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• Actively engage with remote communities to
  establish priorities for community-led natural resources management,
  provide sustainable agricultural practices and implementation of
  identified pilot opportunities for community NRM plan implementation and
  monitoring.
• Identify opportunity areas and share them
  with the NRM team leader for alternative methods of climate-smart
  agriculture.
• Work closely with Mercy Corps technical
  staff, Consortium members such as Makerere University, University of
  Nairobi and other local partners to establish locally appropriate pilots.
• Work with private sector and line district departments
  and ministries to address environmentally harmful methods of extracting
  local natural resources.
• Ensure support to policy formulation around
  sustainable methods, alternative energy mechanisms and water management
  and conservation.
• Coordinate with counterpart agencies and
  organizations involved in conservation and climate change adaptation for
  information community NRM plans.
• Identify community NRM needs and priorities,
  especially around land access and rangeland management for Karamoja and water
  resources for production as well as livestock watering.
• Organizational Learning: As part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide
  Organizational Learning Initiative, all team members are responsible for
  spending 5% of their work time in formal and/or non-formal professional
  learning activities.

• The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps Program
  Officer, Agriculture and Natural Resources Management career vacancy should
  preferably hold a degree in a related field of expertise (e.g.
  Agriculture, NRM, pastoral livestock management, water resources,
  irrigation, agro-economy, conservation agriculture, environmental policy,
  etc).
• A minimum of five years of technical and
  practical work experience in one of the required fields, with specific to
  agriculture extension;
• Broad knowledge of various natural resource
  disciplines, including air quality, water quality, geomorphic and hydrologic
  processes, fire and vegetation management, fish and wildlife management,
  aquatic and terrestrial ecology, conservation biology and restoration
  ecology.
• Knowledge and experience in either livestock
  or rangeland management, irrigation, water harvesting or water saving
  methods in arid lands.
• Previous experience and proven track record
  in rural development and participatory appraisal.

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