National Community Volunteer

About this role

The World Food Programme (WFP) Tanzania is recruiting National United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) to support its Country Strategic Plan (CSP) for 2022-2027, which aligns with the Government of Tanzania's Five-Year Development Plan III and national nutrition and agricultural strategies. The volunteers will work under Outcome 3 of the CSP, which seeks to strengthen smallholder farmers' climate-resilient livelihoods, food security, and nutrition by improving market access, value chains, and natural resource management. Specifically, the UNVs will support Activity 5, which provides technical assistance to help smallholder farmers improve soil health, diversify agricultural production, reduce post-harvest losses, and access market information and technologies. Core responsibilities include supporting WFP's cooperating partners in collecting seasonal crop data on production and income, delivering training on sustainable agronomic approaches to close yield gaps, and providing field-level support to enhance farmers' access to inputs and agricultural services. The volunteers will assist in establishing and following up on technology demonstration sites and training platforms, coordinate with value chain actors and youth agribusiness programmes, and conduct regular field monitoring to support programme tracking and learning. A key expectation is the promotion of gender equity, youth inclusion, and environmental safeguards across all activities. Candidates must have a minimum of two years of relevant working or community engagement experience in the public sector, private sector, or development-related activities, with a basic understanding of community engagement, agricultural support activities, and field-level programme implementation. Strong communication, teamwork, and data collection skills are essential, and familiarity with food security and agricultural activities in Tanzania is an advantage. The UNVs will report directly to the Programme Policy Officer (Agronomy and Food Systems) based in Dodoma and will be based in the Masalala, Meatu, Maswa, Itigi, and Igunga districts with frequent travel to other regions of project implementation. Candidates who are ordinary residents of the selected project location are preferred, as no relocation support will be provided. WFP is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and