2 Program Officer – Agriculture Job Placements – Mercy Corps

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Organisation: Mercy Corps
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Mercy Corps is an international non-profit organization which
implements high-quality, analytical development programmes in very difficult
places. Mercy Corps has been operating in Uganda since 2006. It has and
continues to implement programs in Acholi and Karamoja sub regions. Mercy Corps
is taking a community-led, market driven approach to address poverty and food
insecurity needs through interventions that get to the root causes and
contributing factors of economic vulnerability. Donors include the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID), DFID, Mastercard
Foundation, WALMART Foundation, Coca Cola Africa Foundation, US Depart of State
(DOS) /PEPFAR, and Nike Foundation.
About BRACED Project:
BRACED Mercy Corps is a consortium led by Mercy Corps that includes
TANGO Intl, Makerere University, University of Nairobi and Wajir South
Development Association (WASDA). BRACED Mercy Corps is being implemented in
northern Uganda (Karamoja) as well as northern Kenya (Wajir County). The BRACED
Mercy Corps programme is designed around three integrated thematic focus areas
– Natural Resource Management and Lands, Market Systems Development and
Governance and Gender Mainstreaming. We are in search of an inquisitive
individual to support project staff in conducting research and gathering and
analysing quantitative and qualitative data to help communicate the program’s
impact to various audiences – stakeholders, donors and internal Mercy Corps
team members.
Job Summary: The Program
Officer-Agriculture will work directly with community based Field Agents and
community members to help build sustainable food production and access,
increase access to land and water resources for both human and livestock
consumption; plus employ innovative methods for land restoration, watershed and
water resource management, energy conservation and alternative energy solutions
and climate-smart agriculture.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:   
  • Engage with communities to establish
    priorities for community-led natural resources management, provide
    sustainable agricultural practices and implementation of identified pilot
    opportunities for agriculture resilience and design concepts, permagardens
    and demo plots
  • Regularly monitor Field Agent performance
    and ensure activities are being implemented at a high quality
  • Work alongside Natural Resource Management
    team to ensure that agriculture related activities outlined in Resilience
    Adaptation Committees (RAC) Action Plans are met
  • Support Agriculture and NRM Team Leaders
    in distribution of capital grants to community level RACS
  • Provide guidance and expertise on
    agriculture methods and best practices in semi-arid/arid lands
  • Work with the markets team to ensure
    market facilitation activities around agriculture inputs – seeds, tillage
    – are understood and accessed by community groups. Further, support
    markets in improving retailer capacity and linkages to suppliers
  • 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.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps
    BRACED Program Officer-Agriculture job opportunity should possess a Bachelor’s
    degree in a related field of expertise (e.g. Agriculture, Natural Resource
    Management, 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;
  • Basic 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.
  • Working knowledge and experience in either
    livestock or rangeland management, irrigation, water harvesting or water
    saving methods in arid lands.
  • Previous exposure, experience and proven
    track record in rural development and participatory appraisal.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their
E-mail applications including a cover letter clearly stating the salary
requirements, updated CV (with three professional referees), and copies of
academic qualifications/certificates addressed to the Senior HR and Legal
Manager, Mercy Corps Uganda to: ug-mcjobs@mercycorps.org
Deadline:  2nd February 2017
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