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.