New "Regional Youth Specialist - Tanzania Horticulture Activity" is needed at Corus International Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Longtime partner INGOs Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and IMA World Health (IMA) have founded Corus International to spearhead new collaborations and innovations across the global development, aid, public health, and private sectors that achieve transformational change and build self-reliance.

LWR is seeking multiple candidates for several Regional Youth Specialist positions for an upcoming USAID-funded horticulture opportunity in Tanzania. The Horticulture Activity will be a five-year contract focused on increasing the commercialization, inclusiveness, and competitiveness of horticulture market systems in Tanzania.

The Regional Youth Specialists will lead technical assistance to implement youth-focused outreach project activities, including preparing youth for gainful employment and entrepreneurship and expanding access to critical information. The Specialists will promote youth networking and alliance building with farmer associations and private sector companies. This position will report directly to the Youth Inclusion Lead.

Regional Youth Specialists will be embedded in project regional offices within the regions of Morogoro, Iringa, Mbeya, Njombe, and Zanzibar.

Actual hiring is contingent upon successful contract award and USAID approval. Nationals of Tanzania are strongly encouraged to apply.

Duties

• Provide youth-focused technical input into annual regional work planning
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to implement youth skill building training activities in horticulture to improve linkages to job opportunities and management of financial resources
• Work closely with selected private business stakeholders and local government to develop their internal and external youth, livelihood, and gender programming capacities
• Empower youth to establish and maintain strong working relationships with local youth-led organizations, local civil society organizations, private sector companies, and other value chain stakeholders
• Empower youth and their communities to acquire the knowledge, skills, and resources to advocate for youth-friendly practices within the horticulture sector
• Support youth in skills training (tailored to regional context) to implement and/or carry out income-generating activities (food, marketing of agricultural products, savings and credit activities, solutions/resilience to various shocks and stresses) in coordination with the technical team
• Coordinate with the monitoring and evaluation team to develop and implement youth responsive M&E systems across project activities
• Contribute to the project's quarterly, biannual, and annual reports by highlighting successes, challenges, lessons learned, and opportunities in youth programming within the project
  

Qualifications

• The positions require competent and experienced persons with the following attributes:
• Postgraduate degree in international development, agriculture, or relevant field, with a minimum of five years of demonstrated experience in youth-led economic growth and livelihoods programming on donor-funded international projects (such as USAID, EU, FCDO, etc.)
• Competence in designing portable skills curricula and facilitation of capacity building workshops for community, private companies, and public sector engagement
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili in oral and written communication
• Advanced skills in MS Packages, and experience in monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive management
• Demonstrated understanding and application of USAID Youth in Development Policy and Positive Youth Development frameworks preferred
• Extensive knowledge in youth entrepreneur regional experience and experience in the Tanzanian country context strongly preferred
• Ability to travel within the region or country as needed
• Willingness to support Lutheran World Relief's mission
  

IMA/Corus International OR LWR/Corus International is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). As such, Corus makes employment decisions and provides equal employment opportunity without regard to an applicant's or employee's race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, and local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please notify Corus's Human Resources department.