At Utunzi Africa, we advance animal welfare as part of a broader sustainable development agenda in Kenya. We work with farmers, companies, governments, and communities to promote humane farming practices, strengthen animal welfare standards, support climate adaptation, advance environmental stewardship, and improve WASH outcomes. The County Project Lead will provide strategic and operational leadership for the CASHA project at the county level. The role is responsible for coordinating community mobilization, training delivery, stakeholder engagement, mentoring systems, market linkages, climate resilience interventions, and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
County-Level Project Leadership
- Lead planning, coordination, and implementation of CASHA activities within the assigned county.
- Develop detailed county work plans aligned with the 18-month project timeline.
- Ensure timely delivery of outputs including youth mobilization, training, business planning, and climate resilience activities.
- Represent Utunzi in county stakeholder forums and technical working groups.
Youth Mobilization & Selection
- Oversee establishment and coordination of Youths in specific counties.
- Supervise transparent beneficiary selection and onboarding processes.
- Ensure inclusive targeting of marginalized youth, including young women, and persons with disabilities.
- Oversee enterprise profiling and skills assessments of selected youth.
Training & Capacity Building
- Ensure quality implementation of climate-smart livestock production, business development, and gender-transformative training modules.
- Oversee demonstration plots and peer learning activities.
- Provide technical backstopping to Community-Based Facilitators (CBFs).
Enterprise Development & Market Linkages
- Coordinate business plan development support for youth entrepreneurs.
- Facilitate Business-to-Business (B2B) forums and buyer-seller engagements.
- Support formation and strengthening of producer groups and youth cooperatives.
- Ensure 70% of trained youth are linked to functional markets.
Climate Resilience & Innovation
- Oversee implementation of early warning systems and climate information dissemination.
- Support livestock insurance uptake initiatives.
- Coordinate community-led rangeland management and feed reserve establishment.
- Promote climate-smart pastoral practices among youth enterprises.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting
- Ensure accurate data collection and reporting on outputs and outcomes.
- Conduct monthly supervision visits to training groups.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly county progress reports.
- Support baseline, midline, and endline assessments.
Financial & Administrative Oversight
- Monitor county-level budget utilization.
- Ensure compliance with donor and organizational financial procedures.
- Oversee logistical arrangements for training and community engagement activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science, Livestock Production, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, Climate Change, or related field.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in development programming within ASAL (Arid and Semi-Arid Lands) counties.
- Demonstrated experience in livestock value chains, youth entrepreneurship, or pastoral development.
- Proven experience in stakeholder coordination and community mobilization.
- Experience managing field teams in remote or hardship locations.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter indicating preferred county, an updated CV (max 3 pages), copies of academic and professional certificates, and contact details of three referees to recruitment@utunziafrica.org. Use the subject line: County Project Lead – West Pokot.
