FAO is seeking a field-based specialist to coordinate AFR100 Support Programme activities in the Monduli–Karatu landscape, provide technical guidance on Forest Landscape Restoration, monitor implementation quality, and facilitate collaboration among service providers, communities and local authorities.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate field-level activities across service providers operating in the Monduli–Karatu landscape, ensuring coherence, complementarity and avoidance of duplication.
- Organize and facilitate landscape-level coordination meetings and support coordination among service providers and stakeholders.
- Maintain working relationships with district authorities, local government focal points, communities and Forest and Farm Producer Organizations.
- Facilitate collaboration and joint problem-solving among service providers, communities and local authorities.
- Maintain a strong field presence and participate in restoration bootcamps, sensitization sessions, coordination visits and other priority field events.
- Support communities and producer groups in accessing grant mechanisms, including grant sensitization and application platform submissions.
- Provide technical guidance on Forest Landscape Restoration approaches and ensure interventions align with ROAM-identified priorities and technical guidance.
- Support service providers in selecting and applying restoration approaches appropriate to local ecosystems, land-use contexts and restoration objectives.
- Conduct regular field visits and site checks to verify implementation quality, technical soundness and progress.
- Identify implementation challenges, technical risks and deviations, and recommend corrective actions.
- Follow up on corrective actions and provide technical support to improve implementation quality.
- Support the M&E Specialist in verifying information reported by service providers against progress and results observed in the field.
- Follow up on delayed, incomplete or unclear information and facilitate timely submission of monitoring inputs.
- Flag discrepancies, implementation gaps and emerging issues to the Project Coordinator, M&E Specialist and relevant colleagues.
- Provide regular field-level updates and contextual information on restoration activities and emerging results.
- Identify and share good practices, lessons learned, success stories and noteworthy field developments for documentation and visibility.
- Facilitate access to field information, stakeholders and intervention sites for monitoring, communication and learning activities.
- Perform other duties specified by the supervisor in support of FAO mission goals and the strategic framework.
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in a relevant forestry, natural resources, environmental or restoration discipline.
- Forest and Landscape Restoration technical knowledge.
- Field coordination and supervision skills.
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
- Knowledge of sustainable land management, forestry, agroforestry or natural resource management.
- Experience with rural communities, producer organizations and local authorities.
- Monitoring, field verification, reporting and quality assurance skills.
- Strong communication, teamwork, results focus and knowledge-sharing abilities.
- Fluency in Swahili and working knowledge of English.
- Tanzanian nationality.
Application Instructions
- Complete your online profile, attach a letter of motivation and submit your application through the FAO recruitment portal.
- Only applications received will be considered.
- For assistance, register with FAO client support
