Economic Recovery Agriculture Assistant at Danish Refugee Council (DRC) - 4 Openings

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. DRC is present in more than 30 conflict territories around the world assisting displaced people with shelter, food, income-generating activities, and a wide range of other assistance. It is of utmost importance for DRC to work in compliance with the DRC Accountability and Quality Management system and national legislations. Smooth, reliable and effective operational systems are preconditions for DRC to maintain its position as a trustworthy and reliable partner for our donors and an accountable organisation towards our beneficiaries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Economic Recovery Agriculture Assistant

Location: Mubi / Yola, Adamawa
Job type: National contract
Slot: 4 Openings
Employment Period: Four (4) months with possibility of extension
Supervised by: EcRec Officer
Reporting to: EcRec Team Leader
Type of Contract (Expat/National/Trainee): National

Overall Purpose of the Role

• Support the Agric team to implement Economic Recovery Agriculture programming and support market systems development (MSD).
• Improve the agricultural production practices for farmers’ associations while assisting in developing social cohesion between members of the target communities through village loan & credit associations.

Responsibilities
Supporting in the implementation Agricultural activities and Market Systems Development (MSD) Approach:

• Work with stakeholders to select beneficiaries in the target communities.
• Provide agriculture livelihood guidance on an individual, group or association basis to increase beneficiaries’ awareness of different agricultural value chains.
• Provide information to beneficiaries about agricultural livelihoods and post-harvest value chain opportunities.
• Organize agricultural training on micro gardening and small farming management activities with beneficiaries
• Provide information to the beneficiaries on market opportunities and facilitate business linkage for improved agro-inputs vendors to increase ease of access and availability of inputs for smallholder farmers enterprise creation.
• Assist in the training, coaching and mentoring of farmers on improved agricultural production practices
• Assess the crops and agricultural input needed by beneficiaries and plan for the distributions in coordination with the farmers, community leaders and agriculture services
• Sensitize beneficiaries in the distribution process and inputs utilization for their production and management.
• Identify the farmers’ associations and input sellers in the communities and facilitate the networking.
• Work closely with Ministry of Agriculture Extension workers in facilitating crop farming/poultry production training for beneficiaries.
• Support the agricultural Team Leader in organizing training and other events related to the project.
• Write weekly, monthly, training and coaching activities reports.

Stakeholder and farmers associations coordination:

• Facilitate the establishment of farmers associations in coordination with village community leaders, agricultural services and local authorities,
• Coordinate farmer’s and stakeholders’ consultations for better activity implementation.
• Ensure farmers strictly apply the production techniques protocol provide to them. 
• Ensure the stakeholders are involved and consulted at all stages of project implementation.

Farmers' training and farmers field school implementation:

• Facilitate beneficiaries training sessions on improved agricultural technics.
• Maintain regular coaching and monitoring of implementation activities with all the project beneficiaries.
• Ensure information (success, challenges, etc.) and data are collected on time and shared with the EcRec Team Leader

Monitoring & Evaluation:

• Participate in the Market System Development and monitoring of activities involving - information, sensitization, beneficiary selection, production, beneficiary feedback about activities, etc.
• Ensure the project implementation data are collected and share to the Team Leader,
• Conduct regular field visits to selected beneficiaries, reporting, and other monitoring tools.
• Participate in the internal evaluation of the program.
• The responsibilities listed in the JD are not exhaustive and may be readjusted according to operational needs but will remain in line with the overall purpose of the role.

Key stakeholders: (internal and external)
Internal:

• Other programme staff.

External:

• Consortium partners
• Relevant government line ministries and departments
• Local authorities
• Other NGOs.

Requirements
Education: (include certificates, licenses etc.)

• University Degree or advanced training/ course in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, Social Science, International Affairs, Humanitarian or related field.

Experience and technical competencies: (include years of experience)
Essential:

• Experience in agriculture programming, training, farmer field school and coaching.
• Understanding humanitarian context (international NGO, UN agency or any relevant organization) in the country and the region.
• Two (2) years of working experience, in the field of agriculture extension and training of farmers is required.

Desirable:

• Previous work experience with humanitarian agencies
• Experience working with hosts, returnees and displaced populations.
• Previous experience working on Market Systems Development approaches.

Languages: (indicate fluency level)

• Fluency in written and spoken English is a must.
• Fluency in local spoken languages is an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
3rd January, 2025 at midnight (GMT time).