Overview
The Project Analyst – Capacity Development and Partnerships will provide analytical, coordination, and project management support for programme implementation, focusing on strengthening delivery, sustainability, and scale of interventions.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to annual and quarterly work planning, implementation schedules, and development of specific interventions.
- Support monitoring of programme activities and contribute to timely achievement of targets.
- Coordinate with on-ground partners, technical agencies, and SRLM teams.
- Support identification of appropriate local partners and assist in reviewing on-field activities.
- Facilitate communication with government counterparts and partners.
- Support preparation of meeting notes and action trackers.
- Coordinate with TSU experts and other programme team members.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation and strengthen partnerships.
- Support organisation of meetings, consultations, workshops, and events.
- Support maintenance of partnership records.
- Support design, adaptation, and rollout of training and capacity-building interventions.
- Support post-training handholding and application of skills.
- Support alignment of training modules with NSQF and relevant schemes.
- Support development and coordination of detailed intervention plans.
- Prepare and contribute to monthly updates, periodic progress reports, and analytical briefs.
- Support documentation of best practices, case studies, and lessons learned.
- Contribute to programme knowledge products and learning processes.
- Support review of risks, data management, and implementation challenges.
Required Experience
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in any development sector organizations, government, think tank/research organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in planning, coordinating, and implementing capacity development interventions.
- Experience working effectively with government-led programmes and systems.
- Demonstrated experience in multi-stakeholder engagement and partnership coordination.
- Experience in documentation and reporting.
- Experience working on agricultural or allied value chain development initiatives.
- Experience scaling or system-level capacity development efforts.
- Experience with gender-responsive, climate-resilient livelihoods, or women’s economic empowerment programmes.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Development Studies, Rural Management, Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, or related fields is required.
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
