Vacancy title:
Associate Program Officer

Jobs at:
AGRA

Deadline of this Job:
20th December 2018

Duty Station:
Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: 11th December 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About AGRA Founded in 2006, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyze Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the center of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming as a business that thrives. As the sector that employs the majority of Africa's people, nearly all of them small-scale farmers, AGRA recognizes that developing smallholder agriculture into a productive, efficient, and sustainable system is essential to ensuring food security, lifting millions out of poverty, and driving equitable growth across the continent.

JOB DETAILS:
Associate Program Officer, Tanzania: Job Reference APOITZ/11/2018
AGRAIs rolling out a new 5-year strategy to catalyze and sustain an Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa to increase incomes and improve food security for 30 million farmers. Under this strategy, AGRA will deliver through an approach that simultaneously catalyzes change at farmer level, strengthens input and output market systems and puts government at the center to enable and champion private-sector-led agricultural growth at national level Watch

To support this transformation from a country perspective, AGRA is seeking to recruit an experienced and exceptional individual to the role of Associate Program Officer, Tanzania.

The position is only open to Tanzania nationals and will be based in Arusha, Tanzania.

The Position
Reporting to the Country Manager, the role-holder will contribute to agricultural transformation by creating partnerships and managing grant making at local level.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with government at local and national level to design and implement agricultural transformation initiatives;
  
• Work with private sector at local level to upgrade agricultural value chains and expand market opportunities for smallholder farmers;
  
• Coordinate with other players to create synergies between AGRA funded programs and other agricultural initiatives;
  
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with small, medium and large agribusinesses in the geography;
  
• Assist the Country manager create road maps documenting the resources and constraints to agricultural transformation;
  
• Assist in the identification of opportunities for investments via competitive grants;
  
• Coordinate capacity building of grantees in data capturing, management and reporting,
  
• Work closely with the Program Officer to jointly design and implement strategies for disseminating improved crop varieties,
  
• Monitor, evaluate and supervise grantee activities;
  
• Provide regular periodic reports as may be required;
  
• Carry out administrative functions such as coordination of periodic audit, stakeholder forums etc.; and
  
• Documenting and knowledge-sharing of the success stones, best practices and lessons learnt.
  

Key Qualifications and Experience required:

• A Master's degree in Agriculture or related disciplines with deep knowledge in seed systems, market access or other relevant areas of the agriculture value chain,
  
• Experience in managing multinational initiatives in the private and/or public sector with a sound knowledge of, and experience in agricultural trade development at national, regional and/or international level.
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a team orientation and strong collaborative skills.
  
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in agri-business and development efforts in Africa and especially in Tanzania. .
  

An attractive remuneration package commensurate with the responsibilities of the position will be negotiated with the successful candidate,