Deadline of this Job: 31 January 2023
JOB DETAILS:
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
Major responsibilities
• Community education on contextualized kitchen gardens in refugee camps
• Train and work with the community on the management of the kitchen in the refugee camp context
• Ensure availability of farm inputs and facilitate their applications
• Undertake supportive home visits to kitchen garden farms
• Facilitate the community for the preparation of inorganic manure
• Weekly and Monthly report compilation
End results
• Community sensitized to natural resources management over plan
• Community educated on kitchen garden
• Farm inputs available
• Improved knowledge and skills
Organic manure produced
• Timely and accurate reports shared
Knowledge/ qualifications for roles required professional experience
• Experience in working with humanitarian operations and refugees programs,
• Experience in community work, particularly agricultural activities
Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification
• Diploma in Agricultural /Horticulture from a recognized Institution
• A degree holder is an added value
Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
• Communication skills
• Self-expression
Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement
• Field (Refugee camps)
Physical Requirements
• Should be physically fit
Language Requirements
• English and Swahili
Decision making
• The role needs appropriate decision-making skills Contact (within WV or outside WV)
• NRC-WASH Supervisor
Core competencies
• Be Safe and Resilient
• Deliver Results
• Build Relationships
• Be Accountable
• Learn and Develop
Improve and Innovate
• Partner and Collaborate
• Embrace Chang
Deadline of this Job: 19 January 2023
JOB DETAILS:
Summary
Supervise Agronomist and Extension Specialists in supporting farmers, input supply companies, agro dealers, women and youth groups, and VBAAs to help them use and apply appropriate technology and skills and sustainably increase productivity and profitability of their enterprises and farming business. The Senior Agronomist will provide leadership and technical and strategic guidance to the Agronomist and Extension Specialists.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
1) Lead production-based, value chain initiatives within the region(s).
• Provide technical support and management to agronomist/extension specialists within the selected region(s) by conducting regular, programmed visits to their areas of work. Ensure that agronomist/extension specialists are properly trained, professional, and carrying out all tasks assigned to them, including proper adoption of agricultural technologies and support to assigned partners.
• Provide regular feedback to the agronomist/extension specialists on their performance and inform the Productivity and Technology Commercialization Manager of their progress in a weekly report.
• Provide training and technical assistance to partner field staff and other key technical stakeholders.
• Assist agronomists in planning, budgeting, and conducting successful, well-attended farmer field days and other public events like Farmer-to-Farmer events, Nane Nane, etc.
• Supervising the development of technical materials for training courses, workshops, marketing/trade events, and other activities.
• Ensure that agronomist/extension specialists in the region(s) understand their strategic contributions under the project design – to expand smallholder commercial horticulture and strengthen linkages with the sub-sector.
2) Take a proactive role in ensuring that the project meets its targets for significant involvement of women and youth in the commercial horticultural value chain.
• Drive market linkages and relationship building between regional stakeholders to stimulate the supply of inputs, technology adoption, financial service provision, sales, and value addition.
• Support and interact with regional stakeholders from the private sector, government extension officers and partners as necessary.
3) Assist project management in understanding the production potential of the region(s) and the means of unlocking it. This includes the identification of regional constraints and opportunities within the horticulture market system, as well as relevant stakeholders.
• Provide input for work plans and budgets, quarterly and monthly reports, program success stories, etc., as required.
• Follow up on collection of M&E data from input suppliers, youth groups, and farmers’ organizations and ensure quality and completeness of data collection forms and address all gaps based on supervisors’ input.
• Submit timely field data related to indicators and quarterly reports to Productivity and Technology Commercialization Manager.
4) Undertake other activities and duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualification requirements:
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agronomy, botany, horticulture, or related field
• At least 10 years’ working experience in agro input supply industry or institution supporting scaling seeds and technology in the agriculture sector
• Must have excellent knowledge in horticulture production, as well as possess strong leadership skills and have a proven track record in agriculture development projects
• Previous or current experience in the horticulture industry in Tanzania is an added advantage.
• Excellent writing skills and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and produce quality communications under tight deadlines
• Complete fluency in oral and written Kiswahili and English
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other media creation/editing programs
JOB DETAILS:
Summary
Supervise Agronomist and Extension Specialists in supporting farmers, input supply companies, agro dealers, women and youth groups, and VBAAs to help them use and apply appropriate technology and skills and sustainably increase productivity and profitability of their enterprises and farming business. The Senior Agronomist will provide leadership and technical and strategic guidance to the Agronomist and Extension Specialists.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
1) Lead production-based, value chain initiatives within the region(s).
• Provide technical support and management to agronomist/extension specialists within the selected region(s) by conducting regular, programmed visits to their areas of work. Ensure that agronomist/extension specialists are properly trained, professional, and carrying out all tasks assigned to them, including proper adoption of agricultural technologies and support to assigned partners.
• Provide regular feedback to the agronomist/extension specialists on their performance and inform the Productivity and Technology Commercialization Manager of their progress in a weekly report.
• Provide training and technical assistance to partner field staff and other key technical stakeholders.
• Assist agronomists in planning, budgeting, and conducting successful, well-attended farmer field days and other public events like Farmer-to-Farmer events, Nane Nane, etc.
• Supervising the development of technical materials for training courses, workshops, marketing/trade events, and other activities.
• Ensure that agronomist/extension specialists in the region(s) understand their strategic contributions under the project design – to expand smallholder commercial horticulture and strengthen linkages with the sub-sector.
