We’re looking for a #badass who loves to engage with communities, uncover their deepest aspirations, and guide them towards making it happen. You thrive on unlocking the innate strength of local leaders, equipping them with the tools and confidence to solve challenges from within.
ARK Solves is a social impact innovator that co-invests with rural communities in the developing world who want to be food secure and self-sustaining in just 16 weeks. ARK solves hunger, transforms food systems, and builds climate resilient communities. We have the only sustainable food security solution out there. Over the past 4 years, we’ve proven that our behavior change model works. Check out our impact reports and hear from our partners.
Now, we need someone eager to share our Feed Back solution across the Philippines and the Global South, and transform a million lives in the next 2 years.
As ARK’s Relationship Officer, you will:
● On a day-to-day basis, manage and guide several communities across executing the flagship program, guiding them across the program workflow towards target goals and performance, ensuring adherence to milestones and program deliverables
● Directly supervise field-based officers and lead a community-based program team and volunteers to help execute on the program, resolve issues and conflicts, communicate on the ground, as well as secure insights and feed back from the community
● Spearhead week-to-week update reports and documentation across the managed communities; alongside the program operations team, help secure field data and stories, contribute to impact analysis and program content, provide insights and feedback, and as-needed, present results to external stakeholders
● Build and maintain strong relationships with both barangay and LGU leaders; identifying their personal goals and motivations, addressing conflicts as-needed. This includes setting regular coordination calls and meetings, and securing commitment towards the program, including formal agreements, budgets, resource deployment, program progress reports, critical updates weekly
● Alongside the program operations team, manage program budget and ensure integrity of accounting and cash flows.
● Occasionally travel to communities in rural and remote areas to lead program events, training, and other ad-hoc visits that tackle specific challenges.
● As-needed, support marketing and development work and other special projects; represent ARK in meetings, conferences, workshops, etc.
