- Lead planning, coordination, and implementation of CASHA activities within the assigned county.
- Develop detailed county work plans aligned with the 18-month project timeline.
- Ensure timely delivery of outputs including youth mobilization, training, business planning, and climate resilience activities.
- Represent Utunzi in county stakeholder forums and technical working groups.
- Oversee establishment and coordination of Youths in specific counties.
- Supervise transparent beneficiary selection and onboarding processes.
- Ensure inclusive targeting of marginalized youth, including young women, and persons with disabilities.
- Oversee enterprise profiling and skills assessments of selected youth.
- Ensure quality implementation of climate-smart livestock production, business development, and gender-trans-formative training modules.
- Oversee demonstration plots and peer learning activities.
- Provide technical backstopping to Community-Based Facilitators (CBFs)
- Coordinate business plan development support for youth entrepreneurs.
- Facilitate Business-to-Business (B2B) forums and buyer-seller engagements.
- Support formation and strengthening of producer groups and youth cooperatives.
- Ensure 70% of trained youth are linked to functional markets.
- Oversee implementation of early warning systems and climate information dissemination.
- Support livestock insurance uptake initiatives.
- Coordinate community-led rangeland management and feed reserve establishment.
- Promote climate-smart pastoral practices among youth enterprises.
- Ensure accurate data collection and reporting on outputs and outcomes.
- Conduct monthly supervision visits to training groups.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly county progress reports.
- Support baseline, midline, and endline assessments.
- Monitor county-level budget utilization.
- Ensure compliance with donor and organizational financial procedures.
- Oversee logistical arrangements for training and community engagement activities.
- Bachelorâs Degree in Animal Science, Livestock Production, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, Climate Change, or related field.
- Minimum 3 yearsâ experience in development programming within ASAL counties.
- Demonstrated experience in livestock value chains, youth entrepreneurship, or pastoral development.
- Proven experience in stakeholder coordination and community mobilization.
- Experience managing field teams in remote or hardship locations.
- Interested candidates should submit:
- A cover letter indicating preferred county
- Updated CV (max 3 pages)
- Copies of academic and professional certificates
- Contact details of three referees
- Applications should be sent to: recruitment@utunziafrica.org
- Subject Line: County Project Lead â [Preferred County]
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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