Agriculture Program Manager/Team Leader

Agriculture Program Manager/Team Leader (National position)
(The position is contingent on award decision from the ADB)

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation seeks anAgriculture Program Manager/Team Leaderfor the Southeast Asia regional Core Agriculture Support Project (CASP) Phase II. This project will support the Asian Development Bank and the governments of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam) to create a more integrated, climate-friendly agricultural sector in the GMS. The outcome will be enhanced market access for environment-friendly agricultural products, particularly certified products using reduced agrochemicals. The five outputs are: (i) strengthened regional framework and capacity for agri-food quality management; (ii) established electronic trade of environmentally-friendly agri-food production of smallholders; (iii) increased adoption of gender-responsive and climate-friendly agriculture; (iv) facilitated knowledge management and dissemination; and (v) strengthened regional cooperation on agriculture in the GMS.

General Qualifications

• At least a master’s degree or equivalent qualification in agriculture or related fields
• At least 20 years of relevant experience in the agriculture sector
• At least 10 years in managerial or senior advisory position
• Adequate experience in implementing experience implementing projects in the GMS
• Sound and practical knowledge in relevant fields in Southeast Asia
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Past experience with the ADB is desirable
• Proven capacity to work with teams operating at a distance
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English

Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership for the CASP by ensuring the technical excellence of work programs while ensuring all work programs contribute to national and regional priorities within the scope of the policy requirements;
• Ensuring technical programs are planned in terms of contributing to change management through an institutional influence context and ensuring that change management within the context of an agreed policy agenda is adequately resourced and prioritized;
• Ensuring technical programs are delivered in terms of mainstreaming within the context of enhancing climate friendly agriculture and rural development goals of each country and ADB;
• Supporting national level institutional development including governance strengthening through the WGA NSSUs and supporting the collaboration and communication programs;
• Ensuring operational and administrative systems provide accurate and timely management information on a monthly basis to monitor and improve operational performance;
• Defining and applying operational benchmarks for all parts of the CASP from work planning, monitoring, administration, procurement, contract management, and capacity strengthening, among others that are integrated with the Project Performance Management system indicators;
• Supporting technical experts in leveraging work programs with development partners and national agencies;
• Ensuring quality controls are applied to all technical work programs to ensure ‘excellence” at all levels of management and implementation;
• Responsibility for building consensus and maintaining the momentum to define future institutional strategy for CASP within the context of the emerging institutional strategy for the regional environment program;
• Ensuring all work programs are fully integrated with, and provide both input and demand for output of the information and knowledge management services developed under the regional program;
• Providing day-to-day management including planning, administration, implementation and reporting decision making for the CASP.

Contract: The position will be full-time with total input of 22 man-months and based in Bangkok, Thailand. Position is contingent on award decision from the ADB.

How to apply: Please send your application letter stating your applying position, experience and motivation to apply for this position, and CV to Manoli Strecker, Business Development Manager, at [email protected] by 15th January 2016.

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