Women-led Agricultural Cooperatives (WLAC) Project Facilitato at World Vision

Key Responsibilities:

Planning, Project Implementation, and Management

• Oversee the implementation of planned activities to ensure targets are achieved by ensuring that project activities are carried out in a timely manner per WLAC approved work plan, and that the project achieves results in line with its annual approved work plan and annual targets in each area.
• Coordinate and manage project staff to effectively carry out their tasks as outlined in the project document and hold periodic meetings as scheduled.
• Ensure each staff has a clear weekly work plan and that necessary resources are available for them to implement their responsibilities

Leadership and Management

• Direct and oversee grant implementation, ensuring that all strategic objectives are met through proper design, staffing, implementation, and quality assurance.
• Lead quarterly planning to ensure that plans are made to meet the targets set out in the project design and budget.
• Facilitate a working environment of mutual trust, respect, and care among all staff. Encourage effective teamwork, with staff members supporting each other.
• Provide leadership and coordination with the Gesundes Afrika team, government departments, vendors, partners, and community-based organisations.
• Establish partnerships with stakeholders that are critical to the project deliverables
• Conduct monthly staff meetings to ensure issues are raised and addressed and to encourage reflection on project progress and learning for improvement
• Strengthen women-led cooperatives in the target area to have access to external markets for their agricultural goods – through strong engagement with market companies like Shoprite
• Provide training for women-led cooperatives on improved use of agricultural technologies
• Ensure vendors and contractors are engaged effectively and deliver on time
• Manage project budget and allocate project resources in line with the scope of the project
• To enforce stewardship and accountability by ensuring that resources are efficiently and effectively utilized within the project for the intended purpose.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

• Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems in collaboration with the M & E Manager as well as the Marketing & Communications Lead.
• To coordinate and prepare for the submission of periodic quality and timely project reports (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual), including narratives and financial reports.
• Conduct monitoring visits to project areas to assess progress against targets and to provide coaching and direction to activities in areas where improvements are needed.
• Act as the initial troubleshooter when difficulties in implementation are identified; meet with necessary project participants, listen to challenges, and actively identify solutions such that projects can continue as needed. Take corrective action when staff are failing to achieve targets
• Monitor local context and report on how changes in context may affect program activities including changes in the security environment

Internal and External Relations & others

• Represent the WLAC Project internally to other WV departments and externally to local government and GWC to ensure positive relationships are built. Strengthen communication and relationship with current donors and prospective donors.
• Closely collaborate and network with the government departments such as Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Basic Education, Agriculture, Social Development as well as Water and Sanitation and other stakeholders, in order to ensure transition and sustainability of the program, continued partnership and sharing best practices in various fields
• Co-ordinate with other NGOs, CBOs or similar organizations in the area to ensure complementarity of approaches and host visits from local government and donors as required
• Communicate World Vision's Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.
• Attend and lead weekly devotions.