Project Officer - FMNRNew!

• Oversee implementation of landscape restoration and climate resilient value chain activities.
• Build capacity of community stakeholders and partners on farmer managed natural regeneration.
• Ensure activities are implemented on time and within budget.
• Work with government extension agents and community volunteers to close technical capacity gaps.
• Prepare project updates for periodic review meetings.
• Build relationships with local government, NGOs, academia and the private sector.
• Facilitate integration with other resilience and livelihood interventions.
• Organise monthly field planning and stakeholder review meetings.
• Support monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning for the project.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Environmental Sciences or Forestry.
• Minimum of 3 years of field-based project management experience in natural resources, environment and food security with international NGOs or local government.
• Knowledge of farmer managed natural regeneration, savings for transformation, local value chain development and local level advocacy.
• Experience in programme design, assessments, monitoring and evaluation.
• Must be a practising Christian and an active member of the Church.

Skills & Competencies:

• Facilitation and community mobilisation.
• Knowledge of forest, environment, climate change, agriculture and agroforestry policy.
• Policy advocacy and work with local governments and indigenous people.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Conceptual and analytical skills with an evidence-based approach.
• High integrity, innovativeness and reliability.