About this role
The Project Manager/Team Leader (Contingent upon confirmation of funding)
Purpose of the Role:
The Project Manager/Team Leader will provide overall technical leadership for the project, ensuring integrated delivery across crop, livestock, beneficial insect, sustainable land management, market linkage, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and farmer institutional development interventions. The role will coordinate technical planning, quality assurance, government engagement, and field-level technical backstopping.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and implementation of climate-smart agriculture interventions across assigned refugee settlements and host communities.
- Coordinate technical specialists and field teams to ensure integrated delivery across all selected value chains.
- Ensure that Farmer Field School and Farmer Institutional Development approaches are applied consistently and effectively.
- Support development of workplans, technical training packages, demonstration plot plans, input distribution plans, and field supervision schedules.
- Provide technical oversight for farmer group formation, strengthening, cooperative development, and market-readiness.
- Ensure integration of cross-cutting issues, including gender, youth inclusion, disability inclusion, nutrition, environmental safeguards, conflict sensitivity, and accountability.
- Represent the project in technical coordination meetings with all stakeholders like local government, settlement leadership, private sector actors.
- Support preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc technical reports.
- Lead technical reflection, adaptive management, documentation of lessons, and preparation for joint supervision missions.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
- Master’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, Rural Development, Agribusiness, Natural Resource Management, or a related field.
- At least 8–10 years of progressive experience in agricultural livelihoods, climate-smart agriculture, value chain development, or refugee/host community programming.
- Demonstrated experience working in refugee settlements or refugee-hosting districts in Uganda.
- Strong experience with farmer group approaches, Farmer Field Schools, cooperative development, input systems, market linkages, and climate-resilient production.
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary technical teams.
- Prior engagement with government-led or World Bank-funded agricultural projects is an added advantage.
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