Project Coordinator - Livelihood & Resilience

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning, Coordination, Implementation and Technical Guidance

• Carry out community-based targeting and registration of smallholder farmers in collaboration with WFP and county technical departments.
• Liaise with partners to prepare guiding materials on key technical approaches, including value chain development, market systems strengthening, financial services access, and climate-smart production.
• Lead the coordination and implementation of all Market Systems Development (MSD) interventions, focusing on access to inputs, financial services, and value chains.
• Ensure integration of market systems with climate-smart agriculture, nutrition, gender, and resilience components to achieve holistic project impact.
• Collaborate with the Program Officer (Disaster Management) to ensure compliance with donor guidelines, quality standards, and timely delivery.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement with county governments (Makueni and Kitui), donors, private sector actors, and other partners through Business-to-Business (B2B) meetings, agribusiness fairs, and field days.
• Support youth, women smallholder farmers, and Farmer Service Centers (FSCs) to participate in agricultural fairs to showcase innovations and build market linkages.
• Monitor budgeted resources for market systems activities in collaboration with the Grants Finance Officer to ensure efficient utilization.
• Develop and distribute technical materials on value chain development, market systems strengthening, pro-smallholder procurement, and business development to partners.
• Promote strategies for youth and women engagement in sustainable income generation through climate-smart value chains and inclusive business models (e.g., school feeding programs).
• Support post-harvest practice improvements, climate-resilient value chains, and access to gender-inclusive financial services.

Quality Assurance - Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Budget Utilization

• Work with the MEA&L Coordinator and stakeholders to implement monitoring and evaluation tools for MSD and Livelihood Value Chain Development (LVCD).
• Develop a monitoring plan for MSD/LVCD interventions, capturing data on market linkages, business model adoption, and value chain performance using WVK’s DM&E systems (e.g., Horizon).
• Adhere to PSC and County PSC decisions, ensuring alignment with project design, Kenyan regulations, and donor standards.
• Track expenditure levels and value for money for market systems activities, maintaining high financial accountability.
• Compile monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, highlighting success stories of market access and private sector engagement.
• Collaborate with the communications department to document innovations, such as outcomes from B2B meetings and mindset change dialogues.
• Conduct regular progress reviews with partners to address technical issues like post-harvest loss management and food safety.
• Support measurements, baselines, assessments, and evaluations, ensuring integration of livelihoods with natural resource management, gender, advocacy, and policy.
• Work closely with the Senior Manager (DMT) to maintain controls for effective, timely, and compliant project delivery.

Advocacy, Strategic Partnerships, Linkages and Network Development

• Engage county governments to leverage resources for program sustainability, advocating for policies supporting CSA and nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
• Participate in National and County Sector Technical Working Groups to promote pro-smallholder policies.
• Build partnerships with private sector actors, financial institutions, and government bodies for technical capacity development in CSA, inputs, and financial services.
• Contribute to agricultural and food safety policy formulation to support school feeding programs and other markets.
• Support context-specific media communications and keep stakeholders informed of laws, policies, and budget changes affecting agriculture.

Capacity Development

• Build the capacity of smallholder farmers, FSCs, aggregators, and farmer organizations in CSA, market systems, leadership, financial literacy, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
• Develop inclusive training curricula on CSA, Agri-Nutrition, gender roles, and procurement processes for youth, women, and persons with disabilities (PWDs).
• Establish sustainable capacity-building methodologies like Training of Trainers (ToT) and community dialogue forums.
• Support local institutions, including Voluntary Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and FSCs, for long-term sustainability.