NGO JOBS

Organization: GRM International
Country: United Arab Emirates
Closing date: 08 Oct 2013

About the role:

To provide high quality extension services to FSC’s end users and other parts of agricultural value chains, enabling improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, profitability, and sustainability of agriculture.

Key responsibilities include:

• To encourage farm owners to adopt better practice through exposure to  new knowledge, information, skills,  inputs and processes (especially technical, management, market) to improve the long term performance of their farm businesses;
• To develop the capacity of farm managers, supervisors, and workers to adopt and implement better practice through exposure to new knowledge, information, skills, inputs and processes to improve the long term performance of their farm businesses;
• To provide technical services for farmers in key parts of value chains where it is more effective and efficient for this capacity to remain with FSC or associated agencies (e.g. for integrated pest and disease management, improved date management,  veterinary services, irrigation, and analytical services).
• To develop closer relationships and improved engagement with other parts of the value chain, especially input suppliers and customers to ensure quality inputs, including new products; as well as to track market needs and quality requirements;
• To ensure a continued flow of new knowledge and innovation, across a range of technical, management and market disciplines, through formal and informal relationships;
• To generate public awareness on important agricultural issues (especially the advantages of local production, quality, and safety), as well as to communicate all aspects of FSC to the stakeholders

About you:

Selection Criteria:

• University degree in Agriculture (or related science) or Rural Development, possibly with post graduate skills in either  horticulture, date palm production, fodder production or livestock husbandry
• Minimum of 5 years practical experience of agriculture/horticultural production in arid areas where water and salinity management is a key issue;
• Experience in working within a multi-layered organizational structure with an international staffing profile and operating out of several dispersed offices;
• Knowledge and practical work experience in the field of agricultural extension, farm advisory work and/or small farmer training and development;
• Knowledge of the application of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP);
• Ability to prepare  simple training and extension messages for farm workers, farm managers and farm owners/investors
• Ability to work in Arabic and English language, with potential to work in Hindi, Urdu or Bengali.

How to apply:

Interested?

To apply please email your resume to Jawaher Ahmed Ali Al Obaidli: Jawaher.Alobaidli@adfsc.ae with the subject: Senior Extension Officer – UAE before the 08th of October 2013.

Applications close on 08th of October 2013