Science
production

• Support
  in conducting research activities (data collection and analysis), particularly
  in collecting data at the provincial and district levels.
  
• Assist
  the project team in developing tools, manuals, and guidelines.
  
• Develop
  monthly and annual (detailed) work plans (including stakeholder engagement
  plan) with appropriate approaches in consultation with the ICRAF project
  management and relevant scientists.
  
• Liaise
  and network with local (and national) stakeholders, including governments,
  NGOs, and local community representatives, to ensure smooth project
  coordination and implementation. 
  
• Deploy
  suitable community engagement and analysis methods with relevant stakeholders
  as required in coordination with ICRAF scientists.
  
• Support
  the project team leaders to ensure high-quality outputs and timely submissions
  of consultant and partner research outputs.
  
• Document,
  communicate and advocate progress in the implementation of Green Value Chains,
  Payment for Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Landscape Management and Capacity
  Development processes.
  

Human capital

• Support
  in research activities of students and interns, including facilitating and
  evaluating their work.
  
• Assist
  the project team in strengthening the capacity of partners at national and
  sub-national levels, including facilitating and organizing training, workshops,
  and other events in collaboration with partners and country teams.
  

Game-changing solutions

• Engage
  in setting up and functioning of soft institutions and stakeholder platforms
  with relevant stakeholders/stakeholder institutions for upgrading green value
  chains that support effective application of sustainable land management
  practices as per project requirements.
  
• Assist
  in developing green value chain and sustainable financing networks connecting
  both existing value chains and those developed by the project at different
  levels.
  
• Examine
  the benefit sharing across the different actors of the value chains and
  sustainable financing and propose actions to ensure equitable benefit sharing.
  
• Motivate
  actors for sustainable landscape management practices and connect them
  effectively with value chain upgrades & PES mechanisms.
  
• Contribute
  to strengthening coordination and synergies among external consultants engaged
  by both ICRAF and the PMU.
  
• Represent
  the organization in engaging with public, private, and smallholder farmers in
  various events – as a resource person, participant, and other relevant
  capacity.
  
• Contribute
  to local and national discussions on relevant topics of expertise in close
  coordination with the supervisor and Sri Lanka senior researchers.
  

Structural capital

• Support
  the project team leaders to ensure accountability processes to donors by
  contributing to timely submissions of reports and activities on the ground.
  
• Contribute
  to project reporting, monitoring, and evaluation in collaboration with other
  team members and project partners. 
  
• Participate
  in adaptive management reviews of implementation.
  
• Maintain
  records on stakeholders and community engagements (e.g. prior notice, list of
  attendances and contacts, gallery of photos, agenda & minutes preparation).
  
• Track
  the follow-up actions of the decisions taken in the meetings.
  
• Provide
  monthly summary reports comprising type of engagement/meeting, decisions taken,
  progress of follow up actions and remarks, and contribute to the annual donor
  reporting as required.