Overview
Provide technical expertise to enhance sustainable crop production systems within FAO Lebanon programmes and field interventions, focusing on climate smart agriculture, good agricultural practices, soil health, and water-use efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance for crop production activities.
- Support design and rollout of climate smart agriculture and GAP.
- Lead assessments on crop production constraints and opportunities.
- Develop and validate technical protocols.
- Provide field support and advisory services to farmers.
- Contribute to training materials and technical packages.
- Support demonstration plots and field trials.
- Ensure alignment with FAO standards and national policies.
- Monitor field implementation and document lessons learned.
- Prepare technical reports and inputs for project reports.
- Facilitate coordination with government institutions and research centers.
- Contribute to procurement processes by preparing technical specifications.
- Provide technical backstopping to project staff.
- Contribute technical inputs to programme/project development and implementation.
- Participate in multidisciplinary teams.
- Provide advice on policies and strategies.
- Lead capacity development activities.
- Ensure technical quality assurance and control.
- Ensure smooth project implementation through stakeholder meetings.
- Prepare detailed work plans.
- Assist in preparing technical specifications for inputs and equipment.
- Consult and communicate with key project stakeholders.
- Represent FAO in interagency clusters and technical working groups.
- Draft Terms of Reference for consultants.
- Coordinate the work of affiliate personnel.
- Contribute to the preparation of Letters of Agreements.
- Implement a robust monitoring and evaluation system.
- Provide technical input to written outputs.
- Provide advice and technical expertise to knowledge management activities.
- Document best practices, success stories and lessons learned.
- Assist in preparation of periodic progress and ad hoc reports.
- Contribute to preparation of reports for donors.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience in crop production, sustainable agriculture, or field-level implementation of agricultural development projects.
- Experience with a UN Agency or International NGO is desirable.
- Familiarity with international development practices and donor procedures is an asset.
Qualifications
• University degree in agronomy, crop science, plant production, agricultural sciences, or a related field
