Location: Armenia, Vanadzor
Category:
Type: Full-time
Deadline: 11-Aug-19 12:00:00 AM
Salary:
Description
The Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the operational unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), is looking for a Field Officer (locally contracted, full-time, f/m) for the Project "EU Green Agriculture Initiative in Armenia" (EU-GAIA). Under the overall supervision of the EU-GAIA Project Manager the incumbent will be responsible for implementing and monitoring of all activities under the Specific Objectives 1, 2 and 4 as well as monitoring of Specific Objective 3 of the Action. The Field Officer will support value chain studies and market analysis, support identification of the beneficiary agribusinesses, liaise with local and marz administration, extension service providers and other local stakeholders. He/ she will organize capacity development activities, trainings, demo farm visits and other events and serve as the resource person conveying local context and interacting with the beneficiaries. The Field Officer will also assist the Project Manager and component leaders in terms of reporting on the Project internal M&E indicators progress and data collection.
Responsibilities
- Support effective implementation of the Specific Objectives 1,2, and 4;
- Monitor the effective implementation of Specific Objective 3;
- Support value chain studies and market analysis through facilitation of logistics, identification of the site visits, key informant interviews, etc.;
- Conduct identification of agribusinesses willing to participate in the Project and organize capacity development measures in cooperation with the other team members;
- Support identification of the farmers and agribusinesses willing to be organic;
- Liaise with marz and local authorities, extension service providers and other local stakeholders to assure achievement of the Project results;
- Support identification of the potential demonstration sites for introduction of the green technologies and good agricultural practices and maintain regular contact with the demo site owners to arrange visits of the farmers to the demo sites;
- Support identification of the partnerships with the post-harvest operators;
- Support exchange of experience and dissemination of the information among the farmers and other stakeholders;
- Constantly monitor the local environment and ensure data collection within assigned scope of duties ensuring compliance to gender safeguards, environmental and social standards;
- Perform basic administrative duties related to the maintenance of the Project field office, including but not limited to: maintaining the assigned Project vehicle, provision of regular reports to the Finance and Administrative Manager, bookkeeping of the expenses, petty cash management, procurement of supplies necessary for the functioning of the Project office (20% of the time);
- Support field visits from Yerevan office and Project partners;
- Perform other job-related duties as required by the Team Leader.
RequiredQualifications
- Education in Agriculture, Environment, Agricultural Economics, Public or Business Administration, or equivalent work experience;
- At least 3 years of relevant work experience, preferably in agriculture development projects; knowledge of inclusive market system development is an asset;
- Good knowledge of Armenian agriculture and local context;
- Understanding of international development cooperation principles and quality standards is highly desirable;
- Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities;
- Good written and oral communication/ reporting, presentation skills in English and Armenian languages;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a multinational and multicultural environment;
- Demonstrated gender, diversity and environmental competence, ability to integrate the gender perspective into tasks and activities;
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Outlook, Word and Excel;
- Adherence to the highest standards of ethics and integrity;
- Flexibility to adjust working hours to actual workload, as required;
- Ability to work under pressure and travel in the marzes up to 60% of the work time;
- Valid driving license category B with at least 3 years of safe driving experience.
Benefits
Job URL: iJob.am - Field Officer @ Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
No comments:
Post a Comment