COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST FUND (CDTF)

 (A joint Government of Kenya and European UNION Programme)

Community Development Trust Fund (CDTF) is a joint initiative of the Government of Kenya and the European Union that was established in March 1996 through Legal Notice No. 303 of 26^th March 1996. Under this collaboration and funding arrangement, CDTF is implementing a four year Programme, the Community Development Programme Phase Four (CDP 4) with two components, the Community Environment Facility Phase Two (CEF II) and the Community Based Development Initiatives (CDI) with funding from the European Union. The CEF II has received funding also from the Government of the Royal Kingdom of Denmark (DANIDA) through the Natural Resource Management Programme (NRMP). The main objective of the CDTF is to contribute to poverty alleviation efforts in Kenya by offering support in form of grants to community-based projects, which address basic social, economic and sound environment management priorities. CDTF’s mandate is to oversee the transfer of funds for implementation of community based development projects, and further oversee implementation of projects funded with the funds.

 Job vacancies have arisen in the two main component Programmes; CEF II and CDI that require to be filled on contractual basis by highly qualified and experienced Kenyan Nationals. The contract duration will be up to 30^th June 2014 subject to satisfactory performance. The positions are: 

• Technical Officer- Natural Resources, Environment and Wildlife
• Technical Officer- Social and Economic Infrastructure
• Regional Officer (2 posts)
• Driver

Closing date for receipt of applications is 8^th July 2011 at 5.00pm. Only short listed candidates will be contacted for interview. Applicants, who will not have received a response by 15^th August 2011, should consider themselves not successful.