Overview
The Agri-TVET Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day field execution, technical oversight, and localized coordination of project activities within their assigned hub, ensuring high-quality implementation of TVET institutional capacity building, practical training delivery, private sector engagement, and youth support structures.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead direct execution of project activities within assigned county/hub.
- Supervise transition from theoretical instruction to practical, market-led Competency-Based Training (CBT).
- Oversee institutional strengthening of target centers.
- Coordinate localized infrastructure upgrades and equipment installation.
- Support professional development and mentoring of TVET instructors.
- Identify, map, and engage local micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and agri-value chain actors.
- Operationalize Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with private sector partners.
- Coordinate delivery of business incubation, financial literacy, and life skills training.
- Supervise procurement and distribution of self-employment Start-up Productivity Kits.
- Drive localized youth mobilization and enrollment campaigns.
- Collaborate with local UNMISS field offices and community leaders for high-risk youth referral.
- Mainstream child safeguarding, safe programming, and gender-transformative protection protocols.
- Support operationalization of county/state-level TVET Ad-hoc Committees.
- Maintain relationships with County Commissioners, local Payam authorities, and government ministries.
- Coordinate with field teams from parallel consortiums to prevent duplication.
- Conduct routine monitoring visits to training workshops, fields, and apprenticeship sites.
- Collect, verify, and compile disaggregated participant tracking data.
- Draft weekly, monthly, and quarterly field progress reports.
- Ensure field-level compliance with European Union Communication and Visibility Plan.
Required Experience
Minimum of 5 years of progressive field-level experience implementing development or humanitarian projects, with at least 3 years explicitly focused on TVET systems, youth livelihoods, climate-smart agriculture, or rural market linkages. Proven experience working in consortium-led projects or multi-partner collaborations in South Sudan, with specific familiarity with the context of Eastern Equatoria (Torit, Magwi, or Kapoeta) highly preferred. Direct experience handling community-level conflict sensitivity, vulnerable group inclusion, and working with high-risk youth demographics. Familiarity with European Union (EU) programmatic compliance, visibility rules, and reporting frameworks at the field level.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture/Agribusiness, Vocational Education (TVET) Management, Agronomy, Development Studies, Project Management, or a closely related field.
