Researcher – Community and Stakeholder Engagement Officer

Science production

• Support in conducting research activities (data collection and analysis) particularly in collecting data at the provincial and district levels.
  
• Assist the project team in developing tools manuals and guidelines.
  
• Develop monthly and annual (detailed) work plans (including stakeholder engagement plan) with appropriate approaches in consultation with the ICRAF project management and relevant scientists.
  
• Liaise and network with local (and national) stakeholders including governments NGOs and local community representatives to ensure smooth project coordination and implementation.
  
• Deploy suitable community engagement and analysis methods with relevant stakeholders as required in coordination with ICRAF scientists.
  
• Support the project team leaders to ensure high-quality outputs and timely submissions of consultant and partner research outputs.
  
• Document communicate and advocate progress in the implementation of Green Value Chains Payment for Ecosystem Services Sustainable Landscape Management and Capacity Development processes.
  

Human capital

• Support in research activities of students and interns including facilitating and evaluating their work.
  
• Assist the project team in strengthening the capacity of partners at national and sub-national levels including facilitating and organizing training workshops and other events in collaboration with partners and country teams.
  

Game-changing solutions

• Engage in setting up and functioning of soft institutions and stakeholder platforms with relevant stakeholders/stakeholder institutions for upgrading green value chains that support effective application of sustainable land management practices as per project requirements.
  
• Assist in developing green value chain and sustainable financing networks connecting both existing value chains and those developed by the project at different levels.
  
• Examine the benefit sharing across the different actors of the value chains and sustainable financing and propose actions to ensure equitable benefit sharing.
  
• Motivate actors for sustainable landscape management practices and connect them effectively with value chain upgrades & PES mechanisms.
  
• Contribute to strengthening coordination and synergies among external consultants engaged by both ICRAF and the PMU.
  
• Represent the organization in engaging with public private and smallholder farmers in various events as a resource person participant and other relevant capacity.
  
• Contribute to local and national discussions on relevant topics of expertise in close coordination with the supervisor and Sri Lanka senior researchers.
  

Structural capital

• Support the project team leaders to ensure accountability processes to donors by contributing to timely submissions of reports and activities on the ground.
  
• Contribute to project reporting monitoring and evaluation in collaboration with other team members and project partners.
  
• Participate in adaptive management reviews of implementation.
  
• Maintain records on stakeholders and community engagements (e.g. prior notice list of attendances and contacts gallery of photos agenda & minutes preparation).
  
• Track the follow-up actions of the decisions taken in the meetings.
  
• Provide monthly summary reports comprising type of engagement/meeting decisions taken progress of follow up actions and remarks and contribute to the annual donor reporting as required.