Overview
The role involves strategic leadership and technical expertise in the design, management, and coordination of a resilience program. The purpose is to address food security, livelihoods, access to basic social services, social cohesion, and family planning challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure liaison with sectoral ministries and local authorities for project alignment.
- Coordinate relations with SMEs, producer organizations, donors, and private partners.
- Promote social cohesion by facilitating dialogue and collaboration.
- Supervise the acceleration of local SMEs for fortified flour production.
- Facilitate the signing of supply contracts between SMEs and producers.
- Coach training on post-harvest management, fortification, packaging, and quality control.
- Promote digital innovations.
- Establish a results-based monitoring framework.
- Document project impacts and organize experience-sharing events.
- Produce regular reports for donors and partners.
- Ensure dissemination of results to communities, partners, and investors.
- Organize an agri-tech hackathon and showcase events.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of professional experience after obtaining a university degree.
- Four (4) additional years of relevant professional experience, including:
- Work experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo, strongly desired.
- Expertise in resilience, food security, nutrition, social safety nets, and social protection programs in fragile contexts.
- Solid experience in agri-food processing and/or nutritional fortification of food products, particularly flours from local products, with good knowledge of food safety and quality standards.
- Proven experience in managing and coordinating multi-sectoral resilience programs integrating processing, fortification, and economic inclusion.
- Previous experience collaborating with multi-stakeholder consortia (government agencies, NGOs, SMEs, producer organizations).
- Good understanding of local agri-food value chains and support mechanisms for SMEs in the processing sector.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation and joint program management would be an asset.
- Close collaboration experience with sectoral ministries and public policy development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams in strategic and technical discussions.
- Work experience within a UN agency or international NGO would be an advantage.
- Active participation in policy discussions and contribution to strategic decision-making.
Qualifications
• Higher university degree (Master or equivalent) in international affairs, economics, nutrition/health, agriculture, environmental sciences, social sciences, or any other relevant field for international development assistance, OR a first-cycle university degree (Bachelor) with additional years of relevant professional experience and/or complementary training/courses.
