Overview
Provide technical leadership and support for agriculture-related activities, ensuring alignment with program objectives and guidelines. Assist in planning, implementation, and monitoring of projects to achieve established targets and maintain quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and support for agriculture-related activities.
- Assist in planning, implementation, and monitoring of projects.
- Research and anticipate Government policy, priorities, strategies and regulations related to agriculture.
- Prepare reports, analyze data, and highlight trends or issues.
- Ensure accurate and timely recording of data.
- Liaise with internal teams to support collaboration.
- Coordinate with partners and institutions to strengthen market linkages and improve agricultural value chains.
- Develop technical guidelines, SOPs, and specifications for crop production, soil and water conservation, and post-harvest management.
- Identify suitable crops and prepare cropping calendars and technical instructions.
- Organize and deliver training programs on best agricultural practices, crop diversification, and entrepreneurship development.
- Establish and mentor trainer pools.
- Support development of project proposals, beneficiary selection criteria, and participatory planning processes.
- Assess technical feasibility and effectiveness of interventions.
- Provide technical input for monitoring and evaluation systems.
- Prepare agriculture development plans, technical designs, input distribution strategies, and resource mobilization documents.
- Foster partnerships and collaboration with stakeholders.
- Coordinate and communicate with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions.
- Prepare Technical Specifications and relevant documents.
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and national government.
- Act as a point of contact for resolution of operational queries and problems.
- Oversee and/or review the work of other support staff.
- Follow standard emergency preparedness practices.
