JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT AGA KHAN FOUNDATION (TANZANIA)
Employment
Opportunity in Tanzania
Position
title: Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition Lead
Location:
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Position
dependent on funding approval
Job
summary:
The
Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition (AFN) Lead, will provide technical
support, strategic guidance and supervision for the design and implementation
of evidence-based sustainable agriculture activities to improve maternal,
infant, and young children nutrition (MIYCN), in four selected regions (Iringa,
Rukwa, Dodoma and Morogoro) of Tanzania for an expected USAID-funded four-year
Cooperative Agreement. The purpose of the project will be to improve
nutritional status of women of reproductive age, especially pregnant and
lactating women, adolescent girls, and children under five.
Reporting
to the Project Chief of Party with Economic Inclusion Manager of AKF as a
stakeholder, the Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition Lead is responsible
for leading a nutrition driven sustainable agriculture initiative within the
project aimed at promoting household consumption and income for the targeted
groups in the four selected regions. S/he will design, mainstream and utilise
existing initiatives, platforms, networks and establish new ones as needed with
focus on small holder farmer engage-ment, growth of entrepreneurs and demand
creation for consumption of nutritious foods by the local population. S/he is
responsible for ensuring quality, impact and cost effectiveness under this
component.
The AFN
Lead will supervise a small team working on design and delivery of all
agriculture related activities in the project. This component of the project
will require working on promoting home production and consumption of diverse,
safe, and nutritious foods year-round as well as promoting agriculture
livelihood to support households earn income and use it to purchase food items
to meet their nutrition requirement. The AFN Lead will work closely with the
lead for the other two components of the project who will focus on maternal,
child health, nutrition and WASH behaviors, and on capacity building of local
governments to coordinate multi-sector nutrition activities.
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.
Qualifications
and Experience Required
•
Ability to work effectively in a team, and in cross-cultural settings.
•
Minimum of Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture, horticul-ture, 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.
How to
Apply
Applicants
should submit a CV and cover letter by email to: recruit.akftz@akfea.org by
14th May, 2018. Include "Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition
Lead" in the subject line.
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