Rural Development Advisor On Climate Smart Agriculture In The Coffee Value Chain

GIZ Uganda is recruiting a Rural Development Advisor to support smallholder coffee farmers to enhance sustainable agricultural practices, implement climate-smart strategies and ensure compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

Responsibilities

Knowledge and advisory services

• Support the development, translation into local languages and/ or dissemination of harmonised information on EUDR to smallholder farmers and their organisations.
  
• Support to EUDR awareness raising campaigns.
  
• Support the roll out of a common coffee traceability system ensuring compliance with EUDR.
  
• Strengthen smallholder farmers capacities to sustainable climate smart coffee production using existing training materials and resources; organize and facilitate training workshops and field demonstrations.
  
• Development or popularisation of procedures for smallholder farmers to access land use rights while paying special attention to female farmers.
  
• Supporting to train local government extension staff, smallholder farmers and their organisation on sustainable use of forest ecosystems.
  

Partnership coordination

• Cooperate and maintain regular contact with relevant parties from local government, civil society, research institutes, private sector and international agencies.
  
• Participate and contribute to relevant processes, fora, events and meetings on the national and sub-national level.
  
• Support the planning and implementation of study tours, visiting delegations, exchange visits, missions and other official events as required.
  
• Contribute to integrated planning and implementation of activities with other GIZ projects starting with the Rural Development focal area.
  

Project coordination

• Support to develop an adapted a Theory of Change, overall workplan and annual workplans.
  
• Support the preparation of terms of reference for service contracts or financing agreements in line with GIZ rules and regulations and supervise contracted third parties.
  
• Coordinate the implementation of project activities with members of the steering team, partners and contracted third parties.
  
• Provide monitoring data and contextual knowledge to contribute to reporting and public and internal communication.
  
• Organize internal and external events and meetings.
  

Other Duties/Additional Tasks

• Perform other duties and tasks at the request of management.
  

Requirements

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or a related field (preferably with a focus on sustainable supply chains and coffee production). A master’s degree in a related field is an added advantage.
  

Details of experience:

• 5years of professional experience in a comparable position.
  
• 5 years’ experience in providing advisory services on sustainability in agricultural supply chains to smallholder farmers
  
• Knowledge of the international discussion on sustainability in agricultural supply chains and forest preservation.
  
• Proven experience working in or in close cooperation with small-holder cooperatives and associations.
  
• Experience working for or in cooperation with the private sector in agricultural supply chains, particularly in the coffee sector
  
• Familiarity with the concept of due diligence, transparency and traceability in agricultural value chains
  

How to Apply:

Applications and CVs should be in one document and a maximum of 5 pages only and sent electronically, quoting the position and reference number.

Please include name and contact of three references. One official reference from your current workplace is a MUST.

Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply to the Head of Human Resources by email to vacancy@futureoptions.org