Planning Officer at Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development

Objectives

• The primary goal of VCDP is to reduce poverty and sustainably enhance accelerated economic growth, whilst the specific programme development objective (PDO) is to increase the incomes and enhance food security for 45,000 rural poor households engaged in the production, processing and marketing of rice and cassava in the targeted LGAs of the six targeted States are enhanced on a sustainable basis.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing planning, monitoring and evaluation support for efficient and effective implementation of donor assisted projects;
• Participate in project preparation and appraisal, impact studies implementation completion review and analysis;
• Participate in joint supervision missions to donor assisted projects/programmcs;
• Participate in seminars, workshops, meetings etc;
• Participation in the review of technical reports from consultants and other sources;
• Collaborates with other components on matters requiring statistical surveys, data collection and statistical interpretations;
• Liaising with other relevant bodies and institutions such as the Universities, NBS etc;
• Preparation of position paper on issues and policies covering all aspects of VCDP and FMARD;
• Accept other duties assigned from time to time by the PMEA and NPC.

Qualifications

• A minimum of First Degree in Agricultural Economics or Economics or Statistics;
• Minimum of 6 years post qualification work experience;
• Work experience with Donor assisted Projects an advantage;
• Must be computer literate.
• Working experience with International Donor Organizations will be an added advantage.

Conditions of Service

• Successful candidates will be engaged for a period of one year ONLY
• Candidates engagement is subject to renewal, which will be based on satisfactory performance upon evaluation and availability of funds.