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Community Initiative Officer - Arusha , Tanzania

Community Initiative Officer 

Background : In line with the mission of Omasi, the Social Department plays
a critical role in creating viable, locally owned enterprises producing
economic gains and beneficial social outcomes that help counter rural-urban
migration. The core business of OMASI´s Social Department (SD) is to build
and foster strong linkages between the Omasi and the communities with a view
to promote the economic, social and environmental impact of Omasi and its
value chains and enhance the social-economic welfare of the rural
population. 

Function characteristics:

The community initiative officer will play a central role in realizing these
objectives by performing the following duties and tasks

· Support the Omasi Liaison Manager to develop and implement a
strategy and plan for OMASI involvement with and support to communities,

· Identify and select the villages, sub-villages and communities
with whom Omasi and its partners will work for specific projects

· Support communities, groups and/or social entrepreneurs in the
planning and feasibility analysis (business case) of economic initiatives.
Examples: (SisiOmasi) shops, milk bikers, wood collectors groups, bakeries,
candle factory ...

· Establishment and strengthening of producer associations and
similar groups like beekeeper groups, milk suppliers associations, wood
collections groups.

· Support the establishment of social businesses by individual or
group entrepreneurs (like bakeries or shops) and coach these entrepreneurs
during start-up of their business.

· Support and strengthen the communities in managing and maintaining
water and electricity supply systems.

· Capacity development, training and coaching of community groups
and individuals in skills needed to run their projects (technically and in
management)

· Help introducing a micro-finance facility that will allow groups
and individuals to access financial resources for investing in their
projects, 

· Support the community-based environmental conservation and natural
resources management programmes of OMASi 

IMPORTANT : in all of the above activities the officer will work closely
together with other actors especially :
- Omasi value chain groups and companies
- NGO’s like IOPA 
- micro-finance institute or rural bank
- government departments.

Qualification and skills:

- MSC (or BSc) in Community development economics with at least 5
years experience in social-economic development programmes and/or social
enterprises,

- Hands-on attitude and necessary social skills to pro-actively
take up and carry out social-economic projects with communities / groups in
rural areas 

- knowledge and experience in project planning including financial
and economic feasibility analyses (fair expertise in business case
development) 

- experience in participatory community-based development processes
and methodologies

- acquainted with the characteristics and challenges of social
business development.

- good knowledge and insight in rural development issues and
challenges specifically of Simanjiro District and Maasai society

- fluent in English, Kiswahili and Maasai language

- good English writing skills 

- team player, networker, strong social skills, good communicator

Please send your CV and motivation letter to Group Human Resources Manager,
P.o.Box 12785, Arusha or Email to: israel@omasi.org