Job Description
Four development organizations in Togo strive to increase the quality of life of local populations (and specific groups such as women, youth, disabled persons and socio-economically disadvantaged populations) through capacity development in sustainable agriculture, environmental protection, entrepreneurship and related skills.
All four associations seek to increase and diversify their funding to support sustainability and to better serve their target groups. These organizations have been working on fundraising and resource mobilization, specifically through increasing their marketing and communications through social media. They are interested in collaborating with Virtual Service Pilot Participants to expand their financial reach, foster new partnerships, and seek opportunities to mobilize resources to support their activities and projects.
Each VSPP will be assigned to a partner organization during the post-led orientation at the start of their engagement. During their initial meetings, VSPPs will discuss objectives for the 13-week engagement, including initial training plans and mentorship opportunities. VSPPs will have regular check-ins with Peace Corps Togo staff and may collaborate with each other to share resources and lessons learned.
The organizations have previously collaborated with the Peace Corps. They understand that the role of a VSPP is very different than a Peace Corps Volunteer or Peace Corps Response Volunteer.
Desired Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree in international development, public/business administration, economics, public policy, or a related social science
Experience:
• Virtual engagement and communication
• Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Training and facilitation
• Social media and/or digital communication outreach for nonprofits
Required Skills
Education: Bachelor’s degree in any field
Language: Intermediate French
Experience: 1 year of fundraising and/or grant management for non-profit organizations
Intercultural skills and motivation: Flexible, strong cross-cultural agility, high tolerance for ambiguity, able to work independently, resourceful, creative, and genuinely motivated and capable to serve virtually
Host Country Partner’s Mission and Goals
GRAPHE: www.graphetogo.com
GRAPHE is a development association whose aim is to promote the improvement of quality of life through participatory community development programs. To achieve its aim, the organization involves women, socio-economically disadvantaged populations, and people with disabilities in its programmatic area of interventions, which are the following: Local Governance and Organizational Development; Economic Ownership and Women’s Entrepreneurship; Environmental Health; and Sustainable Agriculture.
AJDID: https://www.linkedin.com/company/actions-ajdid/?viewAsMember=true
The mission of “Actions des Jeunes pour un Développement Intégral et Durable” (AJDID) is to alleviate poverty and enhance the living conditions of rural communities through grassroots projects and initiatives. AJDID’s goals are threefold: empowering rural community members through sustainable agricultural and income-generating activities; improving community wellbeing through basic access to water and sanitation facilities; and promoting human rights. This partner uses integrated social media tools to monitor and record program activities.
AJVDT:
The mission of “Association des Jeunes Vaillants pour le Développement de Tône” (AJVDT) is to enhance the living conditions of youth and women through grassroots projects and initiatives. AJVDT’s goals are twofold: empowering women and youth through sustainable agricultural and income-generating activities; improving community sanitation via waste management and environmental health initiatives. Additionally, AJVDT is developing its target groups’ capacity in basic digital literacy as a relevant skill for their career and business development.
Kailend: www.kailend.org
The mission of Kailend is to contribute towards tackling social and environmental problems and to improve people's living conditions in its geographic reach. Kailend’s goals three-fold: training young farmers on integrated organic farming, processing, animal husbandry, bioenergy, on-farm research, land management and waste recycling; educating local children from the surrounding communities on sustainable organic farming approaches/practices through school trips; providing high-quality organic crops and processed food to local market for sale at affordable rates and reinvesting the profits from sales into philanthropic activities.
Virtual Service Engagement and Tasks
The VSPP will engage in the following tasks, in collaboration with their host country partners:
• Co-analyze the international, regional, and national funding trends in their areas of specialization
• Deliver four one-hour training sessions to staff on the following topics: strategies for fund-raising, project proposal development, and social media marketing for resource mobilization.
• Co-develop strategies for engaging, attracting, and sustaining funding partnerships or developing other methods of income generation/resource mobilization
• Advise staff on the development of project/program proposals or concept notes that use the organization’s strengths and respond to the interests of current and prospective funding partners
• Mentor and support staff on social media marketing, including creating content that inspires, informs and engages target audiences across existing and potential platforms
VSPPs are expected to engage on the tasks listed above for an estimated 5–15 hours per week. This engagement is estimated to be 5 hours (including 2.5 hours online exchange/support) per week for 13 weeks.
Online collaboration will generally occur between normal office hours 12:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Togo time. Specific times will be determined during orientation.
The Host Country Counterpart will have access to email, phone, Zoom, and WhatsApp for regular communication and collaboration.
Per the Child Protection Code of Conduct, when engaging online with minors (0–18), two adults must be present.
