Associate Program Officer - Technical Field Monitoring, Chimoio at AGRA

Maputo, Zona Sul, Mozambique -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Jul, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Apr, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Field monitoring, Project management, Data collection, Monitoring and evaluation, Agribusiness, Stakeholder coordination, Reporting, Financial analysis, Youth development, Gender-responsive implementation, Risk assessment, Data verification, Capacity building, Strategic planning, Communication, Adaptive management

Industry

Non-profit Organizations

Description

The role will deepen field-level monitoring, strengthen grantee performance, and accelerate youth-in-work (YiW) outcomes in Mozambique. S/he will be responsible for supporting the implementation of Youth Entrepreneurship for the Future of Food and Agriculture (YEFFA) program and coordinating field operations across Mozambique’s YEFFA partners. The role harmonizes partner workplans, ensures timely reporting, and facilitates cross-partner alignment for improved delivery. It synthesizes field intelligence, identifies risks early, and escalates issues to the Country Programs Lead (CPL) and Project Management Unit (PMU). The Associate Program Officer enhances YEFFA partners' collaboration, strengthens communication with AGRA technical teams, and supports adaptive management. Overall, this role ensures that field implementation remains coherent, data-driven, and aligned with YEFFA’s performance and results expectations. Key Duties and Responsibilities: * Conduct routine and ad-hoc field monitoring visits across all YEFFA partners to assess delivery quality. * Verify beneficiaries, results and reported outcomes through spot-checks, interviews, focus groups, and triangulation of data. * Monitor partner adherence to youth-intentional and gender-responsive implementation standards. * Track expenditure-linked activities at field level and highlight risks affecting disbursement or progress. * Provide accurate field intelligence to CPL, PO, and PMU to support decision-making. * Review grantee tools, attendance lists, evidence documents and escalating inconsistencies. * Identify systemic bottlenecks affecting YiW pace and recommend course-corrective actions. * Support financial report quality and expense verifications on a monthly basis. * Support CPL, POs and SPO in coordinating multiple partners to align workplans. * Ensure partners level (including consortium) reporting is harmonized and submitted on time. * Track cross-partner dependencies and help resolve misaligned field activities. * Facilitate joint planning and quarterly reflection sessions. * Maintain regular communication channels among implementing partners, ensuring timely information flow. * Facilitate joint field learning sessions, exchange visits, and problem-solving clinics. * Strengthen relationships with LGAs and local ecosystem actors (youth offices, wards, cooperatives) to unlock institutional support. * Enable AGRA business lines (Sustainable farming, Seeds, MEL, Markets, Inclusive Finance, PSC) to provide targeted backstopping. * Coordinate high-level field visits involving donors, PMO, and AGRA leadership. * Promote inclusion (youth and gender) and safeguarding compliance by sensitizing partners and reporting breaches. * Support youth and women groups to navigate opportunities and link with service providers. * Explore and link emerging MSMEs to financial service providers and monitor growth progress * Produce consolidated monthly field monitoring reports integrating insights across all consortia. * Track partner progress against milestones, grant budgets, work opportunity indicators, and Schedule C commitments. * Support MEL teams during outcome surveys, verification missions, and dashboard updates. * Ensure accuracy of data uploaded into MEL systems and shared knowledge repositories. * Maintain an issues log, escalate critical delivery risks, and follow through corrective actions. * Support CPL with inputs for quarterly synthesis notes, donor reports, and Annual Report sections. * Coordinate data and insights required for Pause & Reflect sessions, impact pathway reviews, and adaptive planning. Key Qualifications and Experience required: * Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Development Studies, Economics, or related field. * Monitoring & Evaluation and Learning, project management, or data collection certification preferred. * Experience working with youth programs, agribusinesses, SMEs, cooperatives, or value chain actors preferred. * Practical experience collecting, verifying, and reporting field data. * Knowledge of Mozambique’s agricultural sector and youth employment landscape. * Ability to design practical, context-appropriate technical assistance for implementing partners. Behavioral Competencies * Ability to drive collaboration through inclusive and agile teaming, breaking siloes, sharing information celebrating joint successes. * Ability to execute excellently by delivering high-quality work at speed, committing to decisions and plans, and increasing accountability to deliver impact at scale. * Ability to be sincerely constructive in interactions with others by demonstrating trust, sincerity, and care, in recognition of our joint purpose. * Ability be increasingly entrepreneurial by breaking hierarchies, embracing learning and innovation to unlock the potential of diversity and ideas. If you believe you are the right candidate for this position, kindly submit your application with a detailed CV (including your e-mail and telephone contacts) to https://ekjd.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/jobs [https://ekjd.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/jobs]. Applications must be received on or before 20th April 2026. Due to the large volumes of applications we usually receive, we will only be able to contact those candidates who are shortlisted. For more information on the AGRA, visit www.agra.org [http://www.agra.org].

Responsibilities

The Associate Program Officer will conduct routine field monitoring to assess delivery quality and verify outcomes across YEFFA partners in Mozambique. They are responsible for harmonizing partner workplans, identifying systemic bottlenecks, and providing field intelligence to support data-driven decision-making.