Focus of the Role:
Our Governance work supports the governments and leaders of fragile, developing, and emerging states to enhance their effectiveness. We are focused on helping governments and leaders make their vision for the development of their country a reality. We work in the centre of government and key line ministries and our work is shaped by national priorities.
To support this work we are currently searching for an experienced agriculture advisor will be an integral member of the Mozambique project team in the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. They will have responsibility for the development of TBI Mozambique’s Agriculture Work stream. The advisor will focus primarily on supporting the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security’s coordination (with other parts of government, value chain actors and development partners), planning and delivery capability. This work will include support for:
The Advisor will work in close collaboration with AGRA and other experts and stakeholders deployed to the Ministry, support sector coordination, planning and effective joint review processes of strategy and investment plans implementation.
The Advisor will also support the Government in its agriculture development policy, regulatory framework and institutional development. They will be embedded in the National Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation (DPCI) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.
They will work in close cooperation with the Country Head and members of the TBI Mozambique Team and members of TBI’s Inclusive Growth practice.
This will entail working in a collaborative and respectful manner; actively contributing to the delivery and success of the Mozambique project to build capacity in the Government of Mozambique; and feeding into the wider work and development of the TBI. He/she will develop and maintain close relationships with the Minister for Agriculture, most relevant institutional stakeholders in the sector and with other Ministries as well as develop close links with donors and with the diplomatic community. The post holder will report to the Mozambique Country Head.
It is also expected that the advisor will be required to make their expertise available to support TBI teams and Governments across Africa on agriculture issues. This is most likely to involve some support to our advisors and Governments in East and West Africa. This may involve occasional travel from Maputo.
TBI’s work in agriculture focuses on supporting governments to improve coordination and delivery around the implementation of a whole of sector approach that seeks to deliver agriculture transformation at a national or state level. TBI’s greatest value add is three-fold: first, being present in numerous parts of government and anchored in the Presidency, it can work on inter-ministerial coordination. Second, by bringing adaptive, flexible and responsive management and delivery skills to progressive and visionary leaders, it can improve the implementation capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and other key ministries and agencies. Third its model of support is best placed to enable visionary leaders in government and their technical teams to drive a coherent and holistic approach for agriculture transformation that can coordinate various development partners and actors. This can help speed up the implementation of National Agriculture Investment Plan (such as PEDSA in Mozambique), as called for by the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Plan.
TBI’s agriculture works aims to bring to governments the complement of management and delivery skills with skills that understand market systems, business and agriculture.
The advisor will be responsible for:
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About Tony Blair Institute for Global Change:
At the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change we are dedicated to making globalisation work for the many, not the few. We do this by helping countries, their people and their governments, address some of the most difficult challenges in the world today –beginning with those where we think we can break new ground, offering leaders new thinking and new approaches. Our staff – over200 of them, based all over the world – are working on some of the most intractable problems around issues of co-existence, governance, the peace process in the Middle East and renewing the centre.