Project Field Assistant - Daka River Trees Restoration Project at TREE AID Ghana

• Lead on TREE AID's initiatives at organising communities for joint actions in the implementation of the project to time and budget.
• Assists in various field operations, trainings, data collection, and processing
• Facilitate communities to prepare Natural resources management (NRM) plans and assist in their implementation.
• Facilitate or organise communities into livelihood groups based on Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)
• Facilitate processes of delineation of project intervention areas
• Take steps to promote food, nutrition and income security using best practices
• Facilitate the setting up of tree mensuration approaches/strategies that will inform the project success.
• Assist and support the Project Coordinator on the testing of innovations component of forest related interventions.
• Ensuring tree species selection and maintaining tree seedlings production registers and inventories.
• Facilitating tree protection initiatives with communities
• Support communities to conduct land use mapping

• Support your line manager to increase key stakeholders consultations and involvement in the project delivery, monitoring and evaluation of project results.
• Initiate steps in project planning, Monitoring and reviews with communities.
• Conduct timely preparation of field activity reports.
• Conduct regular field visits to support communities
• Assist in the documentation of experiences and lessons for wider dissemination of these lessons across the landscape.
• Support to use M&E tools in field to benefit the project

• Prepare for and participate in regular one-to-one progress and planning meetings with the project Coordinator and other Tree Aid staff
• Where appropriate, represent TREE AID Ghana at meetings and workshops relevant to TREE AID's work as agreed with your line manager.
• Report any issues regarding project delivery, safeguarding, fraud and bribery to TREE AID Ghana office
• Contribute to increasing our impact leading to new river trees restoration projects in Ghana.
• Support arrangements for programme training workshops.
• Perform any other duty assign to you by your line manager and any other senior staff.

• Raising the profile of TA's River Trees Project(s) with external audiences
• Achieving agreed job targets.
• Timely provision of project field reports and other information requested
• Good communication and relations with all staff, in Ghana, the UK and West Africa as well as with TREE AID partners and other contacts.

• Must have a HND or degree in natural resource management, Agriculture engineering, forestry, environmental science, agronomy etc.
• Must have at least three (1) year working experience in a similar position
• Must share the vision of TREE AID.
• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders
• Good verbal communication and written skills.
• Ability to balance a number of conflicting demands.
• Must be computer literate - excel, word, power point.
• Must be confident, hardworking, able to work under pressure, and time conscious.
• Ability to meet deadlines and achieve targets including extensive travel in the field.
• Must have working knowledge in one of the local languages spoken in northern region, Ghana especially Dagbani and Likpakpaln.
• Must be able to ride a motorbike extensively with riding licenses

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