Education Advisor-Greening and Agri-food

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree in agriculture, Agricultural Education,
  
• Environmental Education, Agroecology, or a related field, extensive and proven experience.
  
• At least 5 years of professional experience in education or training related to green agriculture or green skills development.
  
• Demonstrable expertise and experience in developing CPD courses for O-level teachers, both in-person and online.
  
• Demonstrable expertise and experience in green agrifood, including in-depth understanding and knowledge of the green transition in agriculture (climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, regenerative agriculture, etc.), networking and collaboration with green agrifood world of work actors and other stakeholders.
  
• Capability to appropriately plan and deploy a range of capacity development methods e.g., co-creation workshops, training, coaching, mentoring, events, study visits, etc. to strengthen educational institutions and accompany change processes.
  
• Excellent communication skills in listening, writing and public speaking.
  
• Knowledge of and experience with programme implementation, preferably project cycle management.
  

• You offer technical advice, guidance and support to partners and align and collaborate with internal VVOB colleagues to achieve project results and realise the educational change processes supported by the project.
  
• You contribute to the identification, formulation, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project that you are assigned to in order to realise the educational change processes supported by the project.
  
• You take up a variety of roles in the capacity development process of the partners according to the needs of the partner and particular situations and phases of the programme;
  
• You keep abreast with policy trends, new developments and latest research and thinking in agricultural education and training, positive youth development/youth economic empowerment and international development by external and internal networking and share new insights with partners and VVOB colleagues.