WRI Food Systems Expert Jobs 2024 – Kenya NGO Jobs

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WRI Food Systems Expert Jobs 2024 – Kenya NGO Jobs.

WRI Kenya looking for “Food Systems Expert”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before April 09, 2024.

The World Resources Institute is a global research non-profit organization established in 1982 with funding from the MacArthur Foundation under the leadership of James Gustave Speth. WRI’s activities are focused on seven areas: food, forests, water, energy, cities, climate and ocean.

The WRI has published a job vacancy announcement on March 20, 2024 for qualified Kenya’s to fill in the vacant post of Food Systems Expert to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

WRI Job Vacancy 2024

What will you do:

Research (50%):

Conduct need assessment to build evidence on local degradation challenges and production suitability across the different ecological zones within the restoration champions sites
Conduct analysis on agronomic and restoration practices, degradation trends and contributing factors in restoration sites
Analyse existing data on soil health (from government institutions) or coordinate data gathering and analysis on the same if absent or limited
Review Restoration Champions proposal for gaps and opportunities for integrating food and nutrition security dimensions in proposed activities
Support market assessment for restoration products
Coordinate participatory trials with restoration champions and development of field level data collection tools
Support the monitoring, tracking, learning and reporting on food outcome area key indicators
Participate in selection and training of enumerators
Lead field data collection – mobilising enumerators, monitoring data quality and uploading the data on ODK or other software

Position in Organization:

Position: Food Systems Expert Restore Local Project
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Qualification:

Education: You have completed a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agronomy, agroecology, agroforestry, sustainability, environmental science or related fields
Experience: You have a 6+ years of experience working with smallholder farmers on sustainable land and water management practices, such as agroecology, agroforestry, managing soil erosion, landscape restoration
Demonstrated practical and technical expertise in food systems transformation in Africa, especially in soil and water management, regenerative agriculture and agroecology and other restoration practices that positively impact different dimension of food and nutrition security
Experience in research, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting with the ability to support field data collection processes by mobilising enumerators and respondents, data analysis and drafting reports
Experience in field level experiments in the agriculture sector
Experience designing training materials and programs for smallholder farmers
Experience coordinating farmers training
Experience coordinating farm demonstration plots and field experimentation/trials
Demonstrated knowledge of farmers market linkages or market systems development
Languages: Proficiency in verbal and written English and Swahili
Requirements: Existing work authorization is required where this position. WRI is unable to authorize visa work authorization.