Training Officer at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Training Officer

Job Requisition ID: IITA/P&C/NRS2023-043
Location: Kaduna
Job type: Contract
Duration: 1-year renewable contract

Duties

• Lead the management and implementation of youth training in Kaduna state
• Coordinate all efforts of all identified partners in contributing to training activities in Kaduna State
• Assist with the selection of trainee cohort and inputs to the trainee database
• Assist with the identification and screening of sites for training and incubation
• Determine the equipment needs of training sites and advice for upgrade
• Lead training of trainers for identified facilitators
• Integrate promising advanced agricultural technologies into curriculum, attachments, and incubation.
• Assist with the development of a curriculum that reflects private sector needs and standards of competency.
• Supervise and monitor trained youths alongside the M/E officer(s).
• Assist the State Coordinator in drafting training and activity progress reports and other reports from the locations as required.
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• B.Sc / HND in Agriculture Extension or Social Science-related courses with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience performing similar role in a well-structured environment.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Be computer literate with a good working knowledge of computer-based control systems, shared network drives, and Excel packages.
• Be experienced in working with youths.
• B experienced in designing agribusiness training curriculum for youths.
• Have good team working skills and must be able to share all relevant information with colleagues and users pro-actively at the right time.
• Have good manners in showing flexibility, respect, friendliness, and cooperation.
• Have good personality and interpersonal relationships as well as excellent communication skills.

Application Closing Date
5th October, 2023.