Field Assistant at CGIAR Consortium

Job Responsibilities

• To supervise on-farm farmer participatory demonstration /trails
• To travel within the participating communities and providing technical support to women groups Lead Farmers and Farmers.
• To interact and assist in the capacity development of Youth groups
• To interact with the farmers, researchers and ICRISAT partners
• To record scientific data. including the collection of information about the farmers and their groups
• To assist in developing Market linkages among stakeholders
• Assist with the distribution of inputs for demonstration/trials
• Assist in training of extension agents, lead farmers, students and visiting trainees
• Carry out any other task assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• A minimum of HND/NCE in General Agriculture or related discipline.
• Experience in interacting with women farmer groups
• Interest and ability to work in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams
• Candidate must be honest and hardworking.
• Willingness to travel as per needs of the job
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with pleasing personality
• Fluency in local language is an added advantage

Key Competencies
Abilities:

• Must have experience with community-based projects implementation and/or small-holder-oriented developement initiatives are desirable
• Demonstrated ability to carry out ToT capacity building program and farmers groups trainings
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including presentations