Senior Participatory Integrated Planning Advisor (PIP)

Qualifications:

• BSc degree in relevant field e.g., Horticulture, Development Studies, Agricultural Extension, Community Development, Entrepreneurship, Agricultural or Applied Economics, or any equivalent and 5 years professional working experience in fields relevant and related to the scope of work described; Alternatively a MSc degree and 3 years of experience.
  
• Experience in working with the PIP approach in Uganda, and proven work experience in rural community development initiatives within (agricultural) development projects;
  
• Experience in working with farmer communities, facilitating workshops, empowering households, and applying various participatory approaches;
  
• Experience within the horticulture sector, with public and private sector engagement, and facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes with different stakeholder groups;
  
• A good networker with the ability to engage in the dynamic environment of business-, government-, civil society-, and academic worlds;
  
• Experience in project management, implementation, and reporting in projects funded by international donors, with a proven ability to produce high quality reports;
  
• Willingness to travel regularly to the project implementation region;
  
• Proven digital skills and abilities to use tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.
  

• Develop and/or review and avail the field staff with the relevant training manuals and other context-specific knowledge products relevant to implementing the PIP approach;
  
• Provide technical training, backstopping and supervision to field staff in conducting awareness and capacity building on the PIP approach among the farmer households and communities;
  
• Develop roadmaps for rolling out the PIP Modules and scaling of the PIP approach in the project communities;
  
• Develop periodic activity workplans and budgets with the field staff and ensure their alignment to the other activity pathways and the overall project proposal;
  
• Actively engage with local development partners to strengthen partnership and collaboration on the PIP approach;
  
• Work with the project MEL team in establishing baselines, monitoring of project indicators targets against achievements and validation of data collected by PIP field staff;
  
• Systematically document experiences and lessons learned across regions, districts, watersheds and facilitate information sharing and learning with the rest of the project team.