AGRA’s mission is to
trigger an African-led green revolution based on smallholder farmers in 13
countries in Africa.
To achieve this, AGRA works with a range of partners, from African governments, international partners, the private sector to public institutions to lead the implementation activities.
AGRA’s Soil Health Program makes its investments in 4 sub-programs: research,
extension, fertilizer policy and supply, and training and education.To achieve this, AGRA works with a range of partners, from African governments, international partners, the private sector to public institutions to lead the implementation activities.
The program intends to recruit consultants to facilitate the development of several key projects in its sub-programs and support in providing oversight in their implementation.
The consultant will work under the supervision of the program officers, and will engage directly through field visits and workshops with project teams to provide technical support.
A fair amount of travelling is expected.
Specific tasks:
- Guiding
potential grantees in developing quality projects proposals
- Conducting
oversight on projects implementation and reporting
- Strengthening
the capacity of the ISFM Scale-out grantees to conduct quality on-farm
demonstrations, adaptive research, and analyze emerging data.
- Developing
brief technical reports that highlight the progress of the projects and
synthesize emerging lessons.
Qualifications and Competencies:
- Advanced
university degree (PhD/MSc or equivalent) in an agricultural related
discipline, with at least 5 years post-qualification experience.
- Good
conceptual and project development skills, including development of high
quality donor-funding proposals. Evidence of such proposals may be
required.
- Excellent
writing and communication skills in English (ability to write in both
French and English especially for scientific and policy-oriented audiences
would be an added advantage).
- Excellent
computing skills especially in Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Word, among
others.
This period could be extended depending on performance and the need for the position.
Interested candidates should send their expressions of Interest (EoIs) on or before 24th February 2012 to the following email address: SHProjects@agra-alliance.org
