Agronomist Vacancy at Christian Aid (CA)

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About the role

The Agronomist will provide support to the FADAMA III livelihood activities among host communities of Jere and MMC LGA in the areas of  irrigation, rain fall farming and vegetable gardening. The role holder will facilitate training for livelihood beneficiaries, develop and share agronomy best practices. The post holder will implement farm base livelihoods activities in local communities with emphasis on promoting best Agronomy practice through support, coaching (FSS), mentoring and regular feedback. He/she will  supervise the cropping under the livelihoods project Including facilitation of baseline surveys, needs assessment and conduct consultative meetings with the project stakeholders  

About you

You are required to have a degree in Agronomy, Horticulture,  Crop production or other relevant fields and previous work experience. You are required to have minimum of one year experience setting up and implementing farm base livelihoods or income generating projects preferably with an NGO in a host community or IDP setting. You are required to be familiar with the culture of conflict and/or disaster- affected populations, ability to develop respect for  a wide range of people and strong ability to communicate effectively on sanitation and hygiene matters. Experience working in harsh climatic conditions and ability to communicate fluently in (Hausa or Kanuri) language will be an added advantage.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability,  religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build partnerships

Tell us about a time when you had to establish and maintain relationships with a wide range of contacts and networks based on mutual rapport and respect. What was the context? Why did you need to establish the new relationships and why was your attitude to this important? What was your task? What outcomes were being sought? What actions did you take? How did you take them?

Deliver results

Tell us about a time when you planned, prioritised and monitored your own work to meet the team’s objectives to the standards required. What was your context? What was your task/responsibility?  What actions did you take? What was the impact of your actions? Were you successful?

Strive for improvement

Please tell us about a time when you have identified a better way of doing something having taken into account the implications of your proposal. What was the context? What was your ‘better way’? What was your task? What action(s) did you take? Why? How? What was the outcome? Was your proposal accepted? What was the impact?

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