Climate Smart Agriculture Specialist

Job Specifications:

• Minimum of Bachelors in Agriculture, Agro-Forestry, Forestry, Natural Resources, Environmental Sciences, or any other relevant discipline.
  
• Broad knowledge and understanding of sustainable agriculture practices, climate adaptive measures and community participatory approaches. Any experience in implementing agroforestry programs is strongly desired.
  
• At least three (3) years’ experience working with vulnerable communities and familiarity with humanitarian programming and implementation
  
• Proven facilitation skills and experience in facilitating technical trainings for program staff and different categories of participants.
  

Provide technical support and ensure adherence to standards and quality in implementation of program models and approaches

• Provide technical advice and support on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices tailored to the specific needs of refugee and host communities.
  

• Recommend and implement CSA techniques such as soil conservation, water management, and agro-ecology that are suitable for local context.
  

• Perform desk review of existing and potential CSA and Agro-ecological practices that support transitions to sustainable agriculture.
  

• Analyse needs and adoption barriers for CSA approaches among farmers, producer organizations, and agribusinesses and device measure to address these barriers.
  

• Co-design with target farmers, Local governments and relevant stakeholder climate smart interventions based on context-specific farming systems.
  

Stakeholder engagement, networking and collaboration

• Work with partners across the consortium to ensure coordination of activities with other stakeholders especially government line ministries (Ministry of water and environment and ministry of Agriculture Animal Industries and Fisheries.
  

• Participate in consortia joint engagement, planning meeting, environment sector working groups, monthly coordination meetings and workshops.
  

• Map strategic partners and develop clear working relationship to support promotion of sustainable natural resource management practices.
  

Training and capacity building of staff and partners

• Identify needs and organize trainings to develop capacity of program staff and partners to increase their competence in climate smart agriculture
  

• Design and deliver training sessions and workshops for program staff and participants on CSA techniques and sustainable agricultural practices.
  

• Develop educational materials and resources to support knowledge transfer and skill-building.
  

Documentation, Reporting and Knowledge Management

• Support preparation and review of monthly, quarterly and annual progress and special reports requiring technical input in a timely manner.
  

• Work closely with Programme Manager; to prepare realistic annual and quarterly work plans
  

• Support quarterly reviews and reflections on review of progress towards program objectives.