Community Development Advisor (ILM)

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SNV Nigeria seeks a Community Development Advisor (ILM) based in Kano. The role involves facilitating community engagement, participatory assessments, and supporting sustainable land management and climate adaptation. Ideal for candidates with experience in community-based landscape management.

• Focus on community engagement and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) tools.
• Part of SNV's Soil Values program, promoting sustainable land management.
• Requires cultural sensitivity and ability to work with diverse stakeholders.

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Community Development Advisor (ILM) at SNV Nigeria ⏲ Jul 29, 2026, 5:06 AM ⋕ View all NGO & Humanitarian / Nonprofit Organizations jobs SNV is a global development partner, deeply rooted in the countries where we operate. Driven by a vision of a better world where all people live with dignity and have equitable opportunities to thrive sustainably, SNV strengthens capacities and catalyses partnerships that transform agri-food, energy, and water systems. We help strengthen institutions and effective governance, reduce gender inequalities and barriers to social inclusion, and enable adaptation and mitigation to the climate and biodiversity crises. With 60 years of experience: and a team of approximately 1,600 people, we support our partners in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia, tailoring our approaches to different contexts to achieve large-scale impact and create more equitable lives for all. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Community Development Advisor (ILM) Location: Kano Job Description Together with the FSRP, DGIS-Funded programs field teams, Country Field Lead and Local Implementation Partners (LIP), you facilitate the Community engagement and the ILM process to strengthen their capacity to guide and implement potential solutions. You are a trusted and experienced partner for internal colleagues and external stakeholders, particularly at community and local government levels. Support monitoring and knowledge sharing: Track progress of community watershed plans, document lessons learned and contribute to reporting and knowledge sharing within the Soil Values program. You are able to bridge the perspectives of consortium partners with the realities and needs of communities and national stakeholders, ensuring that interventions remain locally relevant and inclusive. Conduct Participatory Assessments: Lead participatory analyses with communities using PRA tools and Geoportal data to understand landscape constraints and identify sustainable land management opportunities. As a practitioner in community-based landscape and watershed management, you demonstrate cultural sensitivity and build strong relationships with communities and partners across the program’s intervention areas. Support community participation in watershed and landscape management activities, facilitate development of Community Action Plans and Local Development Plans, promote sustainable land management, soil fertility improvement, agroecological practices, and climate adaptation measures and strengthen conflict-sensitive approaches to natural resource governance and support collaboration with stakeholders and programs such as the Food Systems Resilience Program (FSRP) and DGIS funded Program to mobilize investments. You are skilled at managing change and building trust, enabling you to work effectively with farmers, community leaders, government institutions, and development partners. Through strong facilitation, guidance, and coaching, you support communities and local partners in developing and implementing sustainable soil fertility and land management practices. You actively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring the meaningful participation of women, youth, and marginalized groups in project activities and decision-making processes. Working in a results-oriented, flexible, hands-on manner, you are committed to achieving SNV and Soil Values program objectives. As an organized and strategic practitioner in community engagement and inclusive landscape management, you are able to manage multiple priorities while facilitating collaboration among diverse actors. During the process, you pay special attention to climate-resilient aspects of the solutions and conflict management on natural resources, such as land, water, pastures, and forest. In this role, you facilitate stakeholder engagement and community participation processes, support the development of community landscape management plans, and coordinate with local implementation partners and Field Leads to ensure effective implementation and learning within the Soil Values program. As Community Development Advisor, you are leading Soil Values community engagement approach in NIGERIA. By doing so you contribute to the component 2 – INTEGRATE – of Soil Values project. Capitalizing on the landscape assessments and ILM guidance provided SNV, IWMI, IFDC and other knowledge partners across several river basins, you drive a strategic agenda which engages partners and stakeholders towards next-stage landscape transformation on the following topics: Design and deliver training programmes for community groups and local partners, strengthen capacities of farmer organisations, cooperatives, watershed committees, and community institutions, Facilitate Farmer Field Schools (FFS), demonstration plots, and participatory learning platforms Develop simplified training materials in relevant local languages where necessary. Facilitate entry into project communities and maintain strong relationships with local stakeholder, Support community-based planning and participatory decision-making processes as well as the Inclusive Landscape Management (ILM) and watershed planning, organise stakeholder consultations, community dialogues, and sensitisation activities and Promote ownership of project interventions among beneficiary communities You make yourself familiar and further develop facilitation methods described in the Inclusive ILM guide to ensure that women, youth, pastoralists, and other vulnerable groups contribute to the discussions and that the solutions chosen also to address their specific problems. Duties & Responsibilities: The key responsibilities: of the Community Development Advisor will include the following points: Promote the meaningful participation of women, youth, and vulnerable groups in line with the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) approach; Conduct participatory assessments to identify challenges related to soil fertility, water management, land degradation, and land-use conflicts; Establish mechanisms for feedback, participatory monitoring, and adaptive management of interventions; Document activities, results, lessons learned, and recommendations through reports, field notes, and knowledge-sharing materials. Facilitate the development of inclusive integrated landscape management plans, defining priorities, roles, community commitments, and coordination mechanisms; Support farmers, community facilitators, and local groups in adopting and disseminating sustainable practices; Mobilize communities, local authorities, technical services, and women’s and youth organizations around a shared vision of sustainable landscape management; Organize training sessions and community learning initiatives on integrated soil fertility management, agroecology, land restoration, and water conservation; Qualifications To be considered for this role, you are expected to bring: Deep knowledge, interest and expertise in sustainable landscape development, and specifically to natural resource management linked to drylands and savannahs, land conflicts, and the reality of developing & fragile economies 5 years of working in consortiums, with good communication skills, experience: working with government and local implementing partners (local authorities, land commission, civil society) University Degree (master’s degree) in the field of rural development (Community Development, Agriculture, Sociology, Geography, etc.) 7 years of experience: in spatial planning, community-based watershed development, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, climate-smart agriculture, natural resource management, and/or agroecology/regenerative agriculture Advanced knowledge on Integrated Landscape Management, or related field is a plus. Fluency in English both written and spoken is required. Excellent intercultural leadership, teamwork, coaching, communication, networking and organizational skills. Willingness to extensively travel in the region, at least 25% of your time (also in fragile and conflict areas) Results-oriented skills and attitude as well as a commitment to working with local partners and in remote and fragile areas 7 years of relevant working experience: in a leadership role in the private sector, government agency or knowledge organization How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online Application Deadline: 12th August, 2026. View all Jobs in Nigeria Kano State