Field Coordinator – Economic Empowerment and Resilience 3 jobs at AICT-MUD, Musoma Mara November 2026

Field Coordinator – Economic Empowerment and Resilience

Africa Inland Church Tanzania – Diocese of Mara & Ukerewe (AICT-MUD)

Job vacancy announcement

Project: Integrated Climate Smart, Food Security and Resilience Livelihood (ICFL) Project (2027–2031).

1. Background

Africa Inland Church Tanzania (AICT) is an evangelical church registered in 1965. The Diocese of Mara and Ukerewe, commonly known as MUD or AICT-Mara, was established in 1993 and is located in the northern part of Tanzania. The Diocese operates across nine administrative districts: Musoma Municipal Council, Musoma District Council, Butiama District Council, Bunda District Council, Bunda Town Council, Rorya District Council, Tarime District Council, Tarime Town Council, Serengeti District Council, and the Ukerewe Islands.

In addition to its evangelical mission, AICT-Mara, in collaboration with development partners, implements various community development programmes aimed at empowering communities to address economic, health, educational, and socio-cultural challenges. Through capacity-building initiatives and the promotion of sustainable development approaches, the Diocese supports communities in strengthening their resilience, addressing their own development needs, and improving their livelihoods.

2. Project overview

With approval from its funding partner, World Renew Tanzania, AICT-MUD plans to scale up the five-year Integrated Climate Smart, Food Security and Resilience Livelihood (ICFL) Project, covering the period 2027–2031.

The project aims to improve household food security, nutrition, sustainable livelihoods, and climate resilience among vulnerable smallholder farming households across the Mara Region, with a particular focus on Butiama District Council, Bunda Town Council, and Serengeti District Council.

The project will promote integrated and sustainable approaches to food security and livelihood improvement, including Conservation Agriculture, Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), Nutrition, and Gender and Development.

3. Vacancy announcement

To support the successful implementation of the project and achievement of its intended objectives, the Management of Africa Inland Church Tanzania – Diocese of Mara and Ukerewe (AICT-MUD) invites applications from qualified, competent, committed, and motivated individuals to fill the following position:

Position: Field Coordinator – Economic Empowerment and Resilience

• Number of Positions: 3

• Project: Integrated Climate Smart, Food Security and Resilience Livelihood (ICFL) Project.

• Duty Station: Musoma Municipality, with frequent travel to project implementation areas across the Mara Region.

• Contract Type: Full-time

• Contract Duration: One year, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

• Commencement Date: January 2027

4. Purpose of the position

The Field Coordinator – Economic Empowerment and Resilience will be responsible for mobilizing communities, facilitating farmer training, and coordinating the day-to-day implementation of agricultural and livelihood activities within assigned project areas.

The position will focus on promoting Conservation Agriculture, sustainable agricultural practices, improved food security, environmental conservation, economic empowerment, livelihood development and resilience. The successful candidates will work closely with farmers, community groups, local government authorities, church leaders, and other project stakeholders to ensure effective implementation and achievement of project targets.

5. Key duties and responsibilities

Field Coordinators – Economic Empowerment and Resilience will:

• Implement project activities within assigned districts in accordance with approved project proposals, work plans, and implementation guidelines.

• Train smallholder farmers and link them with information systems to provide them with farming information, marketplace access, mobile accessibility, farmer profiling and training.

• Follow up of the former communities which will build on existing enterprise experience by improving productivity, enterprise management, crops and livestock disease prevention, feed and market systems and by mentoring households in new communities.

• Provide more intensive technical support to establish viable enterprises in farmers households and progressively move toward independent management.

• Work with former communities to support them to refine and demonstrate successful nutrition-sensitive practices, while new communities will receive structured introductory support to establish the foundations for household dietary diversification.

Gender empowerment

• Ensure gender approach forms part of the project’s scaling and sustainability strategy, where Former ICFL communities will provide practical examples, peer mentoring and locally tested approaches to gender transformation, while new communities will adapt these approaches to their own social context.

• Will work with the former communities, with a focus of deepening women’s and youth participation in existing enterprises, leadership structures and value chains and documenting successful livelihood models.

• Will work with former communities to ensure a focus on deepening and institutionalizing positive changes already initiated through Champions, gender dialogues, VSLAs and household decision-making approaches. Successful practices will be documented and shared with new communities.

• New communities will receive more intensive foundational support to identify local barriers, engage women and men in dialogue and integrate gender and social inclusion from the beginning of implementation.

• Will coordinate women and deliberately support them to access training, leadership, productive assets, financial services and market opportunities, while men and community leaders will be engaged as partners in positive change, particularly around shared household responsibilities and decision-making.

• Will ensure intentional inclusion of youth, people with disabilities and other groups facing additional barriers and support them according to their needs and capacities.

• To incorporate gender responsiveness into how activities are designed and delivered across both former and new communities, including timing, location, participation methods and consideration of women’s workload, mobility and caregiving responsibilities.

• Ensuring over time, Champion Farmers, community structures, VSLAs and local leaders will increasingly take responsibility for sustaining dialogue, accountability and positive household practices, reducing reliance on project staff. This will enable the project’s Phase II to move beyond delivering gender activities towards embedding more equitable relationships and decision-making within household and community systems.

