Agri-TVET Officer

The Agri-TVET Officer supports the ARISE-GREEN project by providing hands-on implementation, monitoring, and administrative support at the county/center level in South Sudan. The role involves direct execution of training schedules, tracking student progress, verifying equipment deployment, and engaging local community networks to strengthen inclusive, accredited, and climate-responsive Agri-Technical and Vocational Education and Training systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily on-site operational support to target public TVET centers and Centres of Excellence to ensure training routines run smoothly.
• Monitor the delivery of practical Competency-Based Training (CBT) modules, ensuring instructors have the necessary training materials, logs, and utilities.
• Assist in organizing capacity-building workshops and refresher training tracks for local TVET instructors.
• Verify that target facilities, workshops, and agricultural demonstration plots are maintained safely, cleanly, and in accordance with project standards.
• Track the daily delivery and proper inventory management of specialized technical tools, solar assets, and agricultural inputs at the center level.
• Conduct community-level mobilization and enrollment campaigns to recruit vulnerable youth, safeguarding target inclusive quotas.
• Act as the direct focal point for student welfare, maintaining daily attendance logs, progress sheets, and dropping-out prevention follow-ups.
• Assist in conducting the verification process for the safe integration of UNMISS-referred high-risk youth and ex-combatants into the technical centers.
• Assist the MEAL team in deploying graduate tracking tools to monitor employment status and income levels 6–12 months post-graduation.
• Routine visit and monitor field sites where students are placed for Work-Based Learning (WBL), internships, and private-sector apprenticeships.
• Collect feedback from local hosting MSMEs and commercial farms regarding student performance, safety, and skills gaps.
• Assist in compiling verified beneficiary lists for the distribution of specialized self-employment Start-up Productivity Kits.
• Supervise the physical verification, assembly, and secure handover of Start-up Kits to certified graduates, ensuring all assets are signed for transparently.
• Maintain close, respectful relationships with Boma and Payam-level authorities, youth associations, women’s groups, and traditional leadership.
• Represent the field team in village-level or facility-level coordination meetings under the guidance of the Agri-TVET Coordinator.
• Flag cross-consortium field overlaps or localized operational friction with the parallel NRC-led field teams immediately to the Coordinator for resolution.
• Collect routine disaggregated data regarding project indicators and input them into primary tracking sheets in strict compliance with data protection rules.
• Immediately report any child safeguarding, protection, or gender-based discrimination concerns observed within the training centers or apprenticeship sites.
• Draft high-quality weekly field updates and monthly narrative reports capturing quantitative achievements, qualitative human-interest stories, challenges, and immediate field requirements.
• Monitor field-level alignment with the European Union Communication and Visibility Plan, ensuring posters, signs, and branded tools are properly displayed and utilized.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in Agriculture/Agribusiness, Vocational Training, Agronomy, Community Development, Social Sciences, or a relevant practical technical field.
• Minimum of 3 years of direct field experience implementing community-based livelihoods, technical vocational education (TVET), or rural agricultural projects in South Sudan.
• Practical familiarity with the local socioeconomic and cultural context of Eastern Equatoria State (Torit, Magwi, or Kapoeta) is highly required.
• Basic understanding of inclusive education principles, youth employment pathways, or market-driven agricultural value chains.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with vulnerable youth populations, including displaced persons or low-literacy learners.
• Familiarity with basic data collection methods and routine report writing.
• Proven capability to establish trust and maintain transparent relationships with youth, community structures, and institutional staff.
• Strong ability to track inventories, manage multiple task lists, and coordinate moving parts in a busy field setting.
• Resourcefulness in addressing day-to-day field bottlenecks independently.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Full operational proficiency in spoken Juba Arabic and localized languages of the target county (e.g., Lotuko, Acholi, or Toposa) is required.

Skills

• Community-based Livelihoods Implementation
• Technical Vocational Education Training
• Rural Agricultural Project Management
• Local Socioeconomic Context Knowledge
• Inclusive Education
• Youth Employment Pathways
• Market-driven Agricultural Value Chains
• Working with Vulnerable Children
• Data Collection
• Report Writing
• Inventory tracking
• Task Coordination
• Field Operations Support
• Trust Building with Communities
• Agricultural Training Delivery
• Student Progress Monitoring
• Equipment Deployment Verification
• Community Engagement
• Climate-responsive TVET

Languages

English, Juba Arabic, Lotuko, Acholi, Toposa