Overview
Provide overall leadership, coordination, and management of the Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project in assigned refugee settlement and host community areas. Ensure high quality delivery across various project components and alignment with Ministry requirements.
Tasks Summary
- Provide overall leadership and coordination of project activities and partners
- Develop detailed work plans, budgets, and implementation schedules
- Ensure timely delivery of inputs through the e-voucher system
- Supervise technical officers and Community Based Facilitators
- Lead establishment and functioning of Farmer Field Schools
- Ensure implementation of climate smart agriculture practices
- Coordinate land access arrangements
- Ensure compliance with environmental and social safeguards
- Oversee development of a MERL plan and beneficiary database
- Ensure timely submission of technical and financial reports
- Organise and lead joint supervision missions
- Support documentation of lessons learned
- Ensure accurate financial management and compliance with World Bank procedures
- Facilitate coordination with other partners
- Lead sustainability planning
Experience Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of experience managing agricultural, livelihoods, climate smart agriculture or market systems projects
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-component, multi-value chain programmes, preferably in refugee hosting districts or humanitarian settings
- Experience supervising multidisciplinary technical teams and community-based field staff
- Proven experience in project planning, budgeting, financial oversight and results-based management
- Experience coordinating with government institutions
- Experience managing environmental and social safeguards
- Experience with digital data collection tools, MERL systems and indicator tracking
Qualification Requirements
- Degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Rural Development, Natural Resource Management or related field
- Postgraduate training in project management, climate smart agriculture, market systems development or a related discipline is an added advantage