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Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Provide overall leadership and coordination of all project activities and partners in the assigned settlement, ensuring alignment with the Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project objectives.
• Develop detailed work plans, budgets and implementation schedules in line with project guidelines.
• Ensure timely delivery of inputs through the e-voucher system and oversee coordination with agro dealers, beneficiaries and settlement structures.
• Supervise all technical officers and Community Based Facilitators to ensure high quality delivery across crop, livestock, entomology, Sustainable Land Management, nutrition and market systems activities.
• Lead establishment and functioning of Farmer Field Schools and Farmer Institutional Development processes.
• Ensure implementation of climate smart agriculture, livestock, beneficial insect value chains and sustainable land management practices in line with technical standards.
• Coordinate land access arrangements, block farming processes and dialogue with landowners, host communities and settlement leadership.
• Ensure all project activities comply with environmental and social safeguard requirements including Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs), Gender Based Violence mitigation, grievance redress, child protection and conflict sensitivity.
• Oversee development of a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) plan, ensure use of approved data collection tools, and maintain an updated digital beneficiary database.
• Ensure timely submission of monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual technical and financial reports to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries and district authorities.
• Organise and lead joint supervision missions with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, the Office of the Prime Minister, District Local Governments and other stakeholders.
• Support documentation of lessons learned success stories and field innovations for replication and scale up.
• Ensure accurate financial management and compliance with World Bank procedures in coordination with the Accountant.
• Facilitate coordination with other partners operating in the settlements to ensure harmonisation, avoid duplication and maximise impact.
• Lead sustainability planning and ensure transfer of responsibilities to community structures, district authorities and private sector actors.