Overview
Provide technical leadership in designing and implementing climate-resilient agriculture interventions to improve farmer and fisherfolk productivity, resilience, and livelihoods.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) practices.
- Support the design and implementation of climate-adaptive farming systems.
- Conduct technical assessments and recommend interventions.
- Develop and/or adapt training modules and extension materials.
- Facilitate and organize capacity-building activities.
- Provide technical inputs to the specification and procurement of agricultural inputs and technologies.
- Promote the adoption of energy-efficient and climate-resilient technologies.
- Integrate GEDSI considerations into agricultural interventions.
- Support implementation of anticipatory and early action measures.
- Coordinate with government agencies, LGUs, and partners.
- Participate in technical working groups, sectoral coordination meetings, and stakeholder consultations.
- Provide technical inputs to project documents, proposals, reports, and knowledge products.
- Support monitoring of agricultural interventions.
- Collect, analyze, and organize agriculture-related data and field insights.
- Document good practices, lessons learned, and innovations.
- Support integration of risk-informed and adaptive approaches into farming systems.
- Contribute to capacity building of LGUs and community organizations.
- Assist in strengthening linkages between farmers, extension services, and support institutions.
- Prepare technical reports and contribute to progress and donor reports.
- Carry out any other relevant duties within technical competence as required by FAO.
Required Experience
At least 5 years of relevant experience in agriculture/rural development sectors, farming systems development, sustainable agricultural production, integrated crop-livestock systems, climate resilient agriculture, or related areas.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in the field of Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Agrometeorology and other Sustainable Development related studies.
