Job Description
Duration: Full time fixed term contract – up to May 2022
Salary: Competitive
Location: Based in either Addis Ababa, Kampala or Nairobi, with quarterly visits to project locations (South Omo, Ethiopia; Karamoja, Uganda)
Farm Africa is mid-way through delivering our £5m Livestock for Livelihoods (L4L) project in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region and Ethiopia’s South Omo zone funded by the UK government (UK Aid). Under this programme Farm Africa is working with local civil society, SMEs, cooperatives and farmer organisations to develop market systems that support livestock services and enterprises for 21,000 women, contributing to women’s economic empowerment, reduced poverty and improved nutrition of women and children. The project is addressing market failures in animal health and breeding services to improve livestock productivity, building capacity and assets of herders, establishing trade and enterprise opportunities and improving household nutrition practices through behavioural change. It will also demonstrate how nutrition interventions can build on women’s economic empowerment to contribute to both increased income and improved household nutrition.
The project is split in three independently managed component: the Ethiopia-project, the Ugandaproject, and the overall knowledge and programme support component.
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Chief of Party for the Livestock for Livelihoods project (CoP-L4L). The CoP-L4L will be responsible for the overall sound management of the project, including maintaining excellent donor relationship and steering the knowledge management component. Whilst responsibility for country-specific project implementation lies at country-level in the two sites, the CoP-L4L will be responsible for providing coordination and technical leadership to the country teams and will ensure that all cross-country delivery commitments are met, including synthesising and delivery of donor narrative and financial reports.
Required skills/expertise:
Technical
MSc degree in a relevant field
A minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in relevant sectors, including at least two of the following areas: livestock, livelihoods, nutrition and private-sector services development, demonstrating knowledge of how actions and interventions can be integrated across these sectors, and experience of generating knowledge from interventions in these sectors
A solid understanding of the role of community-based approaches in livelihoods and nutrition interventions
A solid understanding of gender-dynamics, preferably in pastoralists communities in East Africa, and a demonstrated interest in the inclusion of gender-balanced approaches in all development interventions
A solid understanding of market systems, including market-based mechanisms for risk management, and incentives driving private sector decisions
High level of analytical and conceptual thinking, and ability to quickly grasp new or unfamiliar technical considerations and integrate them into project learning and implementation approach.
Programme and stakeholders management
Extensive experience and demonstrated successes in managing and implementing integrated and complex projects that involve multi-sector, diverse groups of stakeholders
Demonstrated leadership experience, team work, and excellent networking skills, with proven track record of working across different departments in problem solving to address complex issues
Proven track record of grant management, including understanding, interpreting and delivering against contract requirements, and overseeing their adherence by teams
Experience synthetizing project activities, outcomes and learning into compelling reports
Experience developing, reading and managing budgets; including a solid track record of analysing budget variances and rapidly spotting potential issues and solutions
Experience overseeing effective monitoring and evaluation frameworks, with a strong understanding of linear logframe and how to deliver and monitor results against those
Experience leading on large monitoring and evaluation exercises (e.g. household surveys, endline evaluations), including the management of external consultants
Excellent record of writing including briefs and project report compilation
Excellent coordination and prioritisation skills
Excellent command of basic computer software routinely used for project management (especially Excel) and ability to adapt to new simple software and collaboration platforms
Ability to build open and collaborative team environment, and strong communication skills and understanding of how to navigate upwards and side-ways relationships towards achieving the programme’s and organisation’s goals
Ability to build strong relationships with a variety of external stakeholders
