Programme Manager – SUSTAIN II at IUCN Tanzania

IUCN/Tanzania is implementing the SUSTAIN Productive Landscapes for Inclusive Growth (SUSTAIN Pro) that is designed to tackle food systems challenge by decoupling productivity from land degradation and ecosystem loss, reconnecting the relationships between governance structures for land and water by improving integration and inclusion, aggregating success and innovation in food system processes and practices and through building landscape partnerships to drive change; and SUSTAIN Ecosystem stewardship to balance sustainability & growth (SUSTAIN Eco) projects that aim to addresses ecosystem degradation and enables the sustainable and inclusive management of natural resources through improved governance and rights, sustainable management practices and by catalyzing investment in protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems within the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania (SACGOT). The projects core objectives include:
• Enhance food security and climate resilience of local communities by enabling demonstration, replication and scale up of sustainable and productive agricultural knowledge, practices and technologies.
• Apply nature-based solutions to restore land health and
• Incentivize inclusive value chains that rely upon sustainable production systems.

IUCN Tanzania is seeking a high caliber Programme Manager to facilitate the implementation of the SUSTAIN Pro and SUSTAIN Eco projects. S/he will be responsible for leading overall project activities to be implemented by IUCN team at the national and site level (Kilombero, Mbarali and Sumbawanga clusters) as well as oversee the execution of project activities by service providers involved. The Programme Manager will also coordinate the other IUCN projects within the SACGOT including GEF 7 Food Systems and Land Use Restoration (FOLUR) project to ensure integration and coherence of strategy, approaches and aggregation of stakeholders.

Under direct supervision of the Tanzania Country Representative (and technical line management to GWP lead), the Programme Manager will work closely with CEO and technical team from SACGOT Center Ltd., designated contacts from Ministries of Agriculture, Trade and Natural Resources, as well as technical partners and service providers. The Programme Manager is responsible for the overall planning, budgeting, technical management and monitoring of the SUSTAIN Pro and Eco projects in collaboration with the Government of Tanzania, Service providers and within the scope laid down by the Project Steering Committee (PSC) and landscape level actors in Kilombero, Mbarali and Sumbawanga clusters.
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SPECIFIC DUTIES:

The specific duties and responsibilities of the Programme Manager;

I)Provide overall management of the SUSTAIN Pro/Eco projects
Lead the development of annual activity plan, budget and procurement work plan based on expected annual outputs;
Follow up on the compliance of project implementation in line with policies and safeguards
Supervise agreed project management procedures to facilitate project implementation and ensure delivery of high quality outcomes;
Supervise the landscape management team, service providers and consultants that work for the project;
Work with project staff to receive, review and synthesize monitoring information to support adaptive management and ensure timely compliance with internal and donor monitoring and reporting requirements, especially to produce the SUSTAIN Pro/Eco annual performance reports (APRs);
Prepare any required updates / summaries on the projects and participate in project-related meetings with the donors, government, service providers, etc.
Supervise personnel engaged in delivering aspects of the project
Prepare any required updates / summaries on the projects and participate in project-related meetings with the NORAD, SIDA, GEF IA project steering committee, service providers, private sector, development partners working group etc.

II)Coordinate partnership with key SUSTAIN Pro/Eco stakeholders;
Build, maintain and manage effective working relationships with partners.
Ensure that partners deliver to the highest standards, support project objectives and targets;
Ensure landscape management team and related multi stakeholder platforms, FFPOs and AMCOs work coherently;
Facilitate communications and linkages at sub-regional and national levels, as well as within the SUSTAIN Pro/Eco service providers;
Ensure continuous liaison with the relevant Government agencies, NGOs and private sector;

III)Provide technical advice and support to the monitoring and implementation of the Project activities;
Provide technical inputs to the implementation of the different project activities and outputs – by providing technical inputs to workshop presentations, to studies, to advisory services and to other activities and outputs of the project;
Provide economic, scientific, technical and administrative leadership to the project team and act as the main representative of the project;
Draft terms of reference and conduct hiring procedures for consultants
Oversee all cross-cutting activities and ensure their strong support of and synergy with technical implementation objectives and vision, including, but not limited to: communications and outreach; monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL), knowledge management; and, gender and social inclusion;
Monitor and report the implementation of environmental and social risk management measures through the project cycle.
Coordinate and contribute to the preparation and publication of national scientific and technical outputs from the Project

IV)External relations and resource mobilization;
Engage with the government of Tanzania to support implementation of land restoration and food systems improvement targets
Scope out opportunities for policy and technical engagement with key stakeholders;
Lead in the development and submission of concepts and funding proposals
Facilitate integration of the technical missions with broader work of the IUCN ESARO in close collaboration with technical coordinators.

VI) Other responsibilities;
Staff management and development

Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time.