KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
- Planning and implementation lead his/her team in identifying producer needs, planning, budgeting and implementation of field level activities and producer services
- Provide administrative and logistical support to his/her team
- Coordinate and support field staff access to logistical requirements for activity implementation
- Prepare draft annual work plans in line with programme or core objectives for approval
- Develop, and or update field activity implementation guidelines based on learnings from implementation and producer needs
- Reporting and Communication
- Lead in preparation of all field level reports on progress of implementation
- Effectively respond to all queries concerning field implementation Ensure effective two-way communication between producer organizations and field staff
- Facilitate joint planning and review with producer organizations and ensure timely gathering and distribution of information to producer organizations
- Regularly make follow ups and collect feedback/information from producer organizations for monitoring & evaluation of services received to inform improvements
- Prepare summaries for the programmer’s annual plans, reports and articles
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Closely monitor programme performance (Financial and programmatic) and propose strategies for continuous improvement
- In close collaboration with the MEL team, support on all monitoring and evaluation related activities
- Monitor capacity building efforts
- Submit high quality narrative and financial reports in accordance with project and organizational requirements (monthly, quarterly, bi-annually and annually)
- Provide information and data on a timely basis to the Fairtrade Africa MEL function including but not limited to quantitative and qualitative reporting
- Establish and maintain a database of all programme documents and reports area of operation
- Stakeholder and Partners’ Support
- Coordinate field trips for partners and other stakeholders
- In liaison with partnership coordinator increase partnership and networking between producers, government officials, civil society and the private sector
- Accounting Support and Resource Mobilization
- Effectively track field level income and expenses
- Prepare and/or approve budgets for his/her team members’ field activities and workshops
- Prepare monthly and quarterly budget report on field level activities
- Support with resource mobilization for concerned programme
- Administrative Support
- Support provide logistical support to the organization for events and workshops
- Represent the FTA at meetings, events/forums, and conferences in and outside the country
- People management
- Works as a technical leader for the programme field team and coordinate team members´ work
- Performance management of direct reportees
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Graduate in Agriculture, Agribusiness management, Rural Development Studies, Business
- Administration, or Business Management or any other related disciplines.
- At least 3 years’ experience in Programme/Project development and Management
- Experience in team management, relationship building, and working with community groups / rural enterprises.
- Ability to develop, implement and assess performance metrics
- Proven record of boosting team performance and employee retention rates
- Knowledge or experience in sustainability standards such as Fairtrade will be desirable.
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Experience in report writing
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals across multi-functional and cultural
disciplines - Able to handle varied, demanding and complex tasks.
- Ability to work independently.
- Project Management training will be an added advantage
- Able to juggle competing priorities to meet tight deadlines.
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