Intervention Officer at Palladium Group

Responsibilities
The State Intervention Officer will be responsible for the following:

• Assist in local stakeholder analysis of selected commodity chains and identify and establish contact with potential agents of change.
• When required, liaise with the MERL (Monitoring Evaluation Results and Learning) team through the Senior Intervention Officer on the development and implementation of appropriately tailored research tools and methods for the collection and collation of relevant information from the field.
• Assist in collecting baseline data related to interventions targeted for study or implementation by the project.
• Assist the Senior Intervention Officer in the development of relevant grant agreements, Collaboration Agreements, ToRs and any other administrative and managerial requirements for the interventions.
• Conduct regular field visits to ensure proper implementation of activities.
• Remain aware of, and report to Senior Intervention Officer on, developments in the relevant sectors/markets/commodity chains.
• Help identify market failures and pressure points for addressing them; help identify ways to render a given market more functional and efficient, in a manner that will benefit the poor.
• Provide weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports on programme interventions where required by Senior Intervention Officer, including impact assessment reports. Also provide relevant ongoing intervention activity feedback including formal and informal feedback from the field.
• At field level represent the programme in selected markets, displaying courtesy, tact, consideration and discretion in all interactions with partners, other members of the programme, and with the public.
• Take part in facilitating and managing the work of partners/co-facilitators/service providers of programme and ensure “value for money” for the tasks given.
• Support the Portfolio Manager, Senior Intervention Manager and MERL staff by being the linkage with markets, and interventions for the delivery of programme action plans and milestones.