Project Manager / Team Leader – Climate‑Smart Agriculture

About the role

Action Against Hunger is seeking a Project Manager/Team Leader to provide technical leadership for climate‑smart agriculture interventions in refugee settlements and host communities in Uganda. The role will ensure integrated delivery across crop, livestock, beneficial insect, sustainable land management, market linkage, nutrition‑sensitive agriculture, and farmer institutional development.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and implementation of climate‑smart agriculture interventions across assigned sites.
• Coordinate technical specialists and field teams to ensure integrated delivery across selected value chains.
• Apply Farmer Field School and Farmer Institutional Development approaches consistently.
• Develop workplans, training packages, demonstration plot plans, input distribution plans, and field supervision schedules.
• Provide technical oversight for farmer group formation, cooperative development, and market‑readiness.
• Integrate cross‑cutting issues such as gender, youth, disability inclusion, nutrition, environmental safeguards, conflict sensitivity, and accountability.
• Represent the project in technical coordination meetings with local government, settlement leadership, and private‑sector actors.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad‑hoc technical reports and lead adaptive management and documentation of lessons learned.

Required profile

• Master’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, Rural Development, Agribusiness, Natural Resource Management, or a related field.
• 8–10 years of progressive experience in agricultural livelihoods, climate‑smart agriculture, value‑chain development, or refugee/host‑community programming.
• Demonstrated experience working in refugee settlements or refugee‑hosting districts in Uganda.

Required skills

• Climate‑smart agriculture
• Value‑chain development
• Agricultural extension
• Sustainable land management
• Farmer group formation and cooperative development