• Contribute to the development and implementation of the country-level strategies, standards, tools, and best practices that effectively engage partners, donors and governments in landscape restoration.
• Together with key country program staff, map key public and private stakeholders, including donors;  assess national climate change and restoration commitments; analyze  agricultural/environmental/climate policies and programs;
• Together with team, contribute to the development of a value proposition for CRS landscape restoration approaches.
• Identify and represent CRS within key national and regional platforms dedicated to landscape restoration and related areas. Develop strong relationships with key government actors. Where platforms don’t exist, identify and build coalitions of like-minded multisectoral actors to develop and operationalize strategies to scale landscape restoration.
• Contribute to knowledge management and learning,, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, supporting communication strategies, research and internal report development.
• Use data to understand obstacles to uptake and related enabling environment/policy constraints. Build partner advocacy and representational capacity to connect local action to national goals to influence change. Support programmatic team to evaluate and address issues related to the enabling environment.
• Represent CRS at national and regional restoration events, seeking out speaking opportunities/panel participation. Represent CRS at global events as appropriate.
• Contribute to regional and CP efforts to pre-position CRS for growth opportunities in Landscape Restoration. Lead or contribute to the development of the technical design for large and/or complex proposals, including defining appropriate monitoring systems and indicators. Advise country teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ Landscape Restoration approach.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in landscape restoration programming for CRS staff and platform members through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

· Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.

· Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment

· Strong written and oral communication skills

· Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills

· Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Natural Resource Management, Agronomy, Agro ecology, agricultural economics, policy or related field(s)
• Minimum of five years relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, government institution or regional body; minimum of three years working for programming interventions in Sustainable Agriculture or Natural Resource Management.
• Experience and understanding of national government institutions, internal workings and agricultural and environmental policies.
• Significant leadership experience and capacity to build relationships leading to alliances. Ability to motivate and bring together diverse actors.
• Experience and skills in networking and facilitating inter-institutional coordination among donors, peer organizations, faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles, with emphasis in the agricultural sector.
• Well-connected and knowledgeable of key actors among donors, public sector, farmer organizations and private sector.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including applying data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.[PL1]
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

· Integrity

· Continuous Improvement & Innovation

· Builds Relationships

· Develops Talent

· Strategic Mindset

· Accountability & Stewardship

  Required Languages – English and Chichewa fluency required.

Travel – Must be willing and able to travel up to 30 %.

Supervisory Responsibilities None

Key Working Relationships: 

Internal Key country staff, Senior and Regional Technical Advisors, SCP3 global team

External Will coordinate actions with diverse allies including Church partners, government Ministries and Agricultural Research organizations, think tanks, Academia, Private Sector, Donors and Multilateral institutions, financial institutions, Farmer organizations and Civil Society.