boost the understanding of project team and stakeholders of what is working, what the challenges are and where there are gaps in addressing challenges and requirement interventions/activities.
- Undertake any other tasks as assigned by the relevant line manager.