Closing: Apr 5, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: Mar 12, 2024 (2 months ago)
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The Project Associate reports to the Projects Officer at the national and regional levels and works closely with the Project Manager at the country level. The Project Associate works closely with the Project Officers, Senior Project Officers, Project innovation theme advisors, and the quality function teams. The Project Associate will coordinate people and processes to ensure that the Project is delivered on time and produce the desired results. S/he will also actively participate in business development activities.
Requirements
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher – in relevant field e.g. Agriculture, Public Policy, Development Studies, Project Management, Strategic Management, etc.
- At least one (1) to three (3) years experience in the region.
- An understanding of the policy environment, issues and stakeholders in the agriculture and/or agribusiness sector in East and Central Africa.
- Experience of leading and managing small teams.
- Knowledge of strategic, human resource, financial and quality management.
- Adaptability and stress management skills.
- Time management, organizational skills and problem solving skills.
- Analytical thinker with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Multi skilled with multi-tasking capabilities.
- Strong team-player with a high level of self-motivation and ability to set and meet goals;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Experience in program administration, operating procedures, oversight and monitoring.
- Fluent in spoken and written English, other language skills proficiency desirable.
Responsibilities
The Project Associate reports to the Projects Officer at the national and regional levels and works closely with the Project Manager at the country level. The Project Associate works closely with the Project Officers, Senior Project Officers, Project innovation theme advisors, and the quality function teams. The Project Associate will coordinate people and processes to ensure that the Project is delivered on time and produce the desired results. S/he will also actively participate in business development activities.
Requirements
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher – in relevant field e.g. Agriculture, Public Policy, Development Studies, Project Management, Strategic Management, etc.
- At least one (1) to three (3) years experience in the region.
- An understanding of the policy environment, issues and stakeholders in the agriculture and/or agribusiness sector in East and Central Africa.
- Experience of leading and managing small teams.
- Knowledge of strategic, human resource, financial and quality management.
- Adaptability and stress management skills.
- Time management, organizational skills and problem solving skills.
- Analytical thinker with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Multi skilled with multi-tasking capabilities.
- Strong team-player with a high level of self-motivation and ability to set and meet goals;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Experience in program administration, operating procedures, oversight and monitoring.
- Fluent in spoken and written English, other language skills proficiency desirable.
- Participate in organizing extension activities which include field days, agricultural shows field demonstrations, farm visits etc.
- Support training curriculum delivery and review.
- Analyse data for the purpose of improving the project’s training programme.
- Participate in collaborative research activities.
- Support the promotion of functional collaboration with local authorities, as well as with project/ development stakeholders to strengthen the commodity value chains across projects.
- Work closely with farmers’ cooperatives and associations to identify opportunities, risks and approaches for the project.
- Support in the establishment and running of project hardware and technologies.
- Support the operationalization of the implementation strategies as defined by the project.
- Provide technical advice and support.
- Disseminate and implement project-technologies related.
- Support preparation of monthly project reports, budgets, and work plans in line with Solidaridad’s planning process and schedules in a timely manner for submission.
- Capturing, maintaining and storing project data and supporting data analysis.
- Ensure key activities of programme stakeholders are carried out to track financial and programmatic implementation.
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