Rural Development Advisor on Forestry and Agroforestry in the Coffee value chain job at GIZ | Apply Now

Specific Tasks

The Rural Development Advisor performs the following tasks:

Knowledge and advisory services

• Provide technical expertise and advisory services to coffee producers, cooperatives, forest owners to ensure full compliance with the EUDR.

• Promote agroforestry strategies that align coffee production with deforestation-free and sustainable practices.

• Lead capacity-building initiatives for stakeholders, focusing on sustainable coffee value chains, forest conservation, and collaborative forest management.

• Provide advisory services on the complexities of forest ownership in Uganda, including communal, private, and public ownership structures to identify their roles in supporting EUDR compliance efforts and conservation goals.

• Collaborate with relevant government bodies to strengthen regulatory frameworks and practices.

• Advise on innovative incentive schemes for forest conservation related to coffee production, such as payment for ecosystem services (PES), carbon credits, and agroforestry-related incentives for farmers.

• Advise on integrate economic and social benefits of forest conservation, ensuring livelihoods for local communities are maintained and enhanced.

Partnership coordination

• Cooperate and maintain regular contact with relevant parties from local government, civil society, research institutes, private sector and international agencies.

• Participate and contribute to relevant processes, fora, events and meetings on the national and sub-national level.

• Support the planning and implementation of study tours, visiting delegations, exchange visits, missions and other official events as required.

Project coordination

• Support to develop an adapted a Theory of Change, overall workplan and annual workplans.

• Support the preparation of terms of reference for service contracts or financing agreements in line with GIZ rules and regulations and supervise contracted third parties.

• Coordinate the implementation of project activities with members of the steering team, partners and contracted third parties.

• Provide monitoring data and contextual knowledge to contribute to reporting and public and internal communication.

• Organize internal and external events and meetings.

Other Duties/Additional Tasks

• Perform other duties and tasks at the request of management.