Job Title: International Capacity Building Manager
Area: Iringa
Application Deadline: Jul 01, 2013
Job Description
The Program Support to private plantation forestry and value chains in Tanzania
– Panda miti kwa biashara aims at increasing rural income in the Southern
highlands area, thereby reducing poverty and inequality, through developing
sustainable plantation forestry, value addition including employment creation
in the entire production value chain from quality seeds to quality products in
markets. The Program will support sustainable land use planning, facilitate the
organising of tree growers into Tree Growers Associations (TGAs), and develop
the capacities of tree growers, SMEs and service providers (extension and
business services). The Program will accelerate tree growing, improve its
quality and strengthen the quality of wood processing. The experiences of the
Program’s innovative approaches will be processed into best practices to be
disseminated widely within the sector. The Program will also facilitate wider
development of the sector through facilitating dialogue between key
stakeholders.
The key beneficiaries of the Program are private tree growers and wood
processing SMEs in the Program area, especially members of already existing and
to be established Tree Growers’ Associations (TGAs). Inclusive and equal
participation in TGAs will be promoted, and the rights of vulnerable groups
will be strengthened through their proper involvement in the land use planning
processes, through supporting their employment in the value chain as well as
through promoting income generation in collaboration with relevant other
programs and NGOs. To ensure environmental sustainability, the Program will
integrate biodiversity conservation in land-use planning and improve
biodiversity management in plantation development.
Project Components:
Enabling environment
Human resources development
Land use planning
Support to tree growers associations
Support to income-generating activities (IGAs)
Tree growing incentives scheme
Duration:2 years (24 working months; first one year, then 4 months / year)
Post location:Iringa region, Tanzania
Key qualifications:
BSc in social science, sociology or equivalent
Experience in planning and management of training and technical advisory
programmes Experience and understanding of inclusive and participatory methods,
with a specific focus on women, poor and vulnerable people in the programme
Development of guidelines, manuals and extension materials, especially in
relation to rural production
Proven experience and knowledge in operationalizing the cross-cutting
objectives such as gender, equality and climate issues, including Human Rights
Based approaches (HRBA)
Experience in planning and executing training needs assessments
Main Functions:
Coordinate and supervise the capacity building activities (training,
development of guidelines and manuals, networking with training providers and
clients)
Ensure that inclusion and vulnerability issues are embedded in all training
activities, both in the selection of participants and as topics in relevant
trainings
Support the Programme Director, Training Expert and component teams (Task
teams) in all capacity building and training related matters
Support networking with training providers and clients
Monitor the implementation of capacity building and training processes
Application Instructions:
ORGUT is seeking a Capacity Building Manager for the program. Interested
candidates are welcome to send their CVs as soon as possible to cv@orgut.se marked
with the title of the position being applied for.
