Job responsibilities

• Providing leadership, direction, and management of project activities, resources, equipment, and information.

• Ensuring that all articles of the project Memorandum of Understanding between HGBF and MINAGRI are adhered to.

• Serving as the link between MINAGRI and project beneficiaries, local leaders, extension agents in the project areas.

• Leading the development and updating of project activities plans and ensure that developed action plans and budget allocations are aligned to project objectives.

• Preparing activities budget and ensuring compliance with the grant MoU between HGBF and MINAGRI.

• Coordinating and providing direction to partner organizations and institutions implementing conservation agriculture and regenerative agriculture in the country.

• Leading the harmonization of CA messaging within the extension services in the country.

• Ensuring that the CA messaging and good agriculture practices delivered by different partner institutions and organizations is consistent to avoid conflicting messages being given to farmers.

• Setting timeframes for specific project activities, managing the implementation schedule, and organizing logistics needed for field activities.

• Ensuring inclusion of CA in district action plans and extension services to ensure its mainstreaming in the national extension systems.

• Supervising the Conservation Agriculture Field Specialists, FoBaSi focal persons, and other project staff, set their performance targets, and guidance them to achieve expected project deliverables.

• Overseeing the Monitoring and Evaluation of project activities and tracking progress against the project’s key indicators.

• Preparing regular and consolidated progress reports and documenting lessons learned to inform adaptation and scale-up of field activities.

• Representing the project in stakeholder meetings, policy dialogues, and learning events.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Project Management

  1 Years of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Rural Development

  1 Years of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Agribusiness

  1 Years of relevant experience

• PhD in Natural Sciences

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Environmental Studies

  1 Years of relevant experience

• PhD in Project Management

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Agricultural Sciences

  1 Years of relevant experience

• PhD in Agribusiness

  0 Year of relevant experience

• PhD in Rural Development

  0 Year of relevant experience

• PhD in Environmental Studies

  0 Year of relevant experience

• PhD in Agricultural Sciences

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Natural Resources

  1 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Experience in management of rural development projects at provincial or national level

• Experience in community engagement and mobilization

• Experience in training farmers

• Demonstrated relevant management and leadership experience