Technical Coordinator – Livelihood And Market Development

About the Role

About the Role:

Reporting to the Program Manager - AIM, the role of Technical Coordinator, Livelihood & Market Development (TC- LMD) will be based in Nyanza District. This role will provide overall technical coordination and leadership to the AIM country team to ensure all livelihood and market development activities, including implementation of livelihoods, market development and market facilitation activities, are effectively delivered and on time.;This role will work closely with the relevant technical sector officers (TSOs), BI technical anchors and other internal and external technical experts to develop country and asset-specific training modules; train frontline staff on the newly developed training materials; finalize the detailed participant training rollout plans and provide hands on support to the cascading down of the training.;The TC-LMD will also play a critical role in identifying existing capacity challenges in effectively delivering the livelihood and market development related interventions under the AIM program and will be proactive about addressing them in an efficient and timely manner. The role will also support the operations team in budgeting, in ensuring quality procurement, asset distribution and asset management support. An ideal candidate for this role must have previous experience in implementing livelihoods or related programs.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the overall planning, coordination and execution of livelihoods including agriculture/farming
• livestock and poultry
• apprenticeship
• entrepreneurship
• TVET, focused technical support to the program team.
• Lead the development of specific livelihood pathways training modules, train front-line staff on the newly developed training materials
• finalize the participant training rollout plans and provide support to the cascading down of the training.
• Provide technical leadership to budget, plan and deliver the livelihood interventions, including conducting localized market assessments
• training on chosen livelihood pathways
• asset mapping, procurement, distribution and management support.
• Lead the training of branch staff to capacitate them to conduct participant needs assessment and market assessments.
• Coordinate the training and sensitization of market actors and steer the formalization of relationships with service providers to support market development and facilitation efforts.
• Lead the training of community-based Community Agriculture Providers and Community Livestock Promoters and ensure they are well equipped to start providing services to program participants.
• Coordinate closely with the TSOs and provide on the job training/ technical oversight to ensure all livelihoods interventions are delivered in a strategic and timely manner.
• Liaise with key stakeholders (government and non-government) and collect relevant training materials that can be used to develop/strengthen/ contextualize BRAC’s training materials.
• Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, service providers, to support the delivery of interventions as well as the program’s grassroots advocacy and partnerships work.
• Maintain a close working relationship and ensure alignment with the country’s program team, AIM central team and BI technical anchors and consultants (as needed),
• dentify and document good practices and share this knowledge with the country team
• Regularly check MIS and ensure proper reporting of livelihood and market development activities.

Safeguarding responsibilities

Safeguarding responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Challenges

Challenges:

• Managing effective coordination among several team members within the BRAC family
• Retaining the TSOs in their respective roles
• Emerging livelihood perceptions and needs for AGYW
• Dual support of TSOs and coordination with AIM regional managers for effective supportive and technical supervision of TSOs

Key Performance Indicators

Key Performance Indicators:

• Country-specific training manual development, clear training roll-out and staff capacity building plan
• Ability to effectively guide and provide technical support to TSOs in their respective roles
• Timely and effective delivery of all livelihood and market development related activities
• Individual/specific KPIs as agreed with the supervisor.

Academic Qualifications

Academic Qualifications:

• Graduate/Post graduate in Veterinary Medicine /Animal husbandry/Forestry/Crop Production/Agronomy/Business Development/ Social Sciences or any other related subject.

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge:

• Training materials development and staff capacity building
• Training facilitation
• Computer literacy
• Report writing
• Proactive, self-starter, and independent worker with the ability to manage large teams.

Experience Requirements

Experience Requirements:

• 5 years of relevant work experience, preferably in programs focused on livelihoods or economic development
• Previous experience in providing technical assistance, training module development, training facilitation and providing supportive supervision to several team members
• Demonstrated experience in designing, managing, and implementing program activities to promote gender equality and social inclusion.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate cultural sensitivity and maintain collaborative working relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Familiarity with graduation approach is preferred
• Experience of working in integrated programming, particularly for adolescent girls and young women is a plus.

How to apply

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application process to grab your dream opportunity!

Qualified and interested candidates are recommended to email their Resume with a signed cover letter and any supporting documents in a single PDF format to sbirwanda.recruitment@brac.net; mentioning a brief academic background, career summary, core competence, notarized copies of academic qualifications and professional certifications (if any) etc. within 250 words.;Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar