Agriculture Jobs in Tigray Page 9

Oromia Water Works Design and Supervision EnterpriseExternal Vacancy AnnouncementJob Title: Senior Water Shade Management Expert- Name of Project / Process/: Different Irrigation Projects - Salary: 13,772.00- Terms of Contract: 1 year- Req. No: 3

Oromia Water Works Design and Supervision EnterpriseExternal Vacancy AnnouncementJob Title: Senior Agronomist- Name of Project / Process/: Different Irrigation Projects - Salary: 13,772.00- Terms of Contract: 1 year- Req. No: 2

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)Vacancy Announcement Position: Project ManagerMain Responsibilities:• Manage project cycle planning of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) Honey project, including reviewing and reaffirming time-lines of key project activities, outputs and milestones as specified in the project proposal;• Take a lead role in the field level implementation of project activities and coordinating them with related activities of collaborating institutions at Region, Zone and Woreda levels, in particular in the establishment and running of the eight honey and beeswax marketplaces;• Pro-actively work with project team members and collaborators to ensure operations of the marketplaces, including the sourcing, proper collection and aggregation of crude honey, processing, packaging and marketing of final products in compliance with applicable standards, through regular follow ups and supervision with each of the project field assistants;• In consultation with the project leader and other members of the YESH Project team, facilitate collaboration with partner institutions, organize skills development training workshops in entrepreneurship, beekeeping, financial handling and marketing, to project beneficiary youth, and coordinate the identification of suitable buildings for the setup of marketplaces, their rehabilitation works and making them operational in each of the eight project Woredas;• Take primary responsibility for routine data collection on project activities and documentation of relevant information on progress of implementation of the project, as well as contribute to public communication on lessons learnt in implementation of the project;• Write monthly brief progress updates, as well as bi-annual and annual technical reports of the project and submit to project leader;• Contribute to the drafting of new project concept notes, proposals and write scientific manuscripts for publication;• Perform other project specific duties as requested by the project leaderMinimum Base salary:• Birr 43,956 per month (Negotiable depending on experience, skill and salary history of the candidate)- Duty Station: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.- Terms of appointment: Initial appointment is for three years renewable appointment based on performance and funding availability. icipe offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits in line with ILRI salary applicable for its Nationally Recruited Staff. icipe is an international and equal opportunity organization and believes that diversity of its staff contributes to excellence.

Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association (EWNRA)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Project CoordinatorDuties and responsibilities: • Under the supervision of and reporting to EWNRA Management the Project Coordinator is responsible for overall project implementation, management and administration, planning, and reporting, project level human resources and other resources management, coordination of all field operations as well coordination with stakeholders, local level project implementing partners and establishing smooth working relation with communities and government offices within the project intervention Woredas. She/he has to have good experience in participatory approaches and have full commitment to implement the project in bottom up approach.In addition has to handle the following specific duties and responsibilities:a. Lead day-to-day project implementations and provide technical input to the project team on integrated project interventions to attain concrete results in participatory community development, adaptation to climate change, and methods of sustainable natural resources management,b. Undertake regular field visit to the community in intervention woredas, kebeles and villages and monitor project progress;c. Coordinate all capacity building trainings identified in the project and involve in capacity building activities and/or trainings in her/his area of specialization:d. Properly manage project data/information and develop analytical and educative materials in line with project objectives to share best practices and popularize the achievements;e. Represent the project in various discussions, debates within and other project related discussions; and report project achievements;f. Produce field manual/guidelines for community level development workers and simple educative materials understandable at community level;g. Play a leading role in the facilitation of the participatory planning processes, the identification of needs and preferences of communities/user groups of the project; and facilitate formation of community level associations (relevant to the project) in collaboration with other project staffs;h. Participate and contribute in staff discussions with regard to promoting integrated approaches (wetlands, forests, agro-ecosystems, climate change, livelihood, etc.);i. Report progresses on daily, weekly, monthly and follow up the preparation of quarterly and annual reports to be submitted to the Main Office as deemed necessary.j. Perform other organizational and project related tasks that may be required by the EWNRA Main Office.k. Check and confirm acceptance of weekly and monthly action plans from all staffsl. Organize and chair regular staffs meetings both technical and administrativem. Check with the PPME officer timely submission of accurate reports and data from all staffs and report to the head officen. Undertake regular field monitoring of activities and consultations with beneficiaries/communities. Assess project related risks and propose mitigation action on proactively- Number required: 1- Duty Station: Guangua Township (7 kilometers from Dilla Town) with extensive travail to Project Intervention Woredas (Abbaya and Gelana Woredas)- Female candidates are encouraged to apply for the post.- Salary: As per the organization’s scale- Terms of employment: With 45 days of provisional period for one year contract with possibility of renewal for additional two years on annual basis.- Closing date: Dec. 11, 2018 and only short listed applicants will be contacted.

Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association (EWNRA)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Agronomist (Crop/ Horticulture/ Coffee)Under supervision of and accountable to the Gelana Sub Office Project Assistant Coordinator the Crop/Horticulture/Coffee Agronomist will be in charge of project activities to be implemented within local communities in Gelna woreda. Responsible for implementation of project activities which include interactive training and learning support on crop and vegetable production, coffee management, nursery and seedling management, coffee processing, taking actions in collaboration with project intervention woredas agriculture and coffee institution, responsible for preparing monthly reports for the activities undertaken within the woreda to the facilitators and PPME Officer, keep appropriate records of community members who are supported by the project. Work in close collaboration with other staff members within the project.Specific responsibilities Includes:a. Organize and facilitate/undertake capacity building activities/trainings in various topics such as crop and vegetable production, coffee management, coffee processing, nursery and seedling management and vegetable marketing.b. In dose collaboration with kebele level Development Workers, facilitate the selection of community members that directly benefit through project intervention activities through vegetable production and coffee management,c. Involve in data collection, processing and keep proper records of community members who have benefited from the project intervention in vegetable and coffee and report accordingly,d. Follow up and support farmers who involve in vegetable production and marketing and coffee management,e. Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual action plans and reports and submit to the project office and the PPME Officer,f. Closely work with community groups, kebele and cooperative offices,g. Involve starting from beneficiaries selection, distribution of vegetable and coffee seeds and seedlings, and support farmers who Involve in vegetable production and marketing; coffee management,h. Provide technical input on vegetable and coffee management, work in close collaboration with project kebele level development facilitators, kebele administration, cooperative leaders, development workers and woreda level expertsi. Elaborate training and extension materials related to vegetable and coffee management,j. Contribute to the design of training program for community members incorporating issues related to vegetable and coffee managementk. Any other activity that may be required by the project sub office coordinators.- Number required: 1- Duty Station: Tore Township, Gelana Woreda- Female candidates are encouraged to apply for the post.- Salary: As per the organization’s scale- Terms of employment: With 45 days of provisional period for one year contract with possibility of renewal for additional two years on annual basis.- Closing date: Dec. 11, 2018 and only short listed applicants will be contacted.

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)Vacancy Announcement Position: Scientist - Climate Information and Agro-Advisory The position• Farmers in East Africa need to increase agricultural productivity and achieve food and nutrition security through adoption of appropriate climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, technologies, and institutional innovations to effectively adapt to climate variability and change. CCAFS works with the national agricultural research and extension agencies, climate institutes and weather forecast centers, NGO’s and CGIAR centers to develop climate information services, farm technologies and management systems based on high resolution spatial modeling applications such as the CCAFS Regional Agricultural. Forecasting Toolbox (CRAFT) and CCAFS Agricultural Monitor (CAM) around a set of crops and along value chains that are well adapted to East Africa. The use of system modelling tools in association with seasonal and sub-seasonal climate forecasts enable researchers to identify intervention strategies and points of intervention in the farm-value chain that result in the greatest returns for the lowest risk. With increased focus on developing climate risk and vulnerability profiles and identifying target regions more to environmental changes, CCAFS is retooling to undertake multidisciplinary research for development and systems approaches.• The Climate Smart Agriculture project is implemented by the CGIAR research program Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in East Africa (CCAFS EA) that is hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in the region, in cooperation with SNV Netherlands Development Organization, Wageningen University and Research, Agriterra and Rabo Partnership. The project will provide an opportunity to farmers to adapt their farming activities and minimize the negative effects of climate change by adopting innovative climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices along value chains, thereby contributing to the increased availability of safe and affordable nutritious food for the growing population in the region. The scientist will play a key role in developing climate change scenarios from available model outputs, perform data analytics using CRAFT, CCAFS Agricultural Monitor (CAM) and other relevant approaches and procedures for downscaling climate information, and using a range of analytical techniques for understanding modelled scenario information at different scales of relevance for East Africa. The scientist will also support other related activities across other bilateral projects.Responsibilities:• Identify key issues constraining starting-up or doing business in the different agri-food chains and sub sectors in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and the implications for climate smart agriculture and food systems in these countries;• Lead the development of climate risk and vulnerability analysis along agricultural value chains;• Initiate effective engagement with relevant national government and regional organizations, CGIAR centers, private sector and other relevant stakeholders, and lead development of climate information services to support development of effective climate information and agro-advisory services for farmers;• Develop and lead climate-informed and safety net interventions for the target countries in East Africa;• Contribute to on-going research in climate risk management, assessing climate change vulnerabilities and impacts, and planning for adaptation;• Support use and analysis of climate modelling experiments (outputs) at different time scales, seasonal and sub-seasonal climate forecast information services and modeling/generation of future climate change scenarios and associated research on choice of CSA technologies;• Provide analytical expertise in big data analytics for developing CRAFT, CAM and other approaches to understand temporal and spatial dynamics and change in crop-based systems, such as developing high resolution crop, climate, soil and crop management data for agricultural systems models in multi-point simulations to support climate information services and agro-advisories, and develop digital fertilizer recommendations in collaboration with other CCAFS partners;• Coordinate and design integrated digital agricultural data hub, agricultural decision support platform and advisories, as well as decision support tools (DSTs), and test effectiveness of DSTs in the field and value-chains;• Identify opportunities for mitigation (reduction of GHG and increase of carbon sequestration) within the business cases along the agricultural value-chain;• Support research on barriers to adoption of climate-smart technologies and practices, and enabling environment hurdles as part of CCAFS scaling and policy engagement efforts;• Support creating an enabling policy environment, linkage and influencing of national climate plans and priority setting for targeted investments that support scaling of interventions under climate change scenarios to support CCAFS’s scaling and policy engagement efforts;• Provide technical and strategic support to further develop relevant public and private meteorological services in the target countries;• Collaborate with and lead interdisciplinary teams from CCAFS South-South Initiative, CGIAR centers, regional NARES, development partners (e.g. SNV, IFAD, GIZ, USAID etc.) and higher education institutions to further develop and contextualize CAM for weather deviations and crop loss assessment for national and regional area yield index insurance schemes;• Strengthen capacity of partners and engagement with CCAFS strategic partners from international, regional and national universities through co-supervising undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students; and• Contribute to the resource mobilization efforts of CCAFS in collaborations with other CGIAR Research Programs and CCAFS partners through writing research proposals.- Post location: The position will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- Position level: The position level is 4C- Duration: 3 years with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and continued funding.- Benefits: ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes medical insurance, life insurance and allowances for: education, housing, home leave, and annual holiday entitlement of 30 days + public holidays.- Closing Date: December 31, 2018

