BACKGROUND
Farm Africa vision is a prosperous rural Africa. We are a specialist development NGO working with smallholder farmers, forest communities, local government and private sectors across East Africa for the last 30 years. With community engagement underpinning our approach, we design and implement sustainable solution to rural poverty based on evidence and best practices. In 2015 we reached approximately 1.8 million pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, farmers and forest dwellers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Farm Africa has worked in Ethiopia for over 28 years, throughout Oromia, SNNPR, Benishangul, Tigray and Afar regions. With funding from a range of institutional donors and foundations including DFID, EU, Irish Aid, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Comic Relief, Barr Foundation, and Ashden Charitable Trust, we have implemented a large portfolio of projects primarily focusing on three areas: agriculture (crop and livestock production), natural resource management, and market engagement. We implement projects directly with communities and these three approaches are further enhanced with integration of cross cutting issues such as climate change, gender and capacity building.
With almost 100 staffs in Ethiopia we align our work closely with regional and local government, civil society and the private sector. In addition to directly implementing projects within our core thematic expertise, we build local civil society organizations (CSOs) both to enhance development impact at community level and increase accountability and professional project management.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
To provide support to the Chief of Party in managing programme implementation by Farm Africa other project partners.
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The PSO will be responsible to support the team in facilitating the implementation of the project by taking the lead in the preparation of reports, monitoring the progress and operations and budget, working with the finance team and implementing partner organisations in budget management and forecast, , and liaise with partner organisations for tracking progress and ensuring proper implementation. The PSO is expected to:
REPORTS TO: Chief of Party, BRACED/MAR-X
LOCATION: Addis Ababa, but with some in-country travel (to project areas of Afar, Somali and SNNPR)
DURATION: 10 months
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential
Education, qualifications & other knowledge
Experience
Skills & abilities
Values
Farm Africa seeks to employ those who believe, as we do, that farmers can and will play a key role in achieving long-term rural prosperity in Africa and who seek to deliver on those beliefs by: