Deputy Team Leader

1. Support the Team Leader with day-to-day Project Management and Implementation Activities

• Collaborate with the team members, Government partners, provincial project management units, consultants, partners, and relevant stakeholders to execute the Work Plan and key milestones.
• Plans and assigns deliverables and activities, reviews their progress, and addresses deviations in terms of timelines and quality, based on project planning, deliverables agreed and budget set.
• Contribute to work planning and reporting, project closure and evaluation processes.
• Manage technical assistance, applying and adapting SNV approaches and tools.
• Timely identify and analyses risks/threats and makes sure relevant colleagues are informed, and update to the project risk register.

2. Project Technical Lead and Quality Assurance

• Ensure smooth delivery of the Gender Disability and social inclusion action plan and oversight of technical support provided by the project’s gender and disability specialists.
• Ensuring the smooth function and result outcomes from the project’s established MRV.
• Lead learning and aligning the compatibility of the project’s MRV versus the MRV of the 1 Million Hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice.

3. People Management & Team Leadership

• Guide, develop, coach, and motivate team members and support organizational recruitment and HR processes.
• Advise Team Leader and country management on contract conditions for consultants and Local Capacity Builders, within guidelines and project budget.

4. Analysis & Reporting

• Regularly write internal journal of project activities; key outcomes; lessons learnt and resolutions.
• Prepare monthly project updates and quarterly reports in accordance with SNV’s guidelines and requirements.
• Prepare bi-annual and annual reports as required by Donor; mobilize support from MEL/Com/Admin team as needed.

5. Knowledge Development

• Contributes to internal and external knowledge development, by full documentation and sharing of project insights and results.
• Develops knowledge by attending workshops and conferences. Ensures lessons learned are shared and applied in daily practice. When applicable, s/he can be appointed as (provincial) focal point of an expertise network.
• Contribute to SNV’s Carbon strategy and carbon working group.

6. Development relationship and networking

• Identify and engage private sector actors to build the market-based value chains in project areas.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with relevant local and national government agencies.
• Work closely with project staff including Agriculture Sector Leader, National Team Leader, project consultants and team members as well as project partners and local stakeholders.

7. Contract Management & Project Accounting related to activities in Dong Thap, Kien Giang and An Giang Provinces

• Identify, develop ToRs and collaborate with departments for consultant recruitment and management.
• Ensure sound financial management and compliance with donor and SNV policies and procedures. 
• Supports the Team Leader in budgeting and forecasting, and in risk management.

8. Other tasks as required by the Team Leader.

• Contribution to Programme Team business development.
• Contribution to organizational knowledge management.