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  • Posted: Jan 16, 2025
    Deadline: Jan 27, 2025
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    Beyond Beans Foundation is dedicated to developing, organizing and implementing projects across ETG’s commodity supply chains in collaboration with other companies, NGOs and government agencies. We aim to boost innovation and deliver maximum benefits for the farming communities and landscapes that form the backbone of our rapidly expanding supply chain...
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    Field Officer Environment

    The job

    • Beyond Beans team in Nigeria has been operating for over 5 years with diverse sustainability activities and collaboration with stakeholder organizations locally and globally. We are looking for a Field Officer Environment at our office in Ikom to play a crucial role in ensuring the effective implementation of environmental policies in our agricultural projects, engaging and training farmers, working directly with other field personnel and stakeholders to support/promote climate smart activities of Beyond Beans in Nigeria.

    Roles and Responsibilities

    • Motivate farmers to practice environmental practices such as climate-smart agriculture and agroforestry, making our training and support a success by engaging with the farmers in an informal manner, to build trust and a good relationship.
    • Implement activities aimed at achieving the targets for Beyond Beans’ Environment Projects, mainly within our commitments to Environment and Agroforestry. These include:
    • Cocoaching: Support individual project farmers in decision-making on farm business through individualized coaching on sustainable agricultural practices and create tailor-made plans for project farmers
    • Nurseries management: The establishment and support of shade tree and/or cocoa seedling nurseries
    • Seedling distribution: Coordination of cocoa seedling and shade tree distribution
    • Climate Smart Cocoa: Provide trainings to farmers
    • Input access: Assist farmers in obtaining and producing fertilizer, as well as in the correct use of agrochemicals, to improve yields.
    • Demo farms: Establishment of Demo farms, and host trainings on them to train farmers on best practices.
    • Report to the Agroforestry and Environment Supervisor on achievements and challenges on regular basis.

    Requirements

    • A well-motivated and proactive person
    • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
    • Ability to communicate in the local dialect (Ikom/Pidgin)
    • At least a bachelor’s degree in Agronomy or related courses such as resources, environmental sciences, or similar studies
    • At least 2 years of hands-on experience in crop production and an experience with extension services related to cocoa farm management and/ or Agroforestry would be an added advantage.
    • Successful candidates will be stationed in project locations across South-South, Nigeria
    • Knowledge of RA Certification is an added advantage
    • Technologically savvy and experienced in using digital data collection
    • Independent, capacity to work with little supervision as well as in a team
    • Ability & interest to mobilize and work with farmers in cocoa-growing communities
    • Can work under pressure and is keen to continuously learn and improve
    • Must be able to ride a motorcycle

    Method of Application

    Please send your application with relevant documents to Sylvester.Samuel@beyondbeans.org with Oyejoