Overview
The Agri-TVET Officer will provide hands-on, grassroots implementation, monitoring, and administrative support for the ARISE-GREEN project, focusing on reforming and strengthening inclusive, accredited, and climate-responsive Agri-Technical and Vocational Education and Training (Agri-TVET) systems in South Sudan.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide daily on-site operational support to target public TVET centers and Centres of Excellence.
- Monitor the delivery of practical Competency-Based Training (CBT) modules.
- Assist in organizing capacity-building workshops and refresher training tracks for local TVET instructors.
- Verify that target facilities, workshops, and agricultural demonstration plots are maintained safely and cleanly.
- Track the daily delivery and inventory management of specialized technical tools, solar assets, and agricultural inputs.
- Conduct community-level mobilization and enrollment campaigns to recruit vulnerable youth.
- Act as the direct focal point for student welfare, maintaining daily attendance logs and progress sheets.
- Assist in conducting the verification process for the safe integration of high-risk youth and ex-combatants.
- Assist the MEAL team in deploying graduate tracking tools.
- Routine visit and monitor field sites where students are placed for Work-Based Learning (WBL), internships, and private-sector apprenticeships.
- Collect feedback from local hosting MSMEs and commercial farms.
- Assist in compiling verified beneficiary lists for the distribution of specialized self-employment Start-up Productivity Kits.
- Supervise the physical verification, assembly, and secure handover of Start-up Kits to certified graduates.
- Maintain close, respectful relationships with Boma and Payam-level authorities, youth associations, women’s groups, and traditional leadership.
- Represent the field team in village-level or facility-level coordination meetings.
- Flag cross-consortium field overlaps or localized operational friction with parallel field teams.
- Collect routine disaggregated data regarding project indicators and input them into primary tracking sheets.
- Immediately report any child safeguarding, protection, or gender-based discrimination concerns.
- Draft high-quality weekly field updates and monthly narrative reports.
- Monitor field-level alignment with the European Union Communication and Visibility Plan.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of direct field experience implementing community-based livelihoods, technical vocational education (TVET), or rural agricultural projects in South Sudan.
- Practical familiarity with the local socioeconomic and cultural context of Eastern Equatoria State (Torit, Magwi, or Kapoeta) is highly required.
- Basic understanding of inclusive education principles, youth employment pathways, or market-driven agricultural value chains.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with vulnerable youth populations, including displaced persons or low-literacy learners.
- Familiarity with basic data collection methods and routine report writing.
- Proven capability to establish trust and maintain transparent relationships with youth, community structures, and institutional staff.
- Strong ability to track inventories, manage multiple task lists, and coordinate moving parts in a busy field setting.
- Resourcefulness in addressing day-to-day field bottlenecks independently.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in Agriculture/Agribusiness, Vocational Training, Agronomy, Community Development, Social Sciences, or a relevant practical technical field.
