Scope of Work

Organizational Overview:

Global Communities is an international NGO with deep roots in over 30 countries across the world covering the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In Kenya, Global Communities has partnered with Millenium Water Alliance (MWA) and Food for the Hungry (FH) in Marsabit County to pilot the Afriscout Regenerative Grazing Project with at least two Rangeland Management Committees (RMCs).

AfriScout Overview:

AfriScout is an innovative, Base of Pyramid (BOP) social enterprise and a subsidiary of Global Communities (GC). AfriScout is seeking to improve climate-smart management of Africa’s drylands and the livestock that rely on them by scaling access and use of the mobile application that provides pastoralists with actionable grazing data. With the support of USAID, Google, and other donors, GC developed grazing maps that fuse traditional livestock herding knowledge and practices with real-time satellite imagery on vegetation and water as well as crowdsourced alerts that are then integrated into an android-based mobile application.

Currently, AfriScout is focused on implementing regenerative grazing with the communities to reverse the effects of climate change on the rangelands. This is done by combining technology, traditional knowledge and regenerative grazing principles to help the users to adapt to climate change, restore their dryland ecosystems to healthier grasslands, improve the value of their livestock and livelihoods, and increase their food security.

Position Description: 

The Field Agent will be a part of a growing global team (US, Kenya Tanzania, Ethiopia) that is enhancing the way pastoralists make migration decisions by providing relevant digital information. Global Communities seeks to recruit individuals who are mission-driven, passionate and experienced in community engagement and mobilization, and is excited about the opportunity to work on a social enterprise project that could have huge impact to not only change his/her rangeland but also some of the most marginalized populations across the African continent. In Kenya, the social enterprise will be focused in introducing and implementing the regenerative grazing project in Hurri Hills and Elebor RMCs as well as AfriScout Steward in the rest of Marsabit county as well as Garissa, Wajir, Kajiado, Samburu and Isiolo counties. The successful candidates’ assignment will involve community training and mobilization, rangeland mapping, user education and adoption, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance amongst others.

Key duties and responsibilities:

The Field Agent will have the following main duties:

Support the Community Engagement Associate in the launch of Regenerative Grazing activities in assigned Regenerative Grazing Units (RGUs) and support the digitization of the Regenerative Grazing Unit (RGU) maps. The specific duties will include:

• Introduce Global Communities and the AfriScout Social Enterprise to community members of the assigned Regenerative Grazing Units.
• Support the Community Engagement Associate in training the communities about the Regenerative Grazing Project.
• Get the buy in of the local leadership at the RMC level for each Regenerative Grazing Unit (RGU) – including both the traditional and formal representatives.
• Help formulate the management structures of the Regenerative Grazing Units with representation from existing formal and information structures, women, youth and other vulnerable groups.
• Support the formulation and documentation of the Regenerative Grazing Units’ bylaws with inputs from the Regenerative Grazing Unit (RGU) members as well as neighboring communities.
• Support the Community Engagement Associate in mapping the Regenerative Grazing Units according to the mapping protocol.
• Support the Community Engagement Associate in collecting accurate GPS data in a timely manner to facilitate the digitization of the Regenerative Grazing Units’ maps.
• Verify the Regenerative Grazing Units’ digitized maps with the help of the management structure, the Regenerative Grazing Units’ members and other local stakeholders.
• Strengthen or coordinate the existing grazing management structures

Support the implementation and monitoring of the RG project activities in the assigned Regenerative Grazing Units: The specific duties will include:

• Support the Regenerative Grazing Units’ management to formulate and implement at least 2 wet and 2 dry season grazing plans each year.
• Work closely with the CE Associate to collect initial data, monitoring data, and end of season data for ALL the grazing plans formulated above.
• Work closely with the Regenerative Grazing Units’ management structure to accurately implement the grazing plans above and minimize leakage from the Regenerative Grazing Units to other rangelands.
• Conduct monthly trainings for the Regenerative Grazing Unit’s (RGU) management structure and members on specifically selected topics, based on the training manuals, that will strengthen the understanding of regenerative grazing and increase adherence to the grazing plans.
• Work closely with the CE Associate to accurately collect monthly data on the livestock movement taking specific interest in the actual movement of the livestock, adherence to the plan and leakage to other rangelands.
• Periodically help the Ops team to carry out studies, evaluations etc for the Regenerative grazing project.
• Other duties as assigned.

• The candidate should preferably reside in or be sourced close to the community that he/she will be assigned.
• He/she should have strong ties with the local leadership and an understanding of the local culture and norms.
• He/she should have basic education with at least a secondary school certificate OR at least 4 years of experience in community engagement.
• He/she should be literate and conversant in both speaking and writing Borana, English, and swahili.
• He/she should be computer and/or smartphone savvy/literate, capable of quickly learning to use the AfriScout app, master the Regenerative concept and transferring that skill to the communities.
• He/she should also be conversant with or able to quickly learn about monitoring and data collection using mobile devices.

Remuneration:

The consultant will receive the following:

1. A fixed end month stipend of KES 25,000.
2. Fixed monthly airtime of KES 2,000 to purchase data and minutes for user engagement.

Varying monthly field facilitation fee payable depending on assigned activities and schedule approved by the CE Associate. This will include a daily meal and incidentals allocation of KES 1,500, a daily accommodation rate of KES1,000, and a varying daily transport amount assigned depending on the means of transportation used by the FA.

All payments will be subjected to taxation based on Kenyan laws.

Mode of application:

• Cover/Application letter
• Updated CV
• Certificates/testimonials

SEND ONLY to procurementke@globalcommunities.org with clear subject: FIELD AGENT on or by 14^th December 2025

Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Global Communities is an equal opportunity employer