Nature Kenya - the East Africa Natural History Society - is seeking to recruit dedicated, highly motivated, result oriented and innovative individuals for the following position.
Position: Site Action Facilitator (Intern)
Reporting to: Executive Director through the Local Action Manager
Place of work: Field and elsewhere as required
Position Summary
The Local Action Facilitator
will be part of a site action team responsible for catalyzing biodiversity
conservation action. S/he will promote environmental education for the young
and public to support perpetual conservation of Key Biodiversity Areas.
The facilitator will also
ensure Site Support Groups are vibrant in carrying out their conservation
actions including but not limited to public education, advocacy, monitoring and
livelihoods enhancement.
The Local Action facilitator
will also enhance public grassroot engagement in nature conservation and work
with the county and local administration to mainstream nature conservation in
policy formulation and
development projects, among other local actions.
In order to achieve this, you will have specific
responsibilities:
A. Reporting
1. Report to the Executive
Director through the Local Action Manager;
2. Support and facilitate the
SSGs to carry out their work;
3. Work with all Nature Kenya
staff where necessary to ensure the smooth delivery of the organization's
activities.
B. Environmental Education
1. Catalyze the formation of
environmental clubs in schools;
2. Facilitate the registration
of environmental clubs as Nature Kenya members;
3. Catalyze schools to set up
tree nurseries and distribute seedlings through children to plant at home;
4. Manage eco-resource centres
and ensure they fully function as environmental education repositories for
local communities and visitors;
5. Host children at the
eco-resource centres and educate them on environmental matters in their area
and outside as necessary;
6. Organize school events
around international environmental days for children to celebrate and create
awareness;
7. Organize interactive school
programs, including environmental art/poetry competitions for awareness
creation;
8. Seek help from stakeholders
and collaborators to support the running and maintenance of the eco-resource
centres;
9. Ensure full involvement of
SSGs in carrying out environmental education in schools within their areas;
10. Develop appropriate
environmental education materials;
11. Brand the resource centres
and schools (climate-smart schools) and other Nature Kenya investments at the
site level.
C. Strengthening SSGs
1. Support the SSGs to maintain
an active list of members;
2. Support the formation of
action implementation committees and maintenance of current lists of names for
each committee;
3. Support SSG to schedule and
keep records of their monthly meetings and annual general meetings;
4. Support SSG to uphold their
constitutions by holding elections as scheduled, defining the roles of each
committee member, submitting timely returns to the registrar, etc.;
5. Assist SSGs in bookkeeping
and maintaining records of assets and properties owned by the groups.
D. Community Engagement
1. Carry out organizational
capacity assessments (OCA) to identify gaps and drivers of SSG inaction, report
and make recommendations to inform a range of community-focused interventions;
2. Support the development of
Site Action Plans for saving species and conserving habitats, promoting
ecological sustainability, and improving livelihoods which incorporate monitoring,
restoration, influencing favourable government policies and decisions for the
retention and protection of nature and providing entrepreneurial training and
project development skills for the establishment of supplemental businesses for
women and youth;
3. Carry out regular needs
assessments to inform the training of SSGs, develop training programs and hold
training workshops to address capacity gaps;
4. Work collaboratively with
SSGs implementation committees to hold Chief/village, churches, women groups
and youth groups meetings to stimulate local nature conservation actions and
raise awareness;
5. Ensure engagement of the
local administration, i.e. chiefs, village elders, and ward administrators, in
the planning and execution of SSG local actions;
6. Coordinate marking of
important international environment days (World Wetlands Day, World Environment
Day, International Day of Forests, World Migratory Bird Day/Global Big Day,
International Day for Biological Diversity etc.) for optimal awareness creation
impact while capturing and documenting key details (number and type of
participants in attendance, number of people reached, number and type of
activities held, tree seedlings planted, the quantity of litter collected
etc.).
E. Monitoring
1. Support in KBA biodiversity
monitoring (basic, detailed and common bird monitoring);
2. Review site monitoring
protocols;
3. Build KBA biodiversity
monitoring capacity of SSGs.
F. Advocacy, Communication and Networking
1. Assist in building local
community voices to enhance grassroot conservation advocacy;
2. Assist SSGs to develop and
implement site advocacy strategies;
3. Consolidate information on
Nature Kenya/SSG conservation actions and communicate through radio, television,
print media, and NK communication platforms.
G. Other responsibilities
1. Undertake any other task
assigned by the Executive Director, Local Action Manager, or other Nature Kenya
managers.
Application Process
Kindly submit your application
letter and CV for the relevant position to the Executive Director by e-mail:
office@naturekenya.org no later than 24th June 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates
will be contacted.
