Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Programme Policy Officer – National Consultant

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
A Bsc in Project planning and management, Bsc in Community development studies, Bsc in Statistics (MSc/PHD is an added advantage), with a proven track record in conducting a field assessment in the agriculture sector including baseline survey of the agricultural production and marketing and extension services;
Language:
Fluency (oral and written) in English and Kiswahili a must; proficiency in other languages spoken regionally is an asset.

JOB PURPOSE
PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The overall objective of the household baseline survey is to establish benchmarks for effective planning, monitoring and evaluation including measurements of outcomes and impacts of FtMA interventions. The baseline survey will focus particularly on farmers household level, to understand the situation of farmers’ yields, their income from agriculture activities, Climate smart agricultural (CSA) practices and knowledge, access to finance, inputs use, to mention a few.
The baseline will form the basis for progressive monitoring of achievements of the planned results, through the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, as a benchmark for comparison of the changes achieved annually and at the end of the project. The household baseline survey will also guide the design and refinement of evidence-based project strategies and approaches to be applied in the project for increasing farmers productivity, income, and resilience especially for women and youth.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
The short-term consultant is expected to:
• Establish baseline levels of key indicators to enable the measurement of change by virtue of FtMA intervention strategies and the project log frame.
• Analyse household livelihoods to determine social economic status and vulnerability of smallholder farmers (SHFs).
• Conduct desk-review, research and analyse relevant literature and secondary data from multiple data sources on maize, rice, sunflower and beans value chain Interventions in southern highlands (Mbeya, Iringa, Njombe regions), northern highlands (Manyara region), Central region ( Singida), coast region (Morogoro) and undertake a profitability analysis of the different value chains taking into consideration product cost analysis based on the realities of sampled Smallholder farmers (SHFs).
• Assess food security situation to determine surplus potential for sale.
• Study or assess business/income streams for SHFs In the FtMA project areas from both agriculture and non-agriculture income activities.
• Scope existence of small holder farmers through the network of FSCs (spread/clustering)
• Determine the existing linkages to markets and other related marketing parameters such as types and sources of inputs used, mechanization, aggregators currently in the cluster, output pricing models and challenges facing farmers in selling their outputs.
• Assess skills and knowledge of SHFs on post-harvest management (PHM), CSA, inputs, financial services, etc and identify capacity strengthening and skills-development needs of small holders’ farmers.
• Examine existing CSA practices and approaches of small holder farmers that build their resilience to climate changein the project areas.
• Scope existence of service offering and different commercial/ non-commercial models to offer last mile.
• Establish the availability / accessibility business support services to SHFs and Farmer Service Centers (FSCs) in the project locations that will enhance their business competencies, capacities, and competitiveness to become commercially viable entities.
• Engage with SHFs in the project locations to understand their production systems, inputs and output markets, the obstacles they face to achieving sustainable productivity for commercial viability as well as generate knowledge of existing initiatives and solutions to low agricultural productivity to the small holder farmers.
• Identify challenges, lessons, risks and opportunities that are likely to impact on the project and propose some recommendations to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of the project.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
Capability Name
• Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher)
• Demonstrates the ability to design, implement, monitor and provide oversight over effective and efficient programmes deploying different transfer modalities.
• Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.)
• Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Emergency Programming
• Displays ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches
Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government
• Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes..

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
Experience:
• At least eight years of experience in agribusiness, either in private sector enterprises or in profit value chain related projects, with a strong exposure to the private sector.
• Experience in conducting baseline surveys or evaluations for development programmes in Tanzania context.
• Proven track record on designing quantitative and qualitative data collection tools, data collection and analysis, and use of participatory approaches both in the field and through digital platforms (phone, online).


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Application procedures: Qualified Tanzanians (Individual Consultants) are invited to submit their Technical and Financial proposal by email through (tanzania.hr@wfp.org)  together with the following documents before 27th September 2022:
Cover letter.
CV of proposed consultant teams including reference details of previous clients.
References with detailed contact address of at least 3 organizations in which the individual consultant has provided similar services recently (at least 5 years), and.
Samples of 3 similar previous work pieces (assessment/survey/baseline survey/evaluation).


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