Climate Change Adaptation Specialist

Transforming Indus Basin with Climate Resilient Agriculture and Water Management in Punjab and Sindh Provinces.

The overall goal of the project is to enhance the capacity of agricultural and pastoral sectors to cope with climate change, by up scaling farmers' adoption of climate change adaptation technologies and practices through a network of already established Farmers Field Schools.

The position will facilitate field level interventions for establishment of Climate Business Field School (CBFS), Farmer Field Schools for Women (FFS-W), and Climate Resilient Agriculture (CRA) demonstration sites.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Oversight and quality assurance of the implementation of Letter of Agreements with service provider(s) for the FFS outreach
• Support service provider(s) to implement an integrated and holistic community outreach
• Facilitate the service provider(s) to develop detailed but realistic community outreach plans for empowering livestock farmers through FFS and community-wide interventions
• Coordinate routine engagements with the relevant technical departments at district level for joint planning, technical backstopping, and supervision of the community outreach activities
• Quality assurance of the community outreach ensuring that the guidelines for implementing good quality FFS on livestock are followed
• Establish and manage demonstration plots including conducting needs assessment and stakeholder meetings
• Perform demo plot profiling and prepare a profiling report
• Identify the training and visibility materials using SOPs and request the provision of the materials from the LP and DTL
• Contribute to fine-tuning or improving the CBFS and WOS curriculum during the adaptive research demo plot studies
• Share the outcomes of the research on a timely manner
• Contribute to the CBFS and WOS curricula with special attention to the communication and visibility strategy of the project
• Assist in establishing further demo plots by the service providers under an LoA between FAO and a Service provider
• Plan and conduct field days using the SOPs and prepare a report on the field days before and after
• Facilitate and contribute to the local level ToT for extension officers, staff and/or employees from partner organisations on women open schools activities
• Provide continuous backstopping to the Farmer Facilitators, Government Extension Workers and Partner Projects/NGO/Private Sector Company Facilitators and RSPNs facilitators for women open schools
• Closely work with the CBFS and WOS facilitators in interacting with the testing and validation of the ongoing CBFS/WOS practices on the adaptive research demo plots
• Assist district team leader and sectoral specialist in the day-to-day monitoring of CBFS/WOS interventions and compile monthly monitoring sheets
• Document, report and develop database based on the progress of trained beneficiaries' information
• Identify and develop case studies and success stories for periodic reports
• Ensure timely submission of WOS monthly work plan and progress reports to supervisor

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Master's degree in agriculture, water management, irrigation agribusiness
• Minimum 5 years of experience in agricultural research (quantitative and qualitative)
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Farmer Field School (FFS) or agriculture extension
• Working knowledge of English and working knowledge of Urdu, Sindh, and local languages used in province
• National of Pakistan

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work on a project focused on climate resilient agriculture and water management
• Chance to collaborate with international partners and experts
• Professional development opportunities in areas such as project management, community outreach, and data analysis

Others:

• FAO seeks gender, geographical, and linguistic diversity in its staff and international consultants
• Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa requirements, and security clearances