The District Officer (ICB) will be responsible for implementing capacity building activities at the community level in their district. Their key responsibilities include developing capacity building plans for community institutions, ensuring capacity is built for institution building in cluster teams and communities, and ensuring capacity building activities occur at the district, cluster, and community levels. They will conduct needs assessments, design training strategies and materials, identify resource persons, provide training to cluster teams and communities, develop monitoring systems, deliver training programs, and submit regular reports. The key deliverables are training assessment reports, plans, modules, training reports, and ensuring community leaders and members are properly trained.

1. Social Development Foundation (SDF)
Terms of Reference for District Officer, Institution and Capacity Building (ICB)
District Officer (ICB) will be responsible for overall implementation of Institution & Capacity
Building activities at the community level. District Officer (ICB) will lead and execute the
Capacity Building (CB) plan and will assist the cluster teams. S/he will be responsible to carry
out the capacity building comprehensive planning; designing and delivering identified training
courses for district staffs and communities.
The Key Responsibility Areas are:
• Develop a Training and Capacity Building plan for Community Institutions;
• Ensure capacity is built in cluster teams and in the communities for institution building
• Ensure capacity building activities at the district, cluster and community level.
Specific Duties and responsibilities:
• Conduct Training Need Assessment ( TNA)and prepare an Annual/Quarterly/Monthly
Capacity Building plan;
• Design training strategy, curriculum and materials for different audience based on the
Community Operational Manual (COM), in consultation with the RM(ICB) & District
Manager and in close consultation with SDF’s CB cell;
• Identify and develop new training courses/learning events for communities and staff
based on feedback from the monitoring, evaluation, and learning system;
• Identify and maintain a database of available Capacity Building institutions, resource
persons (at community level) and utilize it for delivering Capacity Building Program;
• Provide handholding training to Cluster Teams and Village Communities on Institutional
aspects;
• Build Capacity of Cluster Teams and Communities on different activities to be taken
under NJLIP;
• Provide support to community professionals (CP) in implementing their activities;
• Develop a database and monitoring system to evaluate effectiveness and quality of
trainings to be delivered;
• Deliver the training program as per the annual implementation plan; and
• Submit regular reports/ updates to the concerned authorities of SDF;
• Any other assignment given by the management of SDF.
Key Deliverables:
• Training needs assessment reports, training plan and training modules & materials are
available;
• Training reports are prepared/compiled and finalized correctly and timely;

2. • Staffs and community leaders/members are properly trained and capable to operate
the village organizations.
Required Minimum qualification, Experience and competencies:
• Masters in Social Science/Development Studies/Agricultural Sciences or relevant
disciplines;
• Proficiency in preparing training report generation skills;
• The candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in the relevant field specially in
the capacity building activities at the community level;
• Should have knowledge on participatory development approaches;
• Strong analytical skills for training performance and impact evaluation;
• Must have to travel to the project villages and work with the rural community;
• Must not exceed the 42 years of age on the last date of submission of application for
this position as advertized in the national dailies.