Workstream Leadership and Coordination
· Provide overall scientific and operational leadership for WS5.
· Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of all Work Packages under WS5.
· Develop annual and quarterly workplans, implementation schedules, milestones, and budgets for WS5 activities.
· Ensure effective coordination among Work Package Leads, consortium partners, and implementing institutions.
· Facilitate regular workstream planning, coordination, and review meetings.
· Ensure timely delivery of outputs, outcomes, and key performance indicators assigned to WS5.
· Represent WS5 in Consortium Management Team meetings and other internal coordination mechanisms.
· Provide scientific leadership and technical guidance across all Work Packages within WS5.
· Ensure implementation follows agreed methodologies, protocols, and quality standards.
· Review technical workplans, methodologies, data collection approaches, and reports produced by Work Package teams.
· Promote evidence-based decision-making and adaptive management throughout implementation.
· Ensure integration of WS5 activities with relevant outputs and activities from other workstreams.
· Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to support successful implementation.
· Provide overall scientific, technical, and operational oversight of all Work Packages under WS5.
· Ensure effective planning, coordination, implementation, and reporting across Work Packages 1, 2, and 3.
· Monitor progress against approved workplans, milestones, deliverables, and performance indicators.
· Coordinate Work Package Leads, consortium partners, consultants, and implementing institutions to ensure integrated delivery of activities and outputs.
· Ensure implementation follows approved methodologies, protocols, and quality standards.
· Identify and address technical, operational, and implementation bottlenecks affecting delivery of work package activities.
· Ensure effective integration and knowledge sharing among the three work packages and with relevant activities in other workstreams.
· Oversee data collection, data quality assurance, technical reporting, and documentation of lessons learned and best practices.
· Ensure timely completion of work package outputs and contributions to workstream-level outcomes and Consortium targets.
· Lead the synthesis of results, lessons learned, and recommendations generated across the workstream for reporting, dissemination, and scaling purposes.
Monitoring, Reporting and Knowledge Management
· Track progress against approved workplans, milestones, and performance indicators.
· Prepare technical progress reports, annual reports, and donor reporting inputs related to WS5.
· Maintain workstream documentation, activity records, and knowledge products.
· Support monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes in coordination with the Program Management Unit.
· Contribute to synthesis reports and cross-workstream technical publications.
Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships
· Build and maintain strong relationships with consortium partners, national research institutions, universities, private sector partners, scaling partners, and international organizations.
· Support collaboration with government entities, including the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) Egypt, Desert Research Center (DRC) Egypt, UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE), Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), and other relevant regional and national institutions.
· Represent WS5 in technical meetings, workshops, conferences, and stakeholder consultations.
· Facilitate knowledge exchange among participating countries and institutions.
· Promote alignment of WS5 activities with national and regional RPW management priorities.
Capacity Development and Scaling
· Collaborate with ICARDA’s Communications Team to translate technical findings into briefs, infographics, and presentations.
· Ensure scientific outputs are accessible to policy and decision-making audiences.
· Support development of strategic narratives and outreach materials.
Communications and Knowledge Translation
· Work closely with the Communications and Knowledge Management team to disseminate WS5 achievements and results.
· Contribute technical content for policy briefs, factsheets, newsletters, scientific publications, and presentations.
· Support translation of scientific findings into practical recommendations for policymakers, extension services, and farmers.
· Ensure visibility of donor and consortium contributions in accordance with approved communications guidelines.
Resource Mobilization and Strategic Contribution
· Identify opportunities for leveraging and expanding WS5 activities.
· Contribute technical inputs to concept notes, proposals, and resource mobilization efforts.
· Support planning for future phases and scale-up of successful interventions.
· Contribute scientific input to strategic planning discussions within the Consortium.