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.
How to Apply WRI Food Systems Expert Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://jobs.jobvite.com/wri/job/o0Yosfwy
The Closing Date: April 09, 2024.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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