Land and Water Management Specialist
Lilongwe
- Organization: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Location: Lilongwe
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Environment
- Human Settlements (Shelter, Housing, Land, Property)
- Water Resource Management
- FAO REPRESENTATION MALAWI
- Closing Date: Closed
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FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender and nationality.
Persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
The incumbent may be re-assigned to different activities and/or duty stations
depending on the evolving needs of the Organization
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Organizational Setting Through its Country Offices, or FAO Representations, FAO assists governments to develop policies, programmes and projects to address hunger and malnutrition, and provides technical support for the sustainable development of their agricultural, fisheries and forestry sectors and to respond to crises. The Land and Water Management Specialist will be hired under project GCP/MLW/072/EC - KULIMA; Revitalizing agricultural clusters and Ulimi wa Mdandanda through Farmer field schools in Malawi, a 5 year project in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Malawi funded by the European Union. The main project objective is to promote sustainable agricultural growth and incomes to enhance food and nutrition security in Malawi within the context of a changing climate. This action has been conceived to support the District Agricultural Extension Services System (DAESS) to ensure sustainable increase of agricultural productivity and diversified production. This will be attained through building capacity of a pool of FFS Master Trainers and community based facilitators to be drawn from selected farming communities. The availability of highly qualified FFS Master Trainers and Community Based facilitators will facilitate the overall empowerment of the farmers to address the various issues affecting the production, productivity, nutrition and access to market. Reporting Lines The International Land and Water Management Specialist will be under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative in Malawi and the direct operational supervision of KULIMA Chief Technical Advisor and he or she will work in close collaboration with the KULIMA co-Facilitators; resilience Pillar Technical Advisor and the Assistant FAO Representative (Programme). Technical Focus The International FFS Specialist will be responsible for conducting Farmer Field School Master Trainersâ Courses for KULIMA Extension Workers and oversee the Training of facilitatorsâ courses for Community Based Facilitators. The training will be intensive and full of practical sessions (65%), theory (25%) and outreach (10%). The participants will be systematically taken through various concepts and tools with emphasis on relating their applicability in their own local context. In addition to the traditional FFS agroecosystem based content on sustainable good agricultural husbandry/practices, natural resources management and innovative adaptations to climate change, purposive inclusions will be made to broaden the MT course curriculum to include modules on nutrition sensitive agriculture; Farmer Business School (FBS) - entrepreneurial skills development and farming as a business (enterprise selection, gross margin analysis, profitability analysis, farm budgets, enterprise planning, cost benefit analysis and enterprise records); post-harvest handling; marketing and value chain analysis; savings mobilization and key cross cutting issues. Tasks and responsibilities The incumbent will work more specifically\:
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING Minimum Requirements
FAO Core Competencies
Technical/Functional Skills
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Please note that all candidates should adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO,
Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- FAO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, processing).
- Please note that FAO will only consider academic credentials or degrees obtained from an educational institution recognised in the IAU/UNESCO list.
- Only language proficiency certificates from UN accredited external providers and/or FAO language official examinations (LPE, ILE, LRT) will be accepted as proof of the level of knowledge of languages indicated in the online applications.
- Candidates with acceptable language certificate/s should upload them when submitting their application. For details, visit http\://www.fao.org/3/I8446EN/i8446en.pdf
- For other issues, visit the FAO employment website\: http\://www.fao.org/employment/home/en/
- For further information on categories, contract duration and honoraria, please refer to the Conditions page.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, visit the recruitment website at Jobs at FAO and complete your online profile. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Only applications received through the recruitment portal will be considered.
Vacancies will be removed from the recruitment portal at 23\:59 Central European Time (CET) on the deadline for applications date. We encourage applicants to submit the application well before the deadline date.
If you need help, or have queries, please contact\: iRecruitment@fao.org
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