2) Take a proactive role in ensuring that the project meets its targets for significant involvement of women and youth in the commercial horticultural value chain.
• Drive market linkages and relationship building between regional stakeholders to stimulate the supply of inputs, technology adoption, financial service provision, sales, and value addition.
• Support and interact with regional stakeholders from the private sector, government extension officers and partners as necessary.
3) Assist project management in understanding the production potential of the region(s) and the means of unlocking it. This includes the identification of regional constraints and opportunities within the horticulture market system, as well as relevant stakeholders.
• Provide input for work plans and budgets, quarterly and monthly reports, program success stories, etc., as required.
• Follow up on collection of M&E data from input suppliers, youth groups, and farmers’ organizations and ensure quality and completeness of data collection forms and address all gaps based on supervisors’ input.
• Submit timely field data related to indicators and quarterly reports to Productivity and Technology Commercialization Manager.
4) Undertake other activities and duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualification requirements:
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agronomy, botany, horticulture, or related field
• At least 10 years’ working experience in agro input supply industry or institution supporting scaling seeds and technology in the agriculture sector
• Must have excellent knowledge in horticulture production, as well as possess strong leadership skills and have a proven track record in agriculture development projects
• Previous or current experience in the horticulture industry in Tanzania is an added advantage.
• Excellent writing skills and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and produce quality communications under tight deadlines
• Complete fluency in oral and written Kiswahili and English
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other media creation/editing programs
Deadline of this Job: 19 January 2023
JOB DETAILS:
Summary:
Support farmers, input supply companies, agro dealers, women and youth groups, and VBAAs to help them use and apply appropriate technology and skills and sustainably increase productivity and profitability of their enterprises and farming business.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities:
1) Identify appropriate clients and stakeholders in the horticulture sector and recommending them to the Senior Agronomist or Partnership Specialist for program assistance.
• Assist with the formation and/or support of smallholder grower groups and ensure their successful development and participation in out grower schemes or other group activities relevant to program objectives.
• Coordinate with other specialists along the value chain (finance, postharvest, processing/value addition, market facilitators, partnership technical coordinators) to address lead farmer and partner constraints.
• Identify constraints in the local horticultural value chains so that the program and its partners can begin identifying and introducing solutions.
• Liaise with Senior Agronomist and input supply companies to support establishment and follow up of technology demonstration sites, and Farmers Field Days, as platforms for demand creation and training.
• Facilitate provision of technical support from input companies to youth groups, lead farmers, VBAAs, hub- agro dealers, rural agro dealers in the implementation of the project grants milestone deliverables.
2) Follow up on collection of data from women and youth groups and farmers’ organizations to ensure quality and completeness of data collection forms and address all gaps based on supervisors’ input.
• Collect all the necessary data and information required and submit it to Senior Agronomist and any other staff in the project as required.
• Submit timely field data related to indicators and quarterly reports to Senior Agronomist.
• Work with supervisor to plan and implement work plans in the designated region
3) Undertake other activities and duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualification Requirements:
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agronomy, botany, horticulture, or related field
• At least 5 years’ working experience in agro input supply industry or institution supporting scaling seeds and technology in the agriculture sector
• Must have excellent knowledge in horticulture production, as well as possess strong leadership skills and have a proven track record in agriculture development projects
• Previous or current experience in the horticulture industry in Tanzania is an added advantage.
• Excellent writing skills and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and produce quality communications under tight deadlines
• Complete fluency in oral and written Kiswahili and English
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other media creation/editing programs.
JOB DETAILS:
Summary:
Support farmers, input supply companies, agro dealers, women and youth groups, and VBAAs to help them use and apply appropriate technology and skills and sustainably increase productivity and profitability of their enterprises and farming business.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities:
1) Identify appropriate clients and stakeholders in the horticulture sector and recommending them to the Senior Agronomist or Partnership Specialist for program assistance.
• Assist with the formation and/or support of smallholder grower groups and ensure their successful development and participation in out grower schemes or other group activities relevant to program objectives.
• Coordinate with other specialists along the value chain (finance, postharvest, processing/value addition, market facilitators, partnership technical coordinators) to address lead farmer and partner constraints.
• Identify constraints in the local horticultural value chains so that the program and its partners can begin identifying and introducing solutions.
• Liaise with Senior Agronomist and input supply companies to support establishment and follow up of technology demonstration sites, and Farmers Field Days, as platforms for demand creation and training.
• Facilitate provision of technical support from input companies to youth groups, lead farmers, VBAAs, hub- agro dealers, rural agro dealers in the implementation of the project grants milestone deliverables.
2) Follow up on collection of data from women and youth groups and farmers’ organizations to ensure quality and completeness of data collection forms and address all gaps based on supervisors’ input.
• Collect all the necessary data and information required and submit it to Senior Agronomist and any other staff in the project as required.
• Submit timely field data related to indicators and quarterly reports to Senior Agronomist.
• Work with supervisor to plan and implement work plans in the designated region
3) Undertake other activities and duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualification Requirements:
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agronomy, botany, horticulture, or related field
• At least 5 years’ working experience in agro input supply industry or institution supporting scaling seeds and technology in the agriculture sector
• Must have excellent knowledge in horticulture production, as well as possess strong leadership skills and have a proven track record in agriculture development projects
• Previous or current experience in the horticulture industry in Tanzania is an added advantage.
• Excellent writing skills and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and produce quality communications under tight deadlines
• Complete fluency in oral and written Kiswahili and English
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other media creation/editing programs.