Summary

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership:

• Develop clear Digital Operations Manuals, tools and training modules for School Gardens and Farms to be productive and viable suppliers of school feeding commodities.
• Administers trainings on Climate Smart Agriculture practices in school settings and communities using digital technology
• Attend national technical working groups and conferences on Agriculture, and maintains effective working relationships with agricultural research institutions and allied National Ministries
• Cultivate and nurture relationships with the private sector for the supply of quality inputs that facilitate the adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies.
• Collaborate with LGAs on Climate smart agriculture’s approaches to facilitate adoption in schools and communities
• Provide leadership in forging partnerships with s of schools, local government, and communities to identify constraints to the adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies and collaboratively identify solutions
• Develop premier school garden and farm models that can be replicated easily.

Innovation & Program Quality:

• Identify promising scalable and cost-effective approaches that facilitate the adoption of climate-smart approaches including the use of digital technologies
• Develops and delivers integrated pest management training curriculum for extension agents, community groups, and School Garden Clubs.
• Strengthens capacity of Dodoma and Mara region administrations and the extension systems to apply integrated pest management (IPM) approaches and climate smart agriculture technologies.
• Develops and implements the school tree nursery model to expand the planting of multiple wood use wood lots
• Develops tools and approaches to monitor the adoption of climate-smart approaches in school- based gardens and farms.

Project Management:

• Tracks and reports on the amount of food from gardens and farms contributing to school meals.
• Oversees the development and monitoring of annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly workplans for the Agric sector.
• Supervises the implementation of participatory extension approaches that involves Government extension officers and leaders’ farmers
• Oversees the commodity price management system in Mara and Dodoma.
• Ensures close coordination with MEL to ensure the appropriate data is being collected
• Develops and monitors the sector budget, ensuring spending is within the approved budget ceiling.
• Proactively coordinates planning and implementation with the other technical sectors to ensure smooth and cost-effective program implementation
• Publishes at least two success stories per year.

Team management:

• Leads the recruitment of talented, experienced and competent agriculture sector Staff
• Mentors, coaches and trains staff and partners to build their capacity
• Nurtures an enabling environment, linking annual performance objectives to key performance indicators

Reports & Communications:

• Liaises with DCoP and respective sector Leads in developing and finalization of reports, and the final approvals of all programme reports
• Consistently develops high quality promotional material relating to climate-smart agriculture and, reviews and approves presentations prior to dissemination
• Collaborates with sector leads to identify operations and technical services support required from the Headquarters (HQ), schedule and follow up with the HQ on provision of support needed.
• Supports DCoP in building and maintaining relationships with donors, local partners, local government officials in Dodoma Region and beyond.
• Represents the programme in other technical external meetings, as assigned.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Support MEL in developing MIS for agricultural activities: collecting, cleaning, compilation, analysis and utilization.
• Develop systems to identify and report on program progress and quality of the activities
• Monitor the established linkages between the farmer groups (WE plus) and private sector, and ensure their sustainability
• Guide cluster-level staff for effective support during preparations and execution of school. specific Annual School Action plans (ASAPs) in collaboration with Commodities and School Feeding team
• Contribute to preparations, reviews and dissemination of Pamoja Tuwalishe program results via documentaries, quarterly reports, semi-annual progress reports (SAPR) and success stories

Education and Qualifications

Requirements

• 8+ years of agriculture program management with an NGO or any other development partners.
• At least ten years’ experience in training and equipping community groups to improve their household food security.
• At least 5 years’ experience working in school-based programs in Tanzania
• Experience in managing staff and empowering teams, and coordinating across teams
• In-depth experience in coordinating with government structures and representatives
• Experience in collaborating and doing business with the private sector
• Experience in carrying out market assessments and analysis, including but not limited to price monitoring, market integration, competitiveness analysis, and trader surveys

Characteristics

Reporting To

Deputy Chief of Party