Responsibilities
• Coordinate and ensure a robust facilitative support to Cluster leads and team
leaders to guarantee quality and timely implementation and achievement of the
set project outcomes. Support cluster/field based teams to ensure quality and
timeliness in the execution of project.
• In close collaboration with the CPM and Technical Leads supervise, manage and
oversee activities of cluster teams (including partners) to ensure that maximum
output is achieved.
• Provide leadership to teams on implementation and project operations
including enhancing compliance standards among Pos inareas such as developing
SOPs, different codes of practices, SO
Ps, registration of groups and
businesses. Support the CPM in ensuring full compliance to financial and other
internal controls in all project sites and at the country level.
• In close collaboration with the MLE coordinator, lead planning and
implementation processes of project interventions. With the MLE Coordinator and
consortium partner, identify trends and take relevant action to address related
gaps and or challenges.
• In collaboration with Dairy Production and Business Teams, ensure training of
farmers on production and productivity, business skills and financial literacy
including farm level business planning and economics.
• Support the project to mainstream gender. Youth and social capital activities
and ensuring there is increased women and youth participation in dairying
within the project area by facilitate training programs that enable farmers to
achieve sustainable development and to increase percentage household incomes
realized from dairy and other related enterprises.
• Working in close collaboration with the CPM, ensure EADD creates and
maintains good public relations with farmers, processors, like-minded
development agencies, relavant government entities and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with the MLE coordinator to ensure timely preparation and submission
of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports as per the project
reporting templates and deadlines.
Minimum Requirements
• Production, Agriculture Economics, Project Management or other related field
with seven (7) years hands-on experience (5 years a managerial level) in a mix
of dairy production, value chain competitiveness and project cycle management.
• Understanding of dairy value chain of Tanzania; experience setting up
producer/market groups.
• Cottage industries to process locally branded dairy products (such as cheese,
butter, fortified milk and yoghurt) for onward supply to niche and other
markets.).
• Hands-on experience managing agricultural related projects in consortium
arrangements, other requirements include understanding and experience hands-on
general project cycle, planning and budgeting.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement strategies aimed at providing
institutional capacity building to key partner institutions with a view to
build a more efficient, competitive, and sustainable dairy industry.
Mode of Application
Potential candidates are encouraged to apply by sending application letter
enclosed CV and Certificates/testimonials. Application should be channelled by
mail to:
Country Director
Heifer International Tanzania
East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD)
P.O.BOX 344
MBEYA
OR
Electronically
through: Benedict.Kayombo@heifer.org
All applications
should marked “Application for OM” on the envelope or as subject if sent
electronically. Remember, Heifer International is an equal employer and
recruitment is by merits. Deadline this application is 13th February,
2016-02-09
