Position: Innovations and New Initiatives Lead (Hot Job)

Job Description

• Identify and respond to opportunities for innovations, develop concepts, and plan for testing.
• Identify and engage strategic partner organizations for funding, collaboration, and implementation.
• Participate in the analysis, design (including Theory of Change), planning, and implementation of digital platform innovations.
  • Ensure and support development of project summaries, multi-year budgets in partnership with country staff and Heifer Labs.
  • Ensure and support development of project goals, product metrics, and MELS criteria in partnership with country staff and Heifer Labs.
  • Ensure quality, impact, scale, and efficiency of program goals and objectives.
• Support the design of digital transformation programming in coordination with the Heifer Labs team at HQ, country program team, and Asia area program team.
• Lead user research and human-centered design workshops with country program teams and the Asia area program, and cooperatives/farmers to support program design, development, and continuous improvement during implementation.
• Cultivate and coordinate partnership opportunities with appropriate stakeholders (government, for-profit, non-profit, etc.) to support project implementation.
• Develop a clear strategy and recommendations for process improvement and scale up.

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  Project Management (50%)

• Support high-quality resourcing, budgeting, project management and monitoring, communication, and reporting.
• Manage a portfolio of digital technologies which support implementation.
• Provide recommendations for process improvement and expanded/scaled implementation.
• Surface opportunities, issue(s)/constraints, and questions for testing throughout program implementation.
• Lead the day-to-day in-country implementation of disruptive innovation that will provide new ways of governance, economic support, and technical assistance to cooperatives/farmers.
• Provide input on the contextualization, adaptation, and/or development of new code of digital solutions in-step with both tech vendors and cooperatives/farmers.
• Support effective, timely, and high-quality project management with excellent delivery and collaboration among project stakeholders (internal and external).
• Curate detailed, high-quality, and shareable documentation of ongoing program methodology/pivots, lessons learned, impact, and opportunities for scale.
• Manage all stakeholders effectively (government, private sector, NGO, internal staff, etc.) and ensure clear roles and responsibilities.
• Ensure adherence to all legal processes, including but not limited to, procurement, MOUs, and ICAs.

Job Specification

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university plus a minimum of eight (8) years’ experience in a combination of agribusiness, agricultural economics, computer programming/information technologyor community development and agtech or a related technical expertise/discipline, plus a minimum of three (3) years’ experience in relevant product or project management.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking/Human Centered Design or other related project/product management certifications
• Supervisory experience.
• Strong working knowledge of blockchain technology, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs; working knowledge of tokenomics.
• Demonstrated experience in scaling up digital agtech solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in partnership development with government, agricultural, technology, and/or multilateral organizations.
• Demonstrated experience implementing digital solutions to smallholder farming communities/cooperatives.
• Knowledge of and experience with planning, monitoring, and evaluating projects.
• Knowledge of and skill in managing institutional and project budgets.
• Knowledge of and experience with or within community and grassroots organizations.
• Fluent in local language(s) and English, both spoken and written.

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To apply for this job please visit heifernepal.org.