Overview
Support the large-scale deployment of the CAFI PES tool, ensuring effective partner onboarding, robust field data collection, and continuous improvement based on feedback.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead optimization and continuous improvement of mobile data collection forms.
- Support adaptation of data collection forms to new functionalities and PES activities.
- Collect, manage and coordinate requests for form adaptations.
- Ensure data quality, consistency and usability of field data.
- Conduct functional testing of CAFI-PES digital tool.
- Identify, document and report bugs and anomalies.
- Coordinate follow-up of tickets and ensure timely resolution.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of user experience.
- Facilitate transition of CAFI-PES from pilot to large-scale deployment.
- Define and implement partner onboarding processes and strategies.
- Deliver training sessions to partners on CAFI's PES methodologies and CAFI-PES use.
- Support partners in PES implementation and CAFI-PES use.
- Develop, update and localize training materials, user guides and operational documentation.
- Contribute to institutionalization and sustainable adoption of CAFI-PES.
- Support development and improvement of CAFI regional PES programme standards and operational rules.
- Support national contextualization in discussion with national partners.
- Contribute to development and refinement of methodological tools, templates and operational frameworks.
- Provide operational and technical guidance to PES programmes implementation.
- Capitalize field experience and lessons learned to improve PES practices.
- Collect, structure and report field feedback.
- Identify, categorize and prioritize functional and methodological improvement needs.
- Organize training-of-trainers/ambassadors sessions.
- Create user story tickets in JIRA for new developments and enhancements.
- Serve as a key interface between field partners, CAFI team and developers.
- Animate community of practices.
- Facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing.
- Identify and promote systems and applications for content management, knowledge management and sharing.
- Organize training for staff on ICT issues.
- Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years (with master’s degree) or 7 years (with bachelor’s degree) of professional experience in participatory natural resource management, environmental protection, performance-based payment mechanisms, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience with Kobo Collect tools.
- Demonstrated experience working on Payments for Environmental Services.
- Demonstrated experience supporting the development of a programme-related digital tool.
- Demonstrated experience in working with countries from the Congo Basin.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) Environmental Science, Economics or Development Economics, Natural Resource Management, or related area is required.
- Or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
