Project description

The Agriculture Innovation Project II (AIP II) aims to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes and climate resilience in Upper Egypt by promoting market-oriented agricultural innovations. The project focuses on medicinal and aromatic plants and selected staple crops through Living Labs, Farmer Field Schools and interactive demonstration plots. Key targets include training 200 rural service providers and community leaders, supporting 6,600 smallholder farmers through 55 demonstration plots, and promoting the replication of climate-smart agriculture, good agricultural and post-harvest practices through knowledge-sharing activities and learning materials.

Job description

The Team Leader will provide overall technical leadership, planning, delivery oversight, quality assurance and coordination for all three work packages, in close cooperation with the donor and national partners. Main Responsibilities

• Lead the design, planning, implementation and quality assurance of the CSA, GAP, interactive demonstration plot and farmer capacity-building activities.
• Oversee crop calendars, field visits, training and technical support and ensure coherent delivery across all work packages.
• Manage and guide the national senior expert and short-term expert pools, including assignment planning and technical backstopping.
• Coordinate closely with donor and other relevant stakeholders; ensure complementarity with other project activities.
• Oversee results-based monitoring, risk management, gender-sensitive delivery, reporting and financial planning and use of funds.

Support strategy adaptation, project evaluations and potential follow-on work.

Qualifications

o Master’s degree in agriculture, project management and/or business administration.

o English at C1 level o At least 10 years of professional experience in the agriculture sector, including training and project management. 

o At least 3 years of professional experience in climate-smart agriculture in devel-opment cooperation. o At least 5 years of management experience with disciplinary responsibility for staff.

o At least 5 years of professional experience in developing countries of the Global South outside the country/region of assignment.

o At least 2 years of professional experience in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. 

o At least 8 years of experience in development cooperation projects.

o Strong teamwork, initiative, communication, intercultural competence and part-ner-oriented working methods; availability for field travel as required.

Contact person

  Girolama Orlando