Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, November 22 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Project information
SNV is currently in the process of developing a 5-year Livestock project. The project aims to improve resilient livelihoods for smallholder livestock farmers in Busoga, Rwenzori, Greater Ankole and Kigezi regions. The project targets 75,000 smallholder farms (SHF) in these four subregions. The project will adopt a farming systems approach integrating livestock and crops, having livestock (dairy cattle, sheep, and goats) as an intervention entry point.

To address the above the project will apply the Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) approach. The PIP approach is an innovative way of transforming small-scale subsistence farm households into more productive and sustainable farms. Changing farmers’ mindsets by motivating them to transform their reality through conscious collective action is at the core of the PIP approach. The project will also support the ongoing school milk program and be supportive to policy actors to developed and implement inclusive and responsive livestock policies and practices.

Job Purpose
The MEL Advisor is the technical expert who leads in the MEL unit activities. He/she supports the project management to create an enabling environment for the development and implementation of the project to meet its objectives. The MEL Advisor ensures learning, monitors progress, and provides quality project management support during project implementation. Ensures technical support to partners, smallholder farmers and other relevant project staff on data collection and processing and offers service to promote adoption at scale.

Job Description
Responsibilities
Knowledge Development
• Contribute to internal and external learning and knowledge development, ensures lessons learned are harvested, documented, communicated.
• Be the national focal point of an expertise network.
• Initiate and coordinate the review process and evaluation of advisory services to collect lessons learned in farming systems including livestock and crop production, CSA, and draft power.
• Propose corrective measures and ensure identification of follow up assignments.
• Participate in knowledge development networks.

Project and process development
• Identify and propose technical process improvements to the project team, partners, and smallholder farmers.
• Act on improvement areas suggested by stakeholders or informed by the project’s learning agenda and lessons learned.
• Ensure on ground adaptive management where farming systems and CSA lessons learned are adopted in daily practice by all stakeholders.

People Management
• Guide colleagues and coaches associated partners/smallholder farmers, and other external stakeholders on quality within the farming system context of assignments.
• Be the MEL system technical expert.
• Coordinate all the five project regions in MEL activities.
• Apply process improvements in projects and coach colleagues, partners and smallholders on quality farming systems, CSA technologies and practices important for improved resilience to climate and price related shocks and stresses.

Positioning
• Identify and analyse MEL development opportunities and threats and ensures relevant colleagues are informed.
• Participate in Strategic positioning meetings and acts as a knowledgeable face of the SNV organisation to the client. Analyses, understands, and develops (local) networks with relevant stakeholders, identifies new clients, farmer groups and smallholders.
• Ensure that the project contributes to the global learning agenda in the Agri-food sector.

Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience
• A master’s degree in agriculture with specialisation in MEL, data collection, processing and analysis of data collected.
• A minimum of 8 or more years of relevant work experience in programmes in areas of MEL.
• Ability and demonstrated experience of designing and appraising inclusive business cases.
• Ability to meet deadlines and to work within a team.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Computer literate, proficient with MS Word, Excel, and data collection applications.
• A self-motivated achiever with excellent leadership, teamwork, coaching.
• Communication, analytical and organisational skills.
• Strong work ethics, high level of confidentiality and Integrity.

Additional requirements:
• Leadership: The ability to provide direction and guidance to a group of people and to encourage cooperation between team members to attain an objective.
• Planning and organising: The ability to determine goals and priorities and to assess the actions, time and resources needed to achieve those goals.
• Persuasiveness: The ambition to win over other people for one’s views and ideas and to generate support.
• Conceptual thinking: Having and gaining insight into situations, problems, and processes. Deconstructing problems and systematically investigating the various components. Having a complete picture of the context and overview of the whole problem.
• Result Orientation: The ability to take direct action to attain or exceed objectives.
• Focus on quality: Setting high quality standards and striving for continuous improvement and quality assurance.
• Flexibility: Readiness to travel to the different project locations.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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