Country: Somalia
Closing date: 29 Feb 2016
COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale is a relief and development organization founded in Italy in 1965. COOPI’s envisions a world without poverty where diverse cultures live together sharing equal rights and equal opportunities. COOPI’s mission is to reduce poverty in the global South through interventions of long-term sustainable international cooperation. COOPI also conducts advocacy activities in Italy, to fight the cause of the serious economic gap between the North and South.
COOPI is part of the Somalia Resilience Programme; an NGO led consortium implementing resilience based initiative in Baidoa District, Bay Region. The objective of this program is to contribute to improved resilience and increased adaptive capacities for communities and households to protect their livelihoods over continuing shocks.
Natural Resource Management Officer (NRM)
Resilience Program Manager
10 Months (3 months probation period) with possibilities of extension
Baidoa district in Bay Region.
Technical activities:
• Community mobilization and sensitization.
• Support communities to identify, strengthen or develop community based early warning systems.
• Strengthen the capacity of communities to access and use seasonal weather forecasts through promotion of available information sources and training on usage of the forecasts.
• Capacity building of local communities on natural resource management and planning.
• Support the development of community rangeland and water management processes.
• Build capacity of communities to rehabilitate and manage strategic water points to ensure water availability during droughts.
• Assist communities to develop community based disaster risk reduction plans, action plans and to monitor the implementation of those plans.
• Facilitate local communities in participatory review and assessment of existing community natural resources and in documentation of traditional and formal strategies to manage these resources.
• Identify/strengthen and build the capacity of local institutions to manage natural resources.
• Organize for community forums or trainings on conflict mitigation and management.
• Support communities in identification and undertaking of environmental protection and rehabilitation projects
• Holder of a Natural Resource Management/Environmental Studies/ Degree/Diploma with three years of experience in rangeland management.
• Must be a Somali National with clear knowledge of the region of operation.
• Strong computer skills and ability to use standard computing packages (word, excel, outlook, power point, internet etc)
• Developed planning, organizational and research / analytical skills;
• Strong team working and interpersonal skills;
• Experience working in fast paced humanitarian programming in Somalia is an advantage;
• Be able to communicate effectively in Somali and English Language.
How to apply:
Start Date ASAP
Application Interested candidates who meet the required qualifications and experience are invited to submit their applications through email to hr.nairobi@coopi.org by 29th February 2016.
The application should be a cover letter and CV as one document and indicate the title of the position on the subject line.
Applications should include contact details of three professional referees. One referee must be the applicant’s Immediate supervisor.
COOPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
• Only short listed candidates will be contacted.