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)Vacancy Announcement Position: TAAT Wheat Value Chain Project - Technology Transfer SpecialistThe Position: The African Development Bank has funded through its African Development Fund "Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) program, which is a flagship initiative in support of the Bank's Feed Africa Strategy. The objectives of the TAAT Program are to scale up proven agricultural technologies and achieve a widespread and transformative impact on African agriculture in terms of enhancing productivity, food security, income and poverty alleviation.ICARDA is implementing the wheat component within the frame of TAAT Program, which will be executed in low-income African countries. The project activities are conducted within BCI program in close collaboration with the National Agricultural Research and Extension System (NARES,) private sector and other relevant partners in the project target countries.ICARDA seeks to hire a TAAT Wheat Value Chain Project - Technology Transfer Specialist to provide a technical support in scaling up activities and participate in establishing and operationalizing innovation platforms (IP)s. The position provides critical support to national partners to link IP participating farmers with output markets and who will be a member of ICARDA-Ethiopia team.Key Responsibilities:• Participate and support national partners in establishing and operationalizing functional IPs at selected sites in project target countries;• Provide technical support for implementing scaling up activities in partnership with NARES, private sector and other stakeholders in each project target country;• Contribute to technology dissemination activities, seed production, and prototype mass production through promoting a participatory research for development approach;• Provide technical and coordination support to organize field days for promoting and expanding IP based success stories and best practices leading to a transformative and nation-wide impact in each target country and across the similar agro-ecology;• Coordinate and support regional and national partners to link IP participating farmers with output markets;• Develop/enhance/expand collaboration and networking among all partners involved in the wheat value chain in the target agro-ecology;• Organize and participate focused and hands-on trainings with national partners to build capacity of farmers and stakeholders on improved production and post-harvest management techniques in the target countries;• Coordinate and assist national partners in preparing and widely distributing technical production manuals, fliers, leaflets, brochures for IP participating farmers and stakeholders in the target countries;• Participate and assist in organizing annual planning and joint coordination meeting with project partners;• Perform any other duties as required by the PIU coordinator.- Duty Station: Addis Ababa. - Job level: 3C.- Monthly Base Salary: Birr 51,874 (Negotiable depending on experience, skill and salary history of the candidate)- Terms of appointment: This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position, initial appointment is for three years. ICARDA offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits in line with ILRI salary applicable for its Nationally Recruited Staff.The ILRI campus is set in a secure, attractive campus with dining and sports facilities.

Hiber Sugar Share CompanyVacancy Announcement Position: Senior Farm Operations Manager- Working Place: Project site (Jawi)- Required: 1

PIB PLCImmediate Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Export Officer- Required: 2- Work/Office Location: Saris- Salary: Negotiable and Attractive

Belayneh Kindie Import & Export CompanyVacancy AnnouncementPosition: Agronomist- No. Required: 1 - Terms of Employment: Permanent- Salary: Negotiable and attractive- Place of Work: Addis Ababa