Description
Essential Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Rural Development, Livestock development, Pastoralism, Economics, Sociology, Geography or a related field relevant to agri-food systems transformation.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience managing complex, multistakeholder development projects in the agrifood sector—preferably in the Sahel region and in conflict sensitive contexts—with strong added value for candidates who have led multi-county project teams.
- 10+ years of demonstrated experience in landscape management, climate‑smart agriculture, natural resource management, and/or agroecology or regenerative agriculture.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in applying good governance principles and cross‑cutting approaches such as adaptive management, gender equality and social inclusion (GESI), and conflict‑sensitive project management.
- Experience leading through complexity, using evidence-based decision-making, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing to navigate systemic challenges and drive innovation.
Responsibilities
Project Leadership and technical oversight of project implementation
- Provide overall direction of the component, ensuring full compliance with the IFDC contract, and overseeing all component reporting, as well compliance and accountability towards all SNV policies and procedures.
- Lead overall planning, implementation and management of the INTEGRATE component across four countries, ensuring effective thought leadership of the component team, effective management of financial resources; review and approval of component budgets and monitoring of expenditures; supervising the execution of field operations.
- Establish structures and procedures for the administration, governance, financial management, human resources, and knowledge management of the component.
Team Leadership and staff development
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- Lead, coach and mentor the diverse component team of eight professionals, promoting a collaborative learning culture with the aim to deliver goals and objectives.
- Lead performance and staff development to ensure the right skillsets and mindsets across the team to support and enable empowerment.
- Ensure that staff wellbeing and safety according to SNV code of conduct and related policies.
Stakeholder engagement and partnership management
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- Serve as the key representative of SNV and participate in the IFDC project management team, fostering a transparent and pro-active relationship through regular updates and consultations.
- Coordinate and collaborate closely with local implementing partners, government institutions, civil society, the private sector, and consortium partners including IFDC and knowledge partners to ensure strong collaboration and alignment.
- Proactively build linkages with other initiatives to maximise synergy and scale development outcomes, contributing to SNV’s Agri‑Food System strategic framework.
- Oversee partner procurement and grant agreements, ensures effective monitoring and evaluation, and maintains quality control of all deliverables within agreed timelines.