DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Responsibilities:
Project Management
• Manage implementation of the project as per approved proposal, workplan and budget
• Delivery of leadership, gender mainstreaming, sexual harassment/ gender-based violence mitigation capacity building to key partners and workers.
• Participate in Project Steering Group Meetings.
Producer Organizational Strengthening
• Identify producer needs and develop relevant support plan with reference to FTA’s Strategy, Fairtrade Standards, Project plan and Donor requirements
• Ensure project right holders’ awareness of opportunities and risks and implementation of relevant exploration or mitigation strategies
• Provide support to target Sugar and Tea farms aimed at enhancing visibility of fairtrade certification benefits/impact of the project towards enhancing market opportunities for target Fairtrade Producers.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
• Closely monitor implementation progress of the project and propose strategies for continuous improvement.
• In close collaboration with the MEL department, lead project monitoring, evaluation and learning processes.
• Submit high quality narrative and financial reports in accordance with FTA, Fairtrade Norway project requirements (monthly, quarterly and annually)
• Establish and maintain an accessible database of all project documents.
Partnership, Advocacy & Resource Mobilization
• Initiate and maintain strategic relationships with FTA Stakeholders and partners to amplify projects delivery and results. In collaboration with FTAs Communications lead, deploy a communications strategy, supporting project visibility including events, media visits and features.
• In collaboration with FTA’s Gender lead, proactively identify policy gaps in thematic area and respective interventions to address these.
• Support the development of project concept notes and proposals to scale up the initiative
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in gender, Rural development, Sociology, Community Development, or any other related relevant area of study.
Experience and Knowledge
• At least 3- 5 years’ experience working with cooperatives and rural farmers.
• Implementing Cooperative strengthening initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience in gender approaches and tools for stakeholder engagement and capacity building.
• Advocacy work on women empowerment and/or social inclusion issues.
• Experience in the Small-Scale cooperatives sector will be desirable Skills.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English and spoken Chichewa
• Experience in report writing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals across multi-functional and cultural disciplines. Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage multiple work-streams with various partners at any one time.
Other Specialist Training or Certifications
• Project and financial Management •
Training on gender and/or social inclusion and protection is desirable.
More Information
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