Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Core Responsibilities & Duties
The Agriculture Officer works under the supervision and technical guidance of TBC’s Senior Programme Manager
Technical support for projects in remote communities.
The Agriculture Officer is expected to assist and monitor CSOs with the following tasks:
- Mobilise community forest and watershed management committees.
- Assess, design and construct micro-dams and irrigation systems to increase agricultural productivity.
- Assess, design and upgrade walking tracks into motorbike trails to promote market access.
- Mobilise farmers’ unions to manage rental services to expand access to mechanical ploughs.
- Promote nutritional awareness in relation to agriculture and organic gardening.
- Mobilise farmers to manage revolving seed and rice banks.
- Conduct annual household surveys of food security and anthropometric surveys of nutrition.
- Develop and validate annual work plans.
- Verify project progress against indicators and donor requirements, in collaboration with TBC’s Field Monitoring Officers.
- Verify compliance of construction projects with social and environmental mitigation requirements.
Technical capacity development of CSOs.
- Curriculum development and on-site coaching with agricultural training centers.
- On-site coaching about climate-smart agricultural techniques with farm extension workers.
- Collaborate with TBC’s Public Health Officer to provide on-site training about nutrition-sensitive agriculture with CSO partners.
- Assist Field Managers identify gaps and constraints to CSO capacities and to acquire appropriate resources to support technical development.
Networking and representation:
- Field monitoring includes regular travel and overnight stays in remote communities with basic amenities.
- Facilitate information flows and complaints mechanisms between remote communities, ethnic service providers, civil society organisations and TBC.
- Represent TBC in inter-agency meetings about nutrition and agriculture, as required.
Occasional Significant Duties
- Provide interpretation during monitoring visits, trainings and meetings, as required.
- Translate training materials and operational manuals, as required.
- Participate in organisational and programme planning and monitoring meetings, as required.
- Other duties may be delegated by the Senior Programme Manager as required.
