Associate Program Officer (APO) – Field Monitoring & Consortia Coordination – Tanzania

Location: Dar es Salam, Tanzania

AGRA and its Work to Transform Agriculture

AGRA is an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards inclusive agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We do this by empowering the continent’s 33 million smallholder farming households to transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to profitable businesses. The continent’s farmers regularly face challenges, and we aspire to provide uniquely African solutions that respond to their agricultural and environmental challenges, leading to increased harvests for reduced hunger and more income.

Working in alignment with the development priorities of our focus countries, we enable farmers to access improved and high-yielding seeds, gain knowledge on sustainable farming, and linkages to profitable markets. In our work, we aspire to build the alliances, partnerships, and networks required to drive an inclusive agricultural transformation. We work with our partners to create an equitable youth-friendly environment that harnesses the youth dividend on the continent to drive growth and facilitate open employment opportunities for young women and men. We achieve our key objectives through a focus on the following four areas of intervention:

1. Policy and state capability – We support governments in creating an enabling environment for private sector involvement in agricultural transformation.
2. Seed systems – We trigger higher productivity by increasing the availability and access to improved seeds by farmers allowing them to increase their harvests for food security and better incomes.
3. Sustainable farming – We support farmers in building resilient farming systems for sustained high yields through interventions such as mechanization and irrigation.
4. Inclusive markets and trade – We work to increase the linkages between farmers, and other market actors for a positive, sustained cycle of commercialization and reinvestment.
5. Youth, Gender, and Inclusiveness – We enable women and youth to contribute to and benefit from agriculture for their economic empowerment.

Why Join Us?

People are the heartbeat of our organization and remain the true drivers of our delivery, impact, and success. We have cultivated a workplace that fuels Depth in Collaboration, Excellence in Execution, Constructive Engagements, and a spirit of being Increasingly Entrepreneurial; all underpinned by our cherished I-RISE Values (Integrity, Respect, Innovation, Stewardship and Equity)

We work with incredible people and partners who have roots in farming communities across the African continent combined with an inclusive, diverse, and talented workforce from over 25 nationalities. Our commitment to a call to action goes beyond ourselves as we arise to catalyze African Food Systems transformation and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

We are looking for people who are passionate about being part of a mission-driven team that is making a real difference on the continent; love to work on cutting edge Ag technologies; and able to grow their skills, expertise, and experience career growth, while enjoying very competitive compensation and benefits.

Are you ready to embark on this exciting transformative journey with us?

The Position

Associate Program Officer (APO) – Field Monitoring & Consortia Coordination – Tanzania

The role acts as both a field verification officer and a coordination link across Tanzania’s YEFFA consortia. 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 CPL, SPOs, and PMO. S/he will enhance consortium 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.

S/he will be a reliable field monitoring and coordinated support across multiple implementing consortia. The role ensures closer visibility into implementation quality, validates Youth-in-Work and YDnF results, and helps reduce delays in grant execution and partner performance. It supports AGRA’s decentralization approach by giving real-time insight into field realities and enabling quicker corrective action. The APO contributes directly to YEFFA’s acceleration plan by improving reporting consistency, supporting inclusion and safeguarding standards, and ensuring alignment with the Country Acceleration Plan.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct routine and ad-hoc field monitoring visits across all consortium 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 Country Programs Lead(CPL), Senior Program Officer (SPO), and Program Management Unit(PMU to support decision-making.
• Review grantee tools, attendance lists, evidence documents and escalate inconsistencies.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks affecting YiW pace and recommend course-corrective actions.
• Support CPL and SPO in coordinating multiple partners to align workplans.
• Ensure consortium-level reporting is harmonized and submitted on time.
• Track cross-partner dependencies and help resolve misaligned field activities.
• Maintain regular communication channels among consortium 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.
• Coordinate high-level field visits involving donors, PMU, and AGRA leadership.
• Promote inclusion and safeguarding compliance by sensitizing partners and reporting breaches.
• Support youth and women groups to navigate opportunities and link with service providers.
• 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 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.
• MEL, project management, or data collection certification preferred.
• Experience in field monitoring, community-level program implementation, or partner coordination.
• Experience working with youth programs, agribusinesses, SMEs, cooperatives, or value chain actors preferred.
• Practical experience collecting, verifying, and reporting field data.
• Knowledge of Tanzania’s agricultural sector and youth employment landscape.

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.

Please quote the job reference number in the subject line of the application e-mail.

Applications must be received on or before 17 th March 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.

AGRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer