Project Field Assistant – Daka River Trees Restoration Project at TREE AID Ghana

Working within the framework of TREE AID Programme Strategy, the River Trees Field Assistants will be responsible for tasks as follows:

MAIN TASKS

1 Guide and Support communities on the project implementation

• Lead on TREE AID’s initiatives at organising communities for joint actions in the implementation of the project to time and budget.

• Assists in various field operations, trainings, data collection, and processing

• Facilitate communities to prepare Natural resources management (NRM) plans and assist in their implementation.

• Facilitate or organise communities into livelihood groups based on Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)

• Facilitate processes of delineation of project intervention areas

• Take steps to promote food, nutrition and income security using best practices

• Facilitate the setting up of tree mensuration approaches/strategies that will inform the project success.

• Assist and support the Project Coordinator on the testing of innovations component of forest related interventions.

• Ensuring tree species selection and maintaining tree seedlings production registers and inventories.

• Facilitating tree protection initiatives with communities

• Support communities to conduct land use mapping

2. Project Monitoring & Evaluation and reporting

• Support your line manager to increase key stakeholders consultations and involvement in the project delivery, monitoring and evaluation of project results.

• Initiate steps in project planning, Monitoring and reviews with communities.

• Conduct timely preparation of field activity reports.

• Conduct regular field visits to support communities

• Assist in the documentation of experiences and lessons for wider dissemination of these lessons across the landscape.

• Support to use M&E tools in field to benefit the project

3. Other

• Prepare for and participate in regular one-to-one progress and planning meetings with the project Coordinator and other Tree Aid staff

• Where appropriate, represent TREE AID Ghana at meetings and workshops relevant to TREE AID’s work as agreed with your line manager.

• Report any issues regarding project delivery, safeguarding, fraud and bribery to TREE AID Ghana office

• Contribute to increasing our impact leading to new river trees restoration projects in Ghana.

• Support arrangements for programme training workshops.

• Perform any other duty assign to you by your line manager and any other senior staff.

4. KEY SUCCESS FACTORS FOR THIS POST

• Raising the profile of TA’s River Trees Project(s) with external audiences

• Achieving agreed job targets.

• Timely provision of project field reports and other information requested

• Good communication and relations with all staff, in Ghana, the UK and West Africa as well as with TREE AID partners and other contacts.

Qualification Required & Experience

• Must have a HND or degree in natural resource management, Agriculture engineering, forestry, environmental science, agronomy etc.

• Must have at least three (1) year working experience in a similar position

• Must share the vision of TREE AID.

• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders

• Good verbal communication and written skills.

• Ability to balance a number of conflicting demands.

• Must be computer literate – excel, word, power point.

• Must be confident, hardworking, able to work under pressure, and time conscious.

• Ability to meet deadlines and achieve targets including extensive travel in the field.

• Must have working knowledge in one of the local languages spoken in northern region, Ghana especially Dagbani and Likpakpaln.

• Must be able to ride a motorbike extensively with riding licenses

Location: Yendi, Gusheigu municipalities and Mion District of Northern Region