Agricultural Partnership Facilitator

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Agricultural Partnership Facilitator to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to make a real difference in the lives of farmers and rural communities.

About the Job

The Agricultural Partnership Facilitator will play a key role in implementing a project aimed at developing climate-resilient agriculture practices in Punjab and Sindh Provinces. The successful candidate will be responsible for facilitating field-level interventions, establishing Farmer Field Schools, and providing technical support to local stakeholders.

Main Responsibilities

• Oversight and quality assurance of the implementation of Letters of Agreement with service providers
• Supporting service providers in implementing integrated community outreach programs
• Facilitating the development of community outreach plans for empowering livestock farmers through Farmer Field Schools and community-wide interventions
• Cordinating routine engagements with technical departments at the district level for joint planning, technical backstopping, and supervision of community outreach activities
• Quality assurance of community outreach, ensuring that guidelines for implementing good-quality Farmer Field Schools are followed
• Establishing and managing demonstration plots, conducting needs assessments, stakeholder meetings, and preparing meeting minutes
• Performing demo plot profiling and preparing profiling reports
• Identifying training and visibility materials using Standard Operating Procedures and requesting their provision from the Lead Partner and District Team Leader
• Contributing to fine-tuning or improving the Climate Business Field School and Women Open School curricula during adaptive research demo plot studies
• Sharing outcomes of research on a timely manner
• Contributing to the Climate Business Field School and Women Open School curricula with special attention to communication and visibility strategies
• Assisting in establishing further demo plots by service providers under LoAs between FAO and Service Providers
• Planning and conducting field days using SOPs and preparing reports before and after field days
• Facilitating and contributing to local-level ToTs for extension officers, staff, and/or employees from partner organizations on women open schools activities under Letters of Agreement
• Providing continuous backstopping to Farmer Facilitators, Government Extension Workers, and Partner Projects/NGOs/Private Sector Company Facilitators and RSPN facilitators for women open schools
• Closely working with CBFS and WOS facilitators in interacting with testing and validation of ongoing CBFS/WOS practices on adaptive research demo plots
• Assisting district team leaders and sectoral specialists in day-to-day monitoring of CBFS/WOS interventions and compiling monthly monitoring sheets (online/offline)
• Documenting, reporting, and developing databases based on progress of trained beneficiaries' information
• Identifying and developing case studies and success stories for periodic reports
• Ensuring timely submission of Women Open School monthly work plans and progress reports to supervisors

Required Skills and Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• A Master's degree in agriculture, water management, irrigation agribusiness, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in agricultural research (quantitative and qualitative) and 2 years of experience in Farmer Field School (FFS) or agriculture extension
• Working knowledge of English and local languages used in the province
• Nationality of Pakistan

Benefits

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to contribute to a project that aims to enhance the capacity of agricultural and pastoral sectors to cope with climate change.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please submit your application through the FAO recruitment portal. We encourage applicants to submit their applications well before the deadline date.