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Position: Team Leader
Contract type: National employment contract
The Team Leader will assume the role of Sector Leader for Agrifood in SNV Tanzania, in which capacity he/ she will participate as a key member of SNV’s global agrifood technical team, and also represent the agrifood sector on the SNV Tanzania Country Management Team.
1. Team Management
SNV offers a challenging work environment, opportunities to lead and innovate, and a commitment to growing your skills in a fulfilling and diverse working environment. Our staff benefit from, and contribute to, an internal global network of Agri- food experts. For more information, please visit our website: www.snv.org.
How to Apply
The vacancy is for internal and external candidate and it will active up to 5th December 2023 and all applications should be through Smart Recruiters on the following link Careers at SNV.
All information will be in the strictest confidence and in accordance to GDPR. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
We will require that you provide us with full details of three people who are willing to act as a referee. We will not contact these referees without your explicit permission.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Apply here
Contract type: National employment contract
The Team Leader will assume the role of Sector Leader for Agrifood in SNV Tanzania, in which capacity he/ she will participate as a key member of SNV’s global agrifood technical team, and also represent the agrifood sector on the SNV Tanzania Country Management Team.
1. Team Management
- Build management team and set team tone and culture.
- Managerial oversight and leadership development of Deputy TL, cross-cutting and functional leads
- Leadership on articulating strategic direction, design and resourcing.
- Oversight and overall accountability for achievement of project objectives.
- Ensure adaptive management in response to lessons and evidence.
- Building profile and external high-level relationships with key partners.
- Negotiation of project partnerships.
- Review and ensure consortium working effectively and efficiently.
- Form Project Advisory Group.
- Bring clarity to learning agenda and develop strategic approach to sharing and stakeholder engagement.
- Monitor and manage outcomes, impacts and risks.
- Ensure that project planning and implementation is done in such a way as to facilitate reflection and generation and take up of ideas and innovations.
- Compliance oversight including project-level risk management and adherence to SNV and donor policies.
- Navigating political economy.
- Lead interface with SNV (Tanzania CO and global), donor and TZ government.
- Primary point of contact for external reviews and evaluations.
- Provide strategic and policy inputs for positioning and profiling of SNV Tanzania country office and Agrifood Sector.
- Actively participate in Tanzania country office strategic planning meetings.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in agriculture, rural development, agribusiness, nutrition or related field.
- At least 12 years’ experience in international development
- At least 8 years’ experience in successfully leading international development projects/ programmes
- Extensive experience working in the field of agriculture, agribusiness and/ or rural development
- Experience implementing development programs in Tanzania or East Africa (highly desirable)
- Experience working with agribusiness, including input suppliers and off takers (highly desirable)
- Technical skills in agricultural land management, agribusiness and/ or nutrition (desirable)
- Experience in cross-cutting issues of behaviour change communications, digital technology and/ or gender and social inclusion (desirable
- Leadership
- Team management
- Planning
- Project management
- Decisiveness
- Conceptual thinking
- Respect for staff, colleagues and partners
- Pragmatic approach
Additional Information
Working at SNVSNV offers a challenging work environment, opportunities to lead and innovate, and a commitment to growing your skills in a fulfilling and diverse working environment. Our staff benefit from, and contribute to, an internal global network of Agri- food experts. For more information, please visit our website: www.snv.org.
How to Apply
The vacancy is for internal and external candidate and it will active up to 5th December 2023 and all applications should be through Smart Recruiters on the following link Careers at SNV.
All information will be in the strictest confidence and in accordance to GDPR. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
We will require that you provide us with full details of three people who are willing to act as a referee. We will not contact these referees without your explicit permission.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Apply here
