Deputy Programme Manager - Partnership and Youth Engagement (Contingent to donor funding)

Strategic and technical Leadership : 

• Provide primary technical direction to the programme, ensuring alignment and technical guidance on youth engagement on SNV and consortium implementing partners.
• Primary delivery responsibility for leading the engagement and involvement of young Agri-entrepreneurs.
• Guide the design of youth engagement together with consortium partners.
• Create and deliver an inclusive engagement programme that builds awareness and understanding of the needs of young agri-preneurs.
• Guide the design of safeguarding strategies, and ensure the implementation is aligned with SNV quality standards on safeguarding.
• Guide and nurture the development of partnerships with government, private sector, and other actors in the agriculture employment ecosystem
• Primary delivery responsibility for leading the engagement and involvement of public and private partnerships in the programme
• Create and deliver an advocacy strategy for the programme that builds awareness and understanding of the needs of young agri-preneurs.
• Coordinates with the technical team to develop a holistic strategy for capacity building for consortium partners and other local implementing partners.
• Provide technical guidance for the advisors for effective coordination, synergy and sharing of experiences
• Coordinate and quality control the development and review of annual work plans, budgets, and progress reporting for all components, ensuring synergies between different workstreams across the programme as well as coherence with the work plans of implementing partners
• Develop mitigation plans to reduce risks and take timely, corrective actions to remedy any deviation from the work plans.

Reporting, M&E, knowledge development and quality assurance

• Contribute to the  preparation of perioding  reports for donors and other stakeholders
• Ensures the quality of the different technical reports and papers
• Oversee periodic (quarterly and annual) project reflection processes to ensure adaptation to delivery approaches in line with project outcomes
• Conduct regular monitoring of the implementation of the interventions at various levels and provide feedback
• Follow up with the advisors and partners on the actions taken based on the feedback provided
• In collaboration with the MEAL coordinator develop knowledge management strategies for the projects
• Support team-wide efforts to make learning (including across geographies and value chains) a core part of the programme management process so that key learning questions are answered.

• Contribute to internal and external knowledge sharing by documenting project insights, attending workshops/conferences, and applying lessons learned.
• Contribute to the development of timely, accurate, consistent and informed reports for the donor and SNV

Team management

• Provide team leadership and line manage five technical advisors (Gender Advisor, Inclusion and Youth Engagement Advisor, Safeguarding Advisor, Partnerships and Policy Advisor), and 7 cluster coordinators including effective performance management and ensuring the provision of support as required to ensure a highly engaged team.

 Stakeholder relationship management:

• Develop and maintain an effective network and relationships with key public and private stakeholders for project delivery especially in relation to outcomes
• Present results and represent the project as required in national, regional, and international forums.