Conservation Agriculture Project Manager (Howard G. Buffett Foundation)New!

• Providing leadership, direction, and management of project activities, resources, equipment, and information.
• Ensuring that all articles of the project Memorandum of Understanding between HGBF and MINAGRI are adhered to.
• Serving as the link between MINAGRI and project beneficiaries, local leaders, extension agents in the project areas.
• Leading the development and updating of project activities plans and ensure that developed action plans and budget allocations are aligned to project objectives.
• Preparing activities budget and ensuring compliance with the grant MoU between HGBF and MINAGRI.
• Coordinating and providing direction to partner organizations and institutions implementing conservation agriculture and regenerative agriculture in the country.
• Leading the harmonization of CA messaging within the extension services in the country.
• Ensuring that the CA messaging and good agriculture practices delivered by different partner institutions and organizations is consistent to avoid conflicting messages being given to farmers.
• Setting timeframes for specific project activities, managing the implementation schedule, and organizing logistics needed for field activities.
• Ensuring inclusion of CA in district action plans and extension services to ensure its mainstreaming in the national extension systems.
• Supervising the Conservation Agriculture Field Specialists, FoBaSi focal persons, and other project staff, set their performance targets, and guidance them to achieve expected project deliverables.
• Overseeing the Monitoring and Evaluation of project activities and tracking progress against the project’s key indicators.
• Preparing regular and consolidated progress reports and documenting lessons learned to inform adaptation and scale-up of field activities.
• Representing the project in stakeholder meetings, policy dialogues, and learning events.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• At least 12 months of relevant professional experience.

Skills & Competencies:

• Project leadership and management.
• Project planning and implementation.
• Budget preparation and grant compliance.
• Stakeholder and partner coordination.
• Conservation and regenerative agriculture.
• Extension services and agricultural messaging.
• Staff supervision and performance management.
• Monitoring, evaluation, and progress reporting.
• Field activity logistics.
• Communication and representation.