•Over 25 years strong experience in program management, project designing, budgeting, financial reporting along with proven monitoring and evaluation skills
•Established experience in managing and implementing projects in development sector with emphasis on food security, developing micro-entrepreneur-ships, enterprise development, agricultural value chains and doing advocacy, campaigns at national level.
•Being an economist, sound knowledge of economic and poverty indicators about food security, hunger, agricultural problems, income levels and related issues, climate change and its impact.
•Analytical and strategic planning and development skills with experience about critical thinking and strategy development.
•Proven experience in developing, implementing, and managing the humanitarian as well as the development projects.
•Trainer in Project Management, Report Writing, Poultry and Goat Keeping, Kitchen Gardening, Forestry, Agricultural value chains, small rural business entrepreneurships
•Strong capabilities to work independently, think innovatively, strategically and collaborate with team members
•Excellent interpersonal skills to work with people of diversified cultural backgrounds with ability to manage sensitive and complex relationships in an organization
•Strong networking abilities with coordination as member of various networks
•Capable of working on own initiative by managing complex workloads, and meet deadlines for the submission of reports and output
•Statistical analysis of large-scale data, and a keen communicator with strong analytical and organizational abilities.
•Ability to plan, organize and supervise the work of others while administering the projects pertaining to development sector. Proven record of drafting project reports for the case of articles, project evaluation reports (performance studies) at country and international level
•Excellent skills in capacity building and training of others
•Excellent written and oral skills
Researcher and Teacher
•Vast experience in community-led development through community empowerment by broad community engagement to identify shared issues and concerns to generate local solutions.
•Proven field level experience by applying community-led development approach focused on communities as a whole, rather than on specific programmes or activities.
•Practical experience in implementing an approach where communities had access to flexible funding that contributed to overall community well-being.
•Implemented Collaborative projects between NGOs with the Government for supporting community-led development by providing support, advice and funding, but the work was led by the community.
•Experience in developing community-led development policy framework at province level for irrigation.
•Delivered the development related programmes effectively and efficiently, working closely with stakeholders and consortium involved.
•Developed the research themes and programme. Oversee the commissioning of research within each of the themes.
•Developed strong networks of academics and organizations working in the development sector in the country.
•Supervised programme activities, also quality assurance of research and mechanisms for putting research into use.
•Represented the programme at relevant conferences and meetings.
•Supervised the delivery of key programme reports and work plans as well as a risk mitigation strategy.
•Traveled to the project sites and ensure value for money strategy and delivery of results.
•Liaised closely with donors and beneficiaries to ensure client satisfaction with the programme.
•Liaised with the implementers of the independent evaluation of the programme.
•Twenty years of experience in the rural development sector which includes significant experience of field based projects relating to irrigated agriculture in the country.
•Strong experience of multi-disciplinary working across the rural development sector.
•development of proposals for donors.