DAI Global, LLC (DAI) is implementing a new USAID-funded agriculture program which aims to reinvigorate agricultural livelihoods and catalyze private sector engagement to address food insecurity, income gaps, target populations’ empowerment, and communities’ resilience to climate change. The activity actively facilitates implementation with and through local systems actors (such as anchor firms, business development and advisory service (BDAS) providers, education and financial institutions, and local communities). This approach centers a competitive, performance-based Partnership Facility (PF) to design interventions that: incorporate local Afghan knowledge, engage target populations, and leverage resources to ensure local ownership and sustainability. Utilizing performance-based grants, DAI will partner with stakeholders to achieve the below three objectives. 

Using a private sector-led, market systems development (MSD) approach, the activity is aimed at driving local system actor behavior change. In doing so, the activity endeavors to meaningfully improve Afghan lives and agriculture sector performance through the following objectives:   

Objective 1: Food Security Improved Through Increased and Inclusive Resilience, Productivity, Diversification, and Stability of Agricultural Value Chains  

Objective 2: Enhanced Communities’ Resilience to Climate Change-Induced Shocks, Specifically Water Stress 

             Objective 3: Target Population Economic Empowerment Strengthened

The Objective 2 Lead: Community Resilience will be responsible for leading the implementation of project’s efforts to enhance communities’ resilience to climate change-induced shocks, specifically water stress (Objective 2). With support from consortium partners, they will work with and through local community structures and technology product and service providers to enhance the resilience of communities to climate change-induced shocks. Co-leading with Community Engagement Officers and overseeing the Objective 2 Deputy Lead, they will ensure collaboration with the other leads for different objectives.

Scope of Work

The duties of the position include but are not limited to the following:

• Promote and lead the project’s aims to:
  • Improve watershed restoration and productive reforestation.
  • Promote the efficient use of water for agriculture.
  • Promote diversified livelihoods.
  • Support community investment in climate-smart technologies and practices.
• Provide technical assistance to set the foundation for sustainable, diversified, agricultural economic growth that creates market-based incentives for system actors to adopt climate-smart and water-efficient technologies.
• Assess how inclusive, conflict sensitive, gender responsive, accountable, and dynamic the existing coordination structures within community are, and how to strengthen their capacities to engage with international donors and implementing partners.
• Ensure overall proper documentation, monitoring and reporting of the status and performance of project activities including setting targets, capturing monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning including providing regular updates and submission of reports to the Deputy Chief of Party – Technical, or to USAID and partners as appropriate.
• Support the implementation of the Partnership Fund, serve on Grants Review and Award committees, works with the Grants Team to monitor progress and milestones.
• Draft updates, reports, and other communications documents related to the Objective.
• Serve as a key subject matter expert for all activities/areas under the Objective.
• Other duties assigned by the DCOP – Technical

• An advanced degree in international relations, communications, public administration, economics, or other relevant field is required or bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of relevant experience, master’s degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, and a PHD degree plus 1 year of relevant experience is required.
• Five years of experience working on donor-funded projects in a related role with supervisory, and project management experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated technical experience in a relevant technical area (community outreach, agriculture value chains, community resilience, climate-change adaptation, women’s economic empowerment) is required.
• Experience designing and implementing programs that support gender equality and equity, food security value chains, and water stress.
• Experience leading and managing the technical aspects of USAID projects, including a demonstrated understanding of applicable value chains-related experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage with a wide range of organizations, beneficiaries, and related parties.
• Proficiency in speaking and writing Dari or Pashto is required.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Word) computer software.
• Fluent English is required, including demonstrated report writing skills in English.

Interested candidates should submit their CV via the below link by November 25, 2024. Early applications are encouraged. No phone inquiries will be accepted, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please only submit 1 application.

Application Link: https://bit.ly/40CTFR0