Community Mobiliser

**Hiring for: Officer (Agriculture & Livelihoods)**

**Location : Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) Rayagada, Odisha, India (On-site)**

**About the job**
- Application mentioning purpose and expected salary along with recent resume to be submitted
- Remuneration negotiable as per knowledge and experience

**A little bit about who we are**

At WOTR, we are committed to tackling the key causes of rural poverty by rejuvenating ecosystems and building the community’s resilience to climate change by enhancing Water availability, increasing land and agricultural productivity, diversifying livelihoods, empowering women, and strengthening the health and well-being of vulnerable rural communities.

WOTR brings together practitioners, academics, researchers, trainers, and policy makers to work collaboratively in building the resilience of rural communities. Our partners, including donors and government agencies stand resolutely behind us to effect this.

To date we have worked in 10 states in 4345 villages and impacted 4.43 million people in our three decades of existence.

**Who are we looking for?**

We are on the lookout for a Community Mobiliser to assist in the social mobilization and organizational aspects of project implementation. The duties include planning, executing, and monitoring project activities, attending and conducting meetings with various community groups, organizing trainings related to agriculture, technical skills, social issues, and women’s empowerment, maintaining project records, collecting data for impact studies and case studies, building linkages between the community and government departments or other agencies, and performing any other tasks assigned by the organization.

**At WOTR you will**
- Assist in the social mobilization and organizational aspects of project implementation.
- Assist in planning, execution and monitoring as well as assist in monitoring and reviewing of activities in the project area.
- Attend and conduct meetings of Gram Sabha, VDC, SHGs, farmer groups etc.
- Organise agriculture, technical, social and women-related project level trainings for representatives, SHGs members, Farmers groups, village Organisations (VO), and VDC members on project objectives.
- Be responsible for keeping project records as prescribed by the Project Manager
- Support the Project Manager to collect the data for impact studies, case studies, Photo documentation etc.
- Build linkages of the community with the Govt. departments and other agencies
- Perform any other task assigned by the organization from time to time.
- Graduation in Social Work/ Sociology
- Any Graduate with 3 years of experience of working with rural communities
- Basic understanding of MS Office and other computer software is desirable
- Fluency in speaking Odiya language is must and understanding of Hindi is desirable
- Willing to stay, travel and work in remote villages.
- Your own motorcycle/2-wheeler