The “Project „Climate-resilient Agriculture and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya” is a new project starting its operation in March 2026.

The project supports rural communities as well as local public, private and civil society stakeholders in their efforts to increase the resilience of the rural population regarding climate and socio-economic challenges. Sustainable and productive management of natural resources and climate resilient income generation from livestock, agriculture and fisheries are main intervention areas. While for Turkana and Marsabit there will be a o the focus will be on the better management of the Lake Baringo catchment area. The project will be implemented in the counties of Turkana, Marsabit and Baringo.

To make the project a success GIZ is looking for a highly motivated team to support the various interventions.

Responsibilities

In particular the position holder will work with county officials and target group representatives as well as other key decision makers in Baringo to create an enabling policy environment in the areas outlined herein:

• Support the CLAP AV to set up project structures, establish networks and trustworthy working relations with partners from local government, civil society, private sector and other development partners present in Baringo County.
  

• Contribute to the conceptionalization of the CLAP project.
  

• Oversee planning and implementation of the project activities under the assigned project outputs, with a view to create synergies within the project in and beyond Baringo.
  

• Initiate, and guide inclusive policy processes with local governments, target group representatives, private sector and other relevant stakeholders in the development space.
  

• Initiate and facilitate capacity building measures with a focus on local government players but also local partners (e.g. workshops and/or trainings, capacity building measures for government
  stakeholders, local partners or multipliers, stakeholder workshops)

• Elaborate work packages (incl. administrative and financial requirements) which can be taken over by consultants or local partners (e.g in form of Local Subsidies) and oversee and monitor the implementation and impact of the same
  

• Initiate and perform administrative task as per GIZ rules and regulation and as required for the implementation of the assigned task (e.g. procurement of goods and services, compliance with GIZ security standards).
  

• Support monitoring and evaluation of project activities, document impact, elaborate knowledge and communication products and contribute to visibility of the project
  

• Contribute to the mainstreaming of cross-cutting and overarching issues into project planning and implementation and Cluster development, e.g. gender and youth, digital transformation.
  

Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description as required by the AV of the project or the Cluster coordinator Agriculture and Rural Development and contribute to the overall portfolio development of the Cluster

Qualifications & Specialist Knowledge

• Relevant Master’s Degree in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management or a related technical
  field of work with a proven link to policy advice

• Minimum of 10 years professional working experiences in the field of agriculture/ natural resource management with a track record on policy advice and management of participatory policy processes and a minimum of 3 year working experiences in a duty station outside Nairobi, preferably in the Kenya’s ASAL areas.
  

• Proven working experience with an international development organization and/ or an international NGO.
  

• Strong managerial expertise with strong capacity to liase and interact with high and medium
  level local stakeholders both from government, civil society and private sector.

• Proven experience in facilitation and moderating inclusive and result-oriented stakeholder
  process in the area of sustainable management and knowledge on conflict mediation.

• Excellent analytical skills, able to do thorough research of any given issue and able to package the results for various stakeholder groups.
  

• Strong communication and negotiation skills particularly in complex and political settings
  

• Confident team player with strong interpersonal skills, high self-determination and ability to acquire new knowledge independently.
  

• Fluency in spoken and written English and Swahili with ability to produce high-standard documents (English) as well as very good working knowledge of ICT and computer applications (e.g. MS Office, MS Teams). Local languages are an added advantage-
  

Applicants from Baringo and/or women with a fully matching profile will be given specific consideration