Project Officer- Livelihoods and Resilience

Job Description:

Project Planning & Implementation

• Coordinate and support implementation of field-level activities across thematic areas including youth focused resilience activities, CSA, Good Agronomic Practices (GAP), Ecosystem restoration, Market System Development, financial inclusion.
• Support the development of detailed work plans and activity schedules aligned with project outputs.
• Liaise with Sub County technical teams, implementing partners, farmer organizations, and aggregators to ensure timely delivery of project interventions.
• Ensure project activities are adapted to the ASAL context, including seasonal calendars, weather patterns, drought cycles, and farmers mobility.
• Promote youth led agri-preneural opportunities suited for contexts such as Makueni.
• Monitor progress against targets and in liaison with the relevant County technical departments and the Project Coordinator adjust implementation strategies as needed.
• Support engagement with Baringo County Government to leverage resources for program sustainability, including on-ground advocacy for policies on climate-smart agriculture (CSA), inclusive procurement, and agriculture.
• Facilitate partnerships with private sector actors, insurance service providers, financial institutions, and government for capacity development in CSA, inputs, financial services, and market access.
• Support context-specific media communications on project activities and integrate messaging with other components for field outreach/farmer field days

Quality Assurance - M &E, Reporting and Documentation

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the development and use of M&E tools to track project indicators and outcomes.
• Collect, analyze, and report data on project performance, including success stories and lessons learned.
• Maintain accurate documentation of project activities, outputs, and results.
• Participate in periodic reviews and evaluations to assess project impact and inform future programming.
• Develop strategies for collecting reliable data in hard-to-reach or low-connectivity areas.

Advocacy, Engagement, Partnership and Networking

• Represent the project in local forums, technical working groups, and coordination meetings (County, Sub-County and Ward levels) as appropriate or as advised by the Project Coordinator.
• Enhance partnerships with government and private sector players, partners to leverage on technical capacity development for farmers, extension support, inputs, financial services and market access
• Advocate for policies that promote climate-smart agriculture, Agri-nutrition, market systems development, financial inclusion, and climate resilience.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement including government agencies, farmer service centres,  private sector actors, and farmer-based organizations.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships to enhance project sustainability and scalability.
• Promote linkages between smallholder farmers and service providers (e.g., input suppliers, financial institutions, digital platforms).

Capacity Building

• Take lead in project staff, farmers, market actors, aggregators capacities development through trainings and other information sharing avenues.
• Support the development of training materials and modules tailored to local contexts.
• Strengthen institutional capacity of farmer cooperatives, Farmer Service Centres (FSCs), and VSLAs/YSLAs.
• Promote adoption of digital tools and climate-smart technologies through targeted capacity building.
• Mentor field staff, community mobilisers, and extension officers to ensure quality delivery of extension services.
• Prioritize inclusion of youth and women in training and leadership roles, especially in VSLAs and YSLAs.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPEREINCE:

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree in Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension or a closely related field from a recognized university
• minimum 3–5 years of experience in project implementation, preferably in CSA, livelihoods, or resilience programming.
• Strong understanding of Market led value chain development, Agricultural extension models.
• Experience working with youth led farmer organizations, cooperatives, private sector players and local institutions.
• Excellent communication, Training facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with the donor regulations such as: WFP, KOICA will be an added advantage.