Summary
Date Posted: Monday, May 25, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Agroforestry Senior Officer will play an integral role in supporting the program to strengthen the institutional and regulatory systems for climate-responsive planning and development for adoption of Ever Greening practices, support the improvement and management of land or forest areas contributing to emissions reductions practices, work with community members and other relevant stakeholders to be able to adapt to climate change and related ecosystem risks and work with the value chain team to develop sustainable market and value chains of agroforest products. CRS Tanzania will work with other four partners to implement this program hence the candidate is expected to forge strong collaboration with his/her peer staff from other organizations to make sure that similar approaches and strategies are shared and applied across the program. The program will be focused primarily in the Southern highlands mainly in Mbeya, Njombe and Ruvuma Regions. .

Duties and Responsibilities
• Conduct Training of Trainers workshops (targeting staff, lead/champion farmers and government extension workers, and an equal or greater number of females), to build the capacity of public, private and community-based rural advisory and extension services
• Establish or enhance household and community-based demonstration sites for contextually appropriate Evergreening best practices
• Facilitate household-to-household visits, farmer field and business schools, citizen science and the support of experienced farmer-disseminators and community-based extension
• Provide through appropriate means tree seed, cuttings, seedlings and/or implements including where appropriate the enhancement or establishment of private and/or community-managed nurseries and woodlots.
• Support the implementation of Evergreening practices through low cost on-farm soil and water conservation practices.
• Empower and promote Evergreening champions within communities, schools, organizations and local government to advocate for and promote the adoption and practice of Evergreening approaches at scale.
• Conduct social behavior change and communication campaigns, community dialogues and sensitization activities to address inter-community and human-wildlife conflict resolution and peacebuilding
• Work with agroforestry team lead, other consortium members, government and private sector stakeholders to develop and adapt agroforestry approaches and strategies which will be applied across the program.
• Work with the value chain team to identify and promote climate-resilient agroforest products value-chains, identify and assess markets for linkages
• Support the scaling of existing, or where contextually appropriate, establishment of new agroforestry value chains through technical and input access support, market and financial service linkages, standards and labelling, improved planting material, processing and storage, etc.
• Facilitate establishment and/ or scaling of existing Natural Resource Based Enterprises (NRBEs) including value chains, with a particular emphasis on enterprises which are likely to deliver rapid benefits.
• Work with the MEAL Manager to conduct national level tree, soil and crop yield baselines with technical support from research institutions and other consortium members
• Build capacity on using appropriate remote sensing tools, agroforestry science, community managed or assisted natural regeneration and field data collection and analysis
• Validate tree cover data of farm and rangeland and relevant community-managed areas, using appropriate remote sensing and field level tools
• Facilitate the documentation of all agroforestry best practices and learnings and share them with the MEAL Manager for wide sharing

Job Skills: Not Specified

Requirements: Education, work experience and skills
• Master’s Degree in Agroforestry, Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, or related subjects. Additional relevant experience especially on climate change can substitute for education qualifications.
• Minimum of 5 years experience managing community programs is required, preferably focusing in the area of Landscape Management and Restoration, Climate Smart Agriculture or Evergreening Initiative.
• Experience working in a consortium settings preferably with an international NGO.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally being strategic in how you approach each relationship and how to influence for desired results.
• Good presentation and facilitation skills
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions and results-oriented
• Willing and able to travel up to 60% in Mbeya, Njombe and Ruvuma.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested and qualified applicants are requested to submit their applications to CRS Human Resources Manager at TZ_HR@crs.org  by 17h00 EAT on 06 June 2020.
Only submissions that meet the following criteria will be reviewed
• Subject line must read indicate the position applied for.
• CV must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 4 pages.
• Cover letter summarizing qualifications and motivation. Cover letter must be in Word or PDF format and not exceed 1 page.
• Kindly note, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

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