Who We Are
Action Against Hunger leads the global movement to end hunger. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 28 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 55 countries, our 8,990 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. We strive to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good.
Action Against Hunger USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network. As an independent NGO, Action Against Hunger USA currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Haiti.
The Project Manager/Team Leader (Contingent upon confirmation of funding)
Purpose of the Role:
The Project Manager/Team Leader will provide overall technical leadership for the project, ensuring integrated delivery across crop, livestock, beneficial insect, sustainable land management, market linkage, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and farmer institutional development interventions. The role will coordinate technical planning, quality assurance, government engagement, and field-level technical backstopping.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and implementation of climate-smart agriculture interventions across assigned refugee settlements and host communities.
- Coordinate technical specialists and field teams to ensure integrated delivery across all selected value chains.
- Ensure that Farmer Field School and Farmer Institutional Development approaches are applied consistently and effectively.
- Support development of workplans, technical training packages, demonstration plot plans, input distribution plans, and field supervision schedules.
- Provide technical oversight for farmer group formation, strengthening, cooperative development, and market-readiness.
- Ensure integration of cross-cutting issues, including gender, youth inclusion, disability inclusion, nutrition, environmental safeguards, conflict sensitivity, and accountability.
- Represent the project in technical coordination meetings with all stakeholders like local government, settlement leadership, private sector actors.
- Support preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc technical reports.
- Lead technical reflection, adaptive management, documentation of lessons, and preparation for joint supervision missions.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
- Master’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, Rural Development, Agribusiness, Natural Resource Management, or a related field.
- At least 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.
- Strong experience with farmer group approaches, Farmer Field Schools, cooperative development, input systems, market linkages, and climate-resilient production.
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary technical teams.
- Prior engagement with government-led or World Bank-funded agricultural projects is an added advantage.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, Rural Development, Agribusiness, Natural Resource Management, or a related field
- At least 8-10 years of progressive experience in agricultural livelihoods, climate-smart agriculture, value chain development, or refugee/host community programming
- Experience working in refugee settlements or refugee-hosting districts in Uganda
- Experience with farmer group approaches, Farmer Field Schools, cooperative development, input systems, market linkages, and climate-resilient production
- Experience managing multidisciplinary technical teams
- Experience with government-led or World Bank-funded agricultural projects
What We Do
Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger and malnutrition. Its mission is to save children’s and families’ lives while helping communities become self-sufficient and prosper. The organization delivers nutrition and health programs, food-security and livelihood support, clean water and sanitation, emergency response, and advocacy across more than 55 countries, reaching millions of people each year worldwide.
