Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, August 08, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About Us
SEMA in partnership with Stromme Foundation (SF) is implementing the Enhanced Livelihoods through Commercial Agricultural Production (ELCAP) Project in Singida region Tanzania. The project overall goal is to sustainably improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, their households and other value-chain stakeholders through enhanced income generation, novel biochar formulation value chains, market linkages, private sector partnerships and job creation.
SEMA is one of SF's implementing partners in Tanzania. SEMA has built relationships and trust with the local communities and with government officials needed to sustainably implement programmes. They have experience with building CMSGs and therefore have the capacity to quickly adapt the model to target smallholder farmers through SPGs.

Title: Agricultural Officer -ELCAP project
Employment type: Full time
Location: Singida Region, Tanzania
DURATION: 1 year, renewable based on performance and availability of funds

Job Summary:
The Agricultural Officer- ELCAP will implement all aspects of the ELCAP program in Singida Region, Tanzania. She/he will be required to apply a wide variety of livelihood development tools and approaches to catalyse innovative services and facilitate linkages between market actors in the assigned programme area. The Agricultural Officer will work directly with Program Manager at SEMA and collaborate with the Agribusiness Specialist who will provide technical guidance and work objectives.
The Agricultural Officer- ELCAP has the overall responsibility for the support in development, coordination, monitoring, promotion, and growth of ELCAP’s livelihoods activities (these include but not limited to the following: Community Managed Saving Groups, Gender and Disability inclusion, Innovation and adoption of new technologies, Green Economy Practices, Food Security, Life skills training, linking commercial villages to market actors, BDS providers and other Credit plus activities, in Tanzania.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Planning, developing and implementation of ELCAP activities.
• Jointly with the relevant staff to ensure timely and quality completion of all ECLAP agriculture activities including procurement and distribution of inputs.
• In liaison with other project staff, develop an effective and coherent plan for the Agricultural components of ELCAP
• To build the capacity of the local communities to manage their agricultural resources Sustainably
• To develop mutually beneficial partnerships with relevant government departments, NGOs and other institutions involved in agricultural development work in the project area.
• Establish demonstrations and learning plots on CSA practices for adoption by small holder farmers.
• Identify value-addition opportunities that strengthen economic opportunities, especially for young women and rural youth, in the agriculture sectors as identified by local and national government as well as independent market studies and needs assessments.
• Support SEMA to facilitate participation of small holder farmers in nutrition seminars to enhance behavioural change.
• Participate in the Organization resource mobilization and preparation of the SEMA’s annual reports and proposal.

Documentation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
• Ensure that all ELCAP interventions are based on the Rights based approach.
• Ensure qualitative and quantitative growth of the ELCAP Project.

Collaboration/Networking
• Establish and maintain good coordination and working relationships with district leaders and local government departments.
• Participate in the planning of learning events, exhibits, workshops that bring private and public sector entities together to collectively review and discuss technology developments and innovation.

Accountability to Beneficiaries
Support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to direct program participants, engaging them as equal partners in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of our field activities.

Qualification and Experience.
The ideal candidate for the Agricultural Officer post must hold a degree or its equivalent in Agriculture, agribusiness, development studies, business field, or any other related field.

Experience:
• She/he must have a minimum 3-5 years of relevant work experience.
• Prior experience in planning and facilitating trainings.
• Prior experience coaching or supervising others.
• Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Prior experience working with and or saving groups. Familiarity with life skills and/or financial literacy skills is preferable.
• Strong organizational and planning skills, including the ability to monitor progress of program implementation.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously and take initiative.
• Prior success working closely and building relationships with diverse groups of people.
• Desire and ability to spend a quarter or more time traveling and providing direct support to smaller farmers
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office and Outlook.
• Fluency in the local language.
• English fluency.
• Experience with market facilitation, supporting systemic change and promoting supporting services indirectly is preferred, knowledge and experience in business financing for MSME’s.
• Strong writing, communication, organization, prioritization and negotiating skills.
• Excellent (English) verbal and written communication skills with proven financial management skills.
• Must have a minimum of three years documented working experience in training savings and credit groups, business development skills, food security or related fields.
• Have a dynamic personality with a sense of initiative, good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Relevant personal experience with the green economy programming promoting youth green entrepreneurs, digital financing, and working commercial villages.
• Experience working with poor communities on development matters, environment management and gender change, disability inclusion, anti-corruption, advocacy, governance, gender equality and children rights is added advantage.
• Good report writing and presentation skills.

Competencies:
• Ability to think strategically, work creatively, effectively and in an innovative manner.
• Good interpersonal, communication and proposal; writing skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
All suitably qualified and interested applicants who meet the requirements should submit their applications direct to sema.recruitment@gmail.com  which must include at least 3 reference contacts including your most recent/previous employer), and daytime contact number to 0757035597, calls accepted during work hours.
GENERAL MANAGER
SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT ACTION
P.O. BOX 365,
SINGIDA, TANZANIA.
Deadline for receiving application is 10/08/2021, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

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