With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Project Planning & Implementation
- Coordinate and support implementation of field-level activities across thematic areas including youth focused resilience activities, CSA, Good Agronomic Practices (GAP), Ecosystem restoration, Market System Development, financial inclusion.
- Support the development of detailed work plans and activity schedules aligned with project outputs.
- Liaise with Sub County technical teams, implementing partners, farmer organizations, and aggregators to ensure timely delivery of project interventions.
- Ensure project activities are adapted to the ASAL context, including seasonal calendars, weather patterns, drought cycles, and farmers mobility.
- Promote youth led agri-preneural opportunities suited for contexts such as Makueni.
- Monitor progress against targets and in liaison with the relevant County technical departments and the Project Coordinator adjust implementation strategies as needed.
- Support engagement with Baringo County Government to leverage resources for program sustainability, including on-ground advocacy for policies on climate-smart agriculture (CSA), inclusive procurement, and agriculture.
- Facilitate partnerships with private sector actors, insurance service providers, financial institutions, and government for capacity development in CSA, inputs, financial services, and market access.
- Support context-specific media communications on project activities and integrate messaging with other components for field outreach/farmer field days
Quality Assurance - M &E, Reporting and Documentation
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports for internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the development and use of M&E tools to track project indicators and outcomes.
- Collect, analyze, and report data on project performance, including success stories and lessons learned.
- Maintain accurate documentation of project activities, outputs, and results.
- Participate in periodic reviews and evaluations to assess project impact and inform future programming.
- Develop strategies for collecting reliable data in hard-to-reach or low-connectivity areas.
Advocacy, Engagement, Partnership and Networking
- Represent the project in local forums, technical working groups, and coordination meetings (County, Sub-County and Ward levels) as appropriate or as advised by the Project Coordinator.
- Enhance partnerships with government and private sector players, partners to leverage on technical capacity development for farmers, extension support, inputs, financial services and market access
- Advocate for policies that promote climate-smart agriculture, Agri-nutrition, market systems development, financial inclusion, and climate resilience.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement including government agencies, farmer service centres, private sector actors, and farmer-based organizations.
- Build and maintain strategic partnerships to enhance project sustainability and scalability.
- Promote linkages between smallholder farmers and service providers (e.g., input suppliers, financial institutions, digital platforms).
Capacity Building
- Take lead in project staff, farmers, market actors, aggregators capacities development through trainings and other information sharing avenues.
- Support the development of training materials and modules tailored to local contexts.
- Strengthen institutional capacity of farmer cooperatives, Farmer Service Centres (FSCs), and VSLAs/YSLAs.
- Promote adoption of digital tools and climate-smart technologies through targeted capacity building.
- Mentor field staff, community mobilisers, and extension officers to ensure quality delivery of extension services.
- Prioritize inclusion of youth and women in training and leadership roles, especially in VSLAs and YSLAs.
REQUIRED EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPEREINCE:
- Minimum of a Bachelor Degree in Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension or a closely related field from a recognized university
- minimum 3–5 years of experience in project implementation, preferably in CSA, livelihoods, or resilience programming.
- Strong understanding of Market led value chain development, Agricultural extension models.
- Experience working with youth led farmer organizations, cooperatives, private sector players and local institutions.
- Excellent communication, Training facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience with the donor regulations such as: WFP, KOICA will be an added advantage.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