Conservation Agriculture and VSLAs Engagements

• Promote equitable participation in VSLAs, Conservation Agriculture committees, learning groups and other community structures and will monitor participation and benefits by sex and age where appropriate, while assessing and monitoring changes in decision making, access to and control over productive resources and income, leadership, workload sharing and participation in economic opportunities and adjust implementation accordingly.

• Will support former communities to build existing group structures and market experience to strengthen aggregation and act as learning sites for collective marketing, while new communities will be introduced to basic market planning and gradually linked to more established farmer groups, buyers and aggregation systems as production volumes increase.

• They will support new communities to establish the foundations for participation through targeted skills development, groups formation, financial inclusion and enterprise orientation.

• Organize and facilitate farmer field training sessions, community meetings, workshops, and other project-related learning activities.

• Monitor project implementation progress, collect field-level data, and assess changes in agricultural practices and livelihood conditions among beneficiaries.

• Serve as a link between the organization, farmers, local government authorities, agricultural research institutions, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Promote environmental conservation and sustainable agricultural practices, including agroforestry, soil and water conservation, and other climate-smart agricultural interventions.

• Collaborate with the Project Officer – Economic Empowerment and Resilience and other project staff in coordinating and implementing day-to-day Conservation Agriculture and other agricultural development activities.

• Mobilize and support farmers and community groups to participate actively in project activities, ensuring that annual targets are achieved as outlined in the approved project proposal.

• Mobilize farmers to form groups, establish and maintain Conservation Agriculture demonstration plots and Farmer Field Schools (FFS), and strengthen their capacity to share knowledge and good practices within their communities.

Implementation, monitoring, reporting and networking

• Provide regular implementation reports to the Project Officer, highlighting achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for improvement.

• Work closely with the Project Officer and other team members in planning and facilitating workshops, seminars, training sessions, and community engagements in churches and targeted communities.

• Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual project reports, ensuring that implementation progress, achievements, challenges, and other relevant information are properly documented.

• Follow up on agreed action points from project review meetings and ensure their timely implementation.

• Ensure that project resources and expenditures are utilized responsibly and in accordance with approved budgets, donor guidelines, and organizational financial procedures.

• Ensure that all project expenditures are supported by accurate, valid, and properly maintained documentation in compliance with donor and organizational requirements.

• Ensure the proper use, management, security, and maintenance of project and organizational assets, including motorcycles, computers, computers, laptops, furniture, office equipment, files, reports, and other project documents.

• Collaborate with the Project Officer and relevant management teams in developing concept notes and project proposals to support resource mobilization and programme expansion.

• Work closely with pastors, church leaders, and local church structures in project implementation areas to promote effective church engagement and ensure that project activities respect church values, principles, and established procedures.

• Establish and maintain positive working relationships and effective communication networks with communities, government authorities, development partners, donors, institutions, and other stakeholders.

• Represent the organization at relevant project meetings, workshops, forums, and other engagements as delegated and approved by the Diocesan leadership.

• Perform any other relevant duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Diocesan leadership or immediate supervisor.

6. Required education, qualifications and experience

Applicants should possess:

• A bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Agricultural Extension, Development Studies, Agribusiness, or another relevant discipline.

• At least three (3) years of relevant working experience in NGO-based projects, particularly in agricultural development, rural development, community mobilization, or livelihood improvement programmes.

• Strong report-writing, communication, and community mobilization skills.

• Ability to work in remote rural areas with minimum supervision.

• Knowledge of Tanzania’s development and agricultural policy environment.

• Understanding of farmer group dynamics, collective marketing, aggregation, and market linkages.

• A valid motor vehicle driving license.

7. Skills and competencies

The ideal candidates should demonstrate:

• Practical knowledge and experience in community-based development approaches.

• Strong negotiation, networking, and stakeholder relationship management skills.

• Experience in building the capacity of community organizations, farmer groups, and individuals.

• Knowledge of participatory farmer training and extension approaches.

• Strong project planning, coordination, and implementation skills.

• Competence in data collection, entry, management, and analysis.

• Experience in facilitating field-level training, workshops, and community meetings.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Kiswahili and English.

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and support colleagues in different project activities.

• Creativity, innovation, and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to adapt to changing working environments and project requirements.

• Self-motivation, commitment, integrity, and passion for rural community development.

8. How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents:

• An application letter clearly indicating the position being applied for.

• A detailed and updated Curriculum Vitae (CV), including contact details of at least three professional referees.

• Copies of relevant academic and professional certificates.

• A copy of the birth certificate.

Applications should be submitted electronically to the following email address:

Email: aictmara@yahoo.com

Application Deadline: 23 November 2026, at 4:30 p.m. (East Africa Time).

Applicants must clearly indicate the position they are applying for in the subject line of their application email. Applications that do not specify the position applied for will not be considered.

Important notes

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Applicants who do not receive feedback within one month after the application deadline should consider their applications unsuccessful.

• AICT-MUD is an equal opportunity employer and encourages qualified candidates who meet the stated requirements to apply.

For the attention of:

THE DIOCESAN SECRETARY
Africa Inland Church Tanzania (AICT)
Diocese of Mara and Ukerewe (AICT-MUD)
Musoma, Tanzania.