A Contact está a recrutar (1) Agriculture Livelihoods Officer

The Contact is recruiting for its client, a multinational company operating in the Oil & Gas sector, (1) Agriculture Livelihoods Officer for Pemba.

Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Land Access Programs Manager, the main activities of the Agriculture Livelihoods Officer are to:
Sign in situ, on behalf of the Project, over 1,000 land-based and 2,000 fisheries-based compensation agreements;
Print compensation agreements and perform checks to ensure correctness before collecting signature by impacted families;
Conduct daily field oversight of the compensation agreement signing process, ensuring effective implementation of the household agreements signing procedure;
Perform checks on signed compensation agreements and proof of payments for completeness and file them;
Provide support to the resettlement affected households obtain documentation required for payment of signed compensation agreements, including tax certificates and banks accounts;
Ensure signed compensation agreement and proof of payment documentation are record through photograph and videotaping;
Participate in the investigation of new land occupations and participate in the feedback sessions to the relevant stakeholders;
Maintains physical and electronic filing system of compensation related documentation;
Daily field coordination of all preparatory work required for and the actual relocation of the physical relocation of families from their place of origin to the resettlement village;
Daily field coordination of all preparatory work required for (including engagement with affected families and local government) and oversight of the implementation partner (IP) responsible for the graves relocation.

Requirements:

University degree in relevant area, including rural development, economics, sociology or geography;
Minimum of five (5) years of experience in engaging communities for compensation, relocation of families and relocation of graves;
Negotiation and conflict management skills;
Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to develop and maintain good relations with stakeholders including local communities, government authorities, implementation partners and CSOs/NGOs.