Job Overall Purpose: Coordinates, monitors and evaluates activities under Public Private Partnership.
Food security and nutrition
To plan, implement and monitor food security and nutrition project (FOSEK),
To co-ordinate with partner organisations on food security and nutrition project and link these to other initiatives so as to facilitate the exchange of information/ideas with other programmes,
To ensure overall coordination of all financial and technical reporting in close liaison with all partners is carried out at specified intervals,
To provide technical support in the implementation of food security and nutrition project,
To plan, organize and conduct training and orientation for food security and nutrition projects, for the purpose of capacity building,
To undertake field visits and surveys in order to monitor and evaluate programme implementation,
To identify problems and propose remedial action while identifying alternative courses of action to accelerate/improve programme delivery,
To ensure cross-cutting issues of HIV/Aids, Youth, Gender and Climate Change are incorporated within the programme,
To coordinate and establish effective monitoring, information and reporting systems, and in the development of communication materials and strategies in order to maintain an updated database of documentation on findings and lessons learned.
Communications
Develop company literature and other forms of communication including the planning and delivering of educational materials.
Recommend, implement and maintain website design and operation.
Liaise with management in the design of communication and launch of campaigns, organization functions, events and exhibitions,
In liaison with management create press releases, news, briefs, stories, media relations content, case studies, in-house newsletter content, social media content, and speaking proposals.
Identify, develop and execute communications strategy for key media contacts and customer references.
Proposal Writing
To study requests for proposals (RFPs), request for concept notes (RfCNs) and expressions of interest (EoIs) and aligning these to the overall strategy through identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs,
To gather proposal information by identifying sources of information; coordinating submissions and collections; identifying and communicating risks associated with proposals,
To develop proposals by assembling information including project nature, objectives/outcomes/deliverables, implementation, methods, timetable, staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation; writing, revising, and editing drafts including executive summaries, conclusions, and organization credentials,
To meet proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval; entering and monitoring tracking data; coordinating requirements with contributors; contributing proposal status information to review meetings; transmitting proposals,
To maintain quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; and improve proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes,
To obtain approvals by reviewing proposals with key providers and project managers, maintain work networks that aid in knowledge on proposals and manage proposal support databases.
Person Specifications:
Academic / Professional
At least a Masters qualification in Business Administration or any other relevant qualification for this position,
A First degree in Agriculture/Agribusiness/Agricultural Economics or any other relevant course,
Not less than 5 years relevant experience and which should include programme planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation.
Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Good interpersonal skills
Good presentation skills
High problem solving skills
High level of accuracy
High Integrity
