Animateur (trice) territorial(e)

Cowater International Inc.

Role and responsibilities

• Ensure close communication with rights holders producing the raw material, cooperatives, local state structures and field partners for the project, ensure the deployment of the project's communication strategies, and ensure the understanding and support of stakeholders for these strategies;
• Collaborating in the preparation, organization and implementation of training, awareness-raising and capacity-building activities, particularly with regard to the structuring of the upstream argan sector;
• Supporting experts during the deployment of activities and training to promote local ownership and full participation of communities, particularly women;
• To design, implement and monitor the plan of awareness-raising activities to be carried out in their respective provinces;
• Supporting rights holders, producers and stakeholders in the creation of Afffyache Fruit Collection and Crushing Centres (CCCA) and Zinc Packaging Units (UCZ);
• Coordinate and/or participate in local consultations, project communications with civil society and local structures in consultation with the provincial representation of ANDZOA;
• Conduct interviews, surveys, polls and testimonies with project beneficiaries, necessary for the proper monitoring and measurement of the results of project activities;
• Collaborating in the development of tools or promotional materials for project stakeholders;
• Promote the participation of women in decision-making mechanisms at the level of civil society organizations, at the family level, community level, in the structures of the argan sector and within oases;
• Initiate dialogues and meetings between men, women, boys and girls concerning gender equality issues in the argan sector and oases;
• Participate in the preparation of budgets for provincial activities;
• To provide logistical support for provincial activities (booking training rooms, booking and coordinating local transport and accommodation for staff or consultants, etc.)
• Conduct the necessary surveys and interviews to collect field data, including data disaggregated by sex;
• Perform any other task deemed necessary by the team leader to achieve the project objectives.

Job qualifications and requirements

• Holder of a Bac +2 or higher, in the field of development, agronomy, economics, management or any other equivalent diploma;
• Minimum 3 years of proven experience as a territorial facilitator in Morocco, ideally in the field of agricultural sectors and within the arganeraie biosphere reserve;
• Experience in raising awareness and training in different environments, ideally in connection with the cooperative sector and/or the agro-sylvo-pastoral sectors;
• Good knowledge and experience in management support and consulting for agricultural professional organizations;
• Have a type B driving licence with driving experience;
• Proficiency in computer tools (office suite, Outlook);
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, leadership and diplomacy;
• Knowledge of the actors and actresses in the argan sector in Morocco is highly desirable;
• Adherence to the principles of equality between women and men is essential;
• The position requires travel across the country.