Extension Support
Wau
- Organization: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Location: Wau
- Grade: Consultancy - Consultant - Contractors Agreement
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- Closing Date: 2024-10-25
IMPORTANT NOTICE\: Please note that Closure Date and Time displayed above are based on date and time settings of your personal device
- FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture
- Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply
- Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values
- FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination
- All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks
- All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality
Organizational Setting
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives’ works in over 130 countries worldwide. The main aim of the FAO country offices, which are headed by an FAO Representative, is to assist governments to develop policies, programs and projects to achieve food security by reducing hunger and malnutrition, developing the agricultural, fisheries and forestry sectors, and to use their natural resources in a sustainable manner.
FAO South Sudan supports community efforts to promote rural development and strengthen food security, raise agricultural production, improve efficiency in land and water use, and achieve optimum utilization of forestry and fisheries resources. To this effect, FAO South Sudan is delivering on both emergency livelihood response and resilience building projects with extension¬ services delivery as a cross-cutting responsibility.
Reporting lines
The Extension Support works under the overall guidance of the FAO Representative South Sudan and the direct supervision of the Head of Field Office.
Tasks and responsibilities
• Provide support in all technical natural resource related activities in FAO Wau Field Office
• Manage the nursery operations, including coordination of staff, material and equipment inventory, and ordering all supplies.
• Provide technical assistance to the State Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Production and Fisheries (MAAIF), and target County Agriculture Department with respect to planning and development of agro-forestry systems/technologies.
• Monitoring and follow up of agroforestry activities under the RALP project.
• Train farmers on sustainable agriculture innovations (soil& water conservation and IPM)
• Identify opportunities to develop crop production & productivity, value addition and marketing.
• Support the promotion of technologies and innovations that help increase the production, value of non-timber forest products
• Support environmental risks and food and nutrition assessments, and baseline studies.
Specific Functions
• Assist in the Organization of the regular food security cluster meetings within the mandate areas of Wau field office.
• Support the implementation of emergency, recovery and resilience building interventions in WBGS.
• Support in the promotion of technologies, innovations and good practices that help improve crop production, value addition, marketing and sound natural resource management.
• Perform other duties as required.
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING\:
Minimum Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Food security, Rural development, Natural resource management or any other related field.
• At least Four years of work experience in Extension and provision of trainings.
• Working knowledge of English (Level C) and knowledge of local languages.
• National of South Sudan
FAO Core Competencies
• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
Technical/Functional Skills
• Prior work experience with international organizations, including INGOs, bilateral or multilateral agencies and UN agencies is an asset
• Experience in monitoring agriculture and food security projects
• Ability to work in rural and remote areas.
• Experience in community-based development and participatory approaches in particular people centred approach in communicating, creating awareness and monitoring projects.
• Strong written communications skills and interpersonal skills, ability to work with others.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office package
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- FAO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing)
- Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted
- Please note that FAO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http\://www.whed.net/
- For additional employment opportunities visit the FAO employment website\: http\://www.fao.org/employment/home/en/
- Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa requirements, and security clearances.
FAO seeks gender, geographical and linguistic diversity in its staff and international consultants in order to best serve FAO Members in all regions.
HOW TO APPLY
• To apply, visit the recruitment website at Jobs at FAO and complete your online profile. We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, and language skills
• Candidates are requested to attach a letter of motivation to the online profile
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application
• Candidates may be requested to provide performance assessments and authorization to conduct verification checks of past and present work, character, education, military and police records to ascertain any and all information which may be pertinent to the employment qualifications
• Incomplete applications will not be considered
• Personal information provided on your application may be shared within FAO and with other companies acting on FAO’s behalf to provide employment support services such as pre-screening of applications, assessment tests, background checks and other related services. You will be asked to provide your consent before submitting your application. You may withdraw consent at any time, by withdrawing your application, in such case FAO will no longer be able to consider your application
• Only applications received through the FAO recruitment portal will be considered
• Your application will be screened based on the information provided in your online profile
• We encourage applicants to submit the application well before the deadline date.
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Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.