Field Officer Community Climate Solutions Zambia

Community Climate Solutions Zambia is looking to hire:

Field Officer role

Background Community Climate Solutions

Community Climate Solutions is a start-up focused on developing holistic and trusted carbon offset projects that benefit both the climate as well as the rural subsistence farmers. Headquartered in Zug and Lusaka, we have a team of over 30 people and are growing rapidly, with the majority of staff permanently residing in and serving over 100’000 farmers in Zambia.

Our carbon capture model is to empower rural subsistence farmers to reduce and remove carbon emissions from their own agricultural land and its surroundings. Our interventions are centered on (i) reducing uncontrolled bush fires and (ii) restoring the Miombo ecosystem, all by equipping and incentivizing the individual farmers. These activities increase carbon storage, which we monetize on behalf of the farmers using the voluntary carbon market. Executed with our social mind set and mission, this allows us to multiply the farmers income and drastically reduce severe poverty.

Our differentiating factors are (i) focusing on direct household payment, with farmers getting paid for the amount of carbon they remove on their own fields and surrounding areas, enabling them to become self-motivated eCO2preneurs. (ii) Our projects are embedded in an existing and expanding ecosystem comprising vocational education facilities, a microfinance institution and an affordable housing provider, which ensure community payouts are multiplied and invested for generations.

Job Description

We are now looking to hire a Field Officer with the following responsibilities:

• The Field Officer will be reporting to the Community Facilitator.
• Develop and maintain an inventory of participating beneficiaries in different activities around all the zones and any other area that will be added to the project.
• Assist the Community Facilitator, Community Development Officer, and the Senior Conservation Officer in preparing annual work meetings in particular, on intervention planning and coordination.
• Build awareness and deliver information to communities over project implementation and interventions as per the annual work plan. This requires weekly planning with Forest Guards and Zone Committees to effect patrol plan schedules.
• Coordinate monitoring, data collection, skills development, technical support and mobilisation of different community-based entities, engage zone committees and village leaders in all project activities with full consultation of all local-based stakeholders in each area.
• Mobilise user groups into the formation of effective producer groups and coach them to develop detailed work plans, entrepreneurial marketing plans and quarterly update meetings.
• Facilitate both farmers’ and lead farmers’ training in farming business skills, and record-keeping to ensure food security while coordinating such efforts with local Camp Officers under the Ministry of Agriculture.
• Help implement and locally adapt fire management tools at the village and household levels as mandated in the project design document.
• Maintain close collaboration with existing and new partners within the operational area in implementing programs.

Job Requirements

Please only apply if you fulfil the following requirements:

• Experience in community facilitation
• At least 2 years of conservation and agriculture project implementation
• Minimum of a Diploma in agriculture, conservation, environmental education, development Studies or any related field