SNV is a non-profit international development organisation established in the Netherlands in 1965. For over 50 years, SNV has been at the forefront of development, helping to build local capacity and empower local  families and communities to break the cycle of poverty. We are present on the ground in 30 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Middle East and South America and operate in Agriculture & Food Security, Renewable Energy, and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. Our 1,200+ advisors in the field come from a variety of cultural and technical backgrounds, and the vast majority are nationals of the countries where we work.

Overview IEWY Project:

IEWY is addressing the issue of limited, insecure, and stagnating economic benefits enjoyed by rural women and youth involved in the dairy sub-sector. This is important because; the dairy sector shows good market opportunity, and strong pro-poor potential exists, but remains largely untapped.

In the project area, over 140,000 households are involved in dairy production but major production, collection, marketing, and processing challenges exists which limits economic benefits for rural women and youth.  At household level, dairy cows are owned by men, whereas women perform 95% of dairy activities and with increasing sales volumes, control over income shifts to their husbands.

Youth are involved in household dairy activities as free family labor. Few youth are able to set up their own dairy farms due to constraints in accessing finance and ownership of land, and animals. A substantial number of youth are involved in the informal milk trade, but this is a vulnerable form of self-employment

IEWY project goal is to improve the livelihoods, particularly of women and youth, in rural households in the dairy value chain in Hai and Siha districts in Kilimanjaro region, specifically by (a) improving production and productivity of smallholder dairy farmers, (b) increasing the amount of, and control over, income earned by women from dairy activities, (c) enterprise and employment creation for young people, (d) strengthening producer organizations with improved services, and (e) increasing knowledge sharing and learning. The project is leveraging SNV work in order to enhance youth employment and use of energy saving technology.

Overview of the Position

SNV is leading a partnership of 3 implementing organisations who perform vital IEWY project roles and functions specified in the partnership agreement. With SNV, the other implementing partners are; Match Markers Associates MMA, Capacity Building Organisation CABO, and newly registered Kilimanjaro Dairy Cooperative Joint Enterprise Ltd KDCJE Ltd. The successful candidate will have oversights roles in, (a) strengthening the capacity of a nascent KDCJE Ltd to deliver successfully its functions in the IEWY project, (b) monitoring, evaluation and learning and (c) financial and operational functions of the project.

Key Responsibilities

Project Strategy:

• Provide overall coordination of technical and capacity building interventions to KDCJE Ltd and its affiliated cooperatives members,

• Actively promote knowledge sharing, learning and joint actions amongst implementing partners and key stakeholder for dairy development,

• Conduct monitoring and evaluation through technical assistance and capacity building to implementing partners, dairy cooperatives, women and youth in data collection and analysis,

• Support project planning and quality control of implementing partners deliverables according to the project document, budget, and SNV/donor requirements, 

   

Networking and Partnership Development:

• Participate in relevant conferences/events and communicate project results and best practices to a broader audience and stakeholder,

• Actively support dairy platforms in information sharing, learning and joint action for dairy development,

• Support dairy cooperatives in building working relationship with private sector, government and relevant service providers,

• Build and maintain relationships with project stakeholders, including ministries, local government authorities, private sector, and partners

   

Operational Support:

• Provide operational support to project activities, including financial management, work-planning  and budgeting;

• Support preparations of periodic reports as per SNV/donor requirements.

• Have direct line management and supervision of consultants and local service providers,

• Communicate and correspond with project partners and relevant stakeholder on daily technical matters

   

Knowledge Development:

• Provide support in knowledge development, case studies, testimonials and documentation of the evidence and results from the project interventions. 

• At least 3 years relevant experience and a thorough understanding of dairy value chain development projects/agriculture programmes in Tanzania,

• Demonstrated experience in technical assistance, communications, publishing, networking, alliance building and facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, packaging information, organizational learning, and project design/proposal formulation,

• Knowledge and skills in communication, planning, M&E, working with media tools, use of media, infographics, social media etc 

• Leadership, coaching, mentoring, back-stopping and self-reflection skills,

• Innovative, entrepreneurial, business oriented,

• Excellent verbal communication and writing skills (in English and Swahili),

• Good analytical skills combined with a practical and pragmatic approach oriented towards lasting results.