Role overview
What you'll be stepping into
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership, Representation and EKN Ecosystem Engagement
Lead high-level strategic engagement with relevant line ministries and district local governments to strengthen the enabling environment for land tenure security, agricultural service delivery and natural resource management.
Promote collaboration, joint learning and coordinated planning with EKN-funded partner projects, ensuring that A-GRIP contributes to portfolio coherence and shared results.
Provide overall strategic direction for A-GRIP, ensuring alignment with the grant agreement, approved workplans, national priorities and EKN strategic objectives.
Serve as the primary external representative of A-GRIP with Government of Uganda institutions, national level, political and district leadership, development partners and strategic stakeholders as well as the donor.
Position A-GRIP clearly within the broader EKN-funded programme ecosystem, ensuring complementarity with farmer-facing partner programmes and promoting system-wide impact for smallholder farmers.
Programme Oversight, Results Delivery and Strategic Steering
Management
Maintain overall accountability for delivery against A-GRIP outcomes, milestones, targets, budgets, risk management, and donor commitments.
Provide strategic oversight across technical components, ensuring coherence between land tenure, agricultural governance, natural resource management and institutional strengthening interventions.
Lead annual and periodic, multi-stakeholder strategic planning processes, including workplans, budgets and adaptive adjustments in response to performance evidence and contextual changes.
Ensure that programme strategies strengthen public systems and services in ways that enable and reinforce farmer-level results achieved through the wider EKN ecosystem.
Identify and manage strategic risks, dependencies and opportunities, including those arising from coordination with government institutions and partner programmes.
Integrity
Showcases integrity standards as outlined in Cordaid's integrity policies. Fulfils integrity responsibilities as outlined in Cordaid's Integrity Framework and Standard Operating Procedures.
Actively contributes to a safe environment within their scope of influence by encouraging dialogue, trust, as well as understanding and adherence to Cordaid's integrity standards and procedures.
How to apply