Location
Other Dar es Salaam District
Dar Es Salaam
Description
Duties and Responsibilities:- Develop and/or refine relevant nutrition-focused agriculture training and capacity building programs/modules, materials and tools to promote home production and processing of diverse, safe and nutritious food.
- Develop strategy and interventions for selected value chain development (e.g. horticulture, poultry and pulses) to enhance household income.
- Collaborate with the Social, Behavior Change and Communication (SBCC) Lead in developing an SBCC program to promote nutrition and health behaviors around food production, processing and consumption at household level to improve nutritional status of women of reproductive age, adolescent girls, and children under five.
- Strengthen the capacity of project staff, implementing partners, stakeholders and others in implementing the nutrition focused agriculture interventions in the project.
- Manage the development of evidence-based program standards, guidance, and tools that reflect global best practice in nutrition focused agriculture and promote widespread application and use of these standards.
- Provide overall strategic direction for nutrition-focused agriculture activities.
- Develop and manage the agriculture team work plans and budgets, ensuring consistency with the Project's strategic direction and priorities.
- Lead and manage the Agriculture, Food security and Nutrition team.
- Ensure timely, quality delivery on assigned activities, including management of budgets related to those activities.
- Contribute to and provide inputs to annual work plan, required project reports, baseline data, tools and indicators/tools for monitoring and evaluation and collection / sharing of lessons learned.
- In collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, identify key gaps, best practices, and promising new approaches for food production, home-based value addition, consumption and marketing
- Document lessons learned related, evaluate impact and modify SBCC approaches as needed.
- Ability to work effectively in a team, and in cross-cultural settings.
- Minimum of Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture, horticulture, agronomy, food production, nutrition or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in international nutrition/public health programming with emphasis on food security and community nutrition programs including MIYCN. At least 4 years’ experience in senior management or technical lead position.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the design and implementation of agriculture, food security and nutrition strategies, approaches and capacity building programs
- Demonstrated success in working with local government, NGOs and private sector
- Strong record of fostering new and effective partnerships including participation in technical advisory groups, international consultations, boards, etc.
- Ability to develop and apply M&E plans to determine program results and monitor impact.
- Demonstrated ability to manage project
- Ability to effectively lead and supervise a team
- Excellent written and oral proficiency in English, able to make strong oral presentations and produce high quality written reports.
- Experience of working in Tanzania will be preferred
- Knowledge of USAID and other donor policies, strategies, and program priorities preferred.
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