CARE began working in Zimbabwe in 1992 in response to a severe regional drought. After establishing a drought mitigation program, CARE began longer term developmental programs with local partners in building small dams, strengthening local microfinance institutions, and launching projects to assist small businesspersons in the rural areas.CARE Zimbabwe’s overall goal is to empower disadvantaged and poor households to meet their basic needs. Programs promote sustainable livelihoods of poor and vulnerable people.

CARE International in Zimbabwe is recruiting for an anticipated food security project targeting food insecure areas of Masvingo and Manicaland provinces. This project seeks to achieve sustainable food security with desired high-level objectives of poverty reduction and adaptive and absorptive capacity improved.  The organisation seeks to recruit outstanding candidates who are known for their excellence, professionalism, integrity and who are committed to providing support to vulnerable communities in remote locations of the targeted provinces. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for the positions posted below, which will be filled upon confirmation of funding availability for the project.

Partnering closely with all staff the position will be mainly responsible for ensuring that the implementation meets the needs of the communities and aligns with participant aspirations.

Key duties and Responsibilities
•    Engages with communities in a sustained, collaborative, and participatory process to identify implementation challenges.
•    Facilitates individual aspirations as well as community dialogue, creating potential pathways to reach their goals and aspirations, recognizing limitations and challenges.
•    Engages communities in sustained participatory learning throughout the life of the program to guide any necessary adaptation to the program and address challenges articulated in their journey to realize development aspirations.
•    Leads a shared visioning process for collective action, in which the various actors can contribute their perspectives, articulate aspirations, define individual and communal strengths and hoped-for contributions, voice concerns, and highlight success.
•    Manages community and stakeholder consultations and analyses during the programs’ initial refinement period and utilize the findings to formulate an effective community visioning Strategy for the program.
•    Trains and mentors team members on the realization of this strategy in the context of program implementation plans and contributes to other Refine period studies, and related program strategies.
•    Generates local solutions and strategies for addressing food and nutrition security issues and mobilize communities to work jointly to address these issues, building on existing cohesion among community members, fostering cohesion where it is weak, and ensuring psychological safety of poor and marginalized people to participate, contribute, and feel integrated.
 

•    Bachelor’s degree in the social sciences. 
•    Minimum of seven years of demonstrated experience in community visioning and social mobilization with experience in facilitating transformation leadership and shared visioning with communities.  
•    Demonstrated experience in facilitating learning and knowledge sharing processes, in establishing and managing dynamic feedback systems to capture ideas and mobilize communities. Ability to foster collaboration amongst diverse groups and communities is required.
•    Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources.
•    In-depth understanding of gender, age, and other locally significant socio-cultural factors in the context of food and nutrition security and resilience programming.
•    Demonstrated ability to build and maintain partnerships and productive working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders. 
•    Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity and Diversity, as evidenced in previous management positions or programming. 
•    Ability to translate complex and complicated ideas into easily accessible and understandable concepts and/or messages
•    Excellent, high-level, demonstrated written and oral communications skills in English is required.