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 piloting resilience based initiative in Dolow District, Gedo Region. The objective of this program is to understand the root causes of vulnerability in pastoral, agro-pastoral, peri-urban households and community groups in selected locations in order to enhance the resilience of communities through a focus on productive capacities.
Position: Natural Resource Management Officer (NRM)
Reporting to: Resilience Program Manager
Duration: 6 Months Until December, 2015 with possibilities of extension
Location: Dolow district in Gedo 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
- Qualification
- Holder of a Natural Resource Management/Environmental Studies/ Degree/Diploma with three years of experience in range land 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.
- START DATE: ASAP
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates who meet the required qualifications and experience are invited to submit their applications through email to hr.nairobi@coopi.orgby 7th July, 2015.
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.
