Job Responsibilities

• Providing technical support to the project teams and project partners to ensure the achievement of the projects’ objectives
• Supporting the consolidation and management of relationships with core project stakeholders and ensuring harmonization of procedural and methodological approaches and systems between the project and the Operating Partners as a whole to ensure effective implementation of the project.
• Facilitating engagement with and inputs from relevant technical experts (from FAO and other specialized institutions) in setting up systems for project implementation and monitoring to ensure that it is adopting best practices approaches for operational management and technical innovation.
• Overseeing the establishment and initial implementation of mechanisms for outreach and communication by the project at regional and global levels, in support of the scaling out of impacts and the sharing of knowledge to the benefit of the project and other relevant initiatives in the region and beyond.
• Providing advisory and backstopping support to ensure that the project is at the forefront of global good practice (and fully compliant with project donors (EU), FAO and Government principles and procedures) in the implementation of environmental and social safeguards and the gender action plan, across all thematic components of the project.
• Providing technical advice to the annual review of project workplan and result framework including project’s expected outcomes, output and activities.
• Coordinating the work and deliverables of FAO recruited staff under the project.
• Ensuring that FAO led activities are executed in a manner consistent with the project document and that FAO led outputs are delivered to the highest possible standards.
• Leading the efforts to ensure (1) the linkages between the different components and the different levels of project actions implemented by different project partners; and (2) promote strong involvement and ownership of the project results by local partners, policy makers and other local stakeholders.
• Contributing to monitoring of project implementation risks and work to ensure compliance with risk management strategies to meet FAO requirements for environmental and social safeguards.
• Contributing to the preparation of the Project Implementation Progress Report to the donor, midterm and final evaluation reports as defined in the project document.
• Overseeing the periodic monitoring and reporting by FAO to EU donor on project results and M&E indicators and provide advice to optimize project activities in line with the interests of the government and the donor.
• Other duties as required.