Deadline: 01 February, 2021

Location: Zambia

Global Communities is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Operations Manager.

Global Communities’ mission is to create long-lasting, positive and community-led change that improves the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people across the globe.

Responsibilities

• Assist the chief of party in developing and executing project workplans and overseeing and implementing project activities
• Provide leadership, management, and direction to field-level activities
• Coordinate technical support in the mechanisation, agronomic and capacity building components with partners
• Develop and coordinate a capacity building programme in collaboration with partners
• Assist the project’s strategic, financial, and operational planning, including the detailed implementation planning process
• Lead and oversee technical team and components and ensure activities align with the workplan
• Adapt project implementation and activities to achieve objectives and targets as needed
• Corroborate and monitor overall technical direction of the programme
• Process timely and quality submission of all deliverables to USAID
• Provide surveillance and coordination with private sector partners in the programme
• Manage core project technical staff
• Serve as primary point of contact for technical activities to Emerging Farmers Partnership (EFP) project partners and stakeholders
• Provide general coordination of the capacity building of emerging farmers

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness, Economics, Agriculture, or a related field
• Master’s degree preferred
• Five years, minimum, of experience in managing implementation of USAID-funded programmes
• Knowledge and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of capacity building/training programmes
• Five years, minimum, of senior management experience
• Proven leadership skills building and managing cooperative, high-level relationships and motivating diverse teams
• Experience in facilitating blended finance models to advance agricultural scaling
• Seven years, minimum, of senior management experience in managing relevant donor-funded programmes
• Experience and/or technical knowledge in designing, managing development projects and activities, particularly related to agricultural development
• Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Ability to read and interpret documents and communicate with others as necessary to perform job duties effectively
• Nationality of Zambia

To apply and for more information, click here.

Photo source: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture