Climate Smart Agriculture Specialist

Provide technical support and ensure adherence to standards and quality in implementation of program models and approaches.
Provide technical advice and support on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices tailored to the specific needs of refugee and host communities.
Recommend and implement CSA techniques such as soil conservation, water management, and agro-ecology that are suitable for local context.
Perform desk review of existing and potential CSA and Agro-ecological practices that support transitions to sustainable agriculture.
Analyse needs and adoption barriers for CSA approaches among farmers, producer organizations, and agribusinesses and device measure to address these barriers.
Co-design with target farmers, Local governments and relevant stakeholder climate smart interventions based on context-specific farming systems.
Oversee the implementation of CSA activities, including the introduction of improved crop varieties, sustainable farming methods, and efficient water use practices.
Ensure that cross-cutting aspects such as gender equity and social inclusion are included and well integrated into CSA approaches.
Use learning to develop and scale up implementation strategy, approaches and activities; integrating agriculture resilience into additional technical areas as needed.
Lead the design of CSA assessments of farmers, extension services, government partners, and small and medium agribusinesses.
Identify and rank crops affected by climate change and natural hazards, and recommend priorities to be addressed, based on assessed impacts and relevance of the crops to food security, incomes, added value and exports.
Assess barriers, gaps and needs for the adoption and implementation of climate smart agriculture approaches for the selected crops, at all levels, (policy, governance, research, technology development, information, capacity building, etc.).
Assess the current capacities and needs for capacity development of agricultural producers and extension providers to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and natural hazards, which are affecting the farming systems.
Propose priorities to be addressed through capacity development, related to the impact of climate change and natural hazards on agriculture, and provide recommendations for extension and knowledge tools required for the public, extension agents and farmers
Recommend strategies for eventual preparation of demonstration programmes, inclusive of demonstration plots in close coordination with relevant team members.
Work with public and private agricultural extension service providers to ensure the effective adoption of CSA practices.
Ensure integration of VSLAs among farmer groups and associations.
Ensure core project models and approaches are implemented according to schedule and minimum standards.
Better living conditions for the affected persons as they will be able to meet most of their basic needs.
Awareness created among different stakeholders on URRI interventions in the area.
Improved farmers’ knowledge on sustainable natural resources management for enhanced production & productivity.
Participate and contribute in environment coordination meetings to support the project
Better living conditions for the affected persons as they will be able to meet most of their basic needs.