Project Officer-Agriculture

This is a one-year fixed term opportunity to be based in Lusaka, Zambia. Renewal will be subject to availability of funding.

The Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all activities under the Cultivating Change Project in alignment with SIDA Phase 3 objectives and Oxfam’s guidelines.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and maintain effective relationships with project stakeholders, including government agencies, partner organizations, community leaders, and beneficiaries, to ensure collaboration and buy-in for project activities.
• Capacity Building: Identify capacity gaps among project staff, partners, and community members and design and deliver appropriate training and capacity-building interventions to enhance their skills and knowledge in sustainable agriculture, market access, and gender equality.
• Technical Support: Provide technical guidance and support to project staff and partners on best practices in sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, climate-smart technologies, and other relevant areas.
• Gender Mainstreaming: Ensure that gender considerations are integrated into all project activities and promote women’s participation and leadership in decision-making processes.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Develop and implement robust monitoring and evaluation systems to track project progress, measure impact, and identify lessons learned and best practices for continuous improvement.
• Reporting: Prepare timely and accurate narrative and financial reports for internal and external stakeholders, including donor reports, highlighting achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Knowledge Management: Facilitate the documentation and dissemination of project successes, case studies, and best practices to contribute to organizational learning and promote accountability and transparency.

What We Are Looking For

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Development Studies, Environmental Science, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in project management, preferably in the fields of agriculture, food security, or rural development.
• Proven experience in working with international NGOs, donors, government agencies, and community-based organizations.
• Strong understanding of gender issues and demonstrated experience in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in development projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.
• Solid knowledge of monitoring and evaluation principles and experience in developing and implementing M&E frameworks and tools.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and meet tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of local languages spoken in Zambia is an asset.

We Offer

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits.

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more.

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.

How To Apply

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About Us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

A Thriving Diverse Oxfam

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To Do That

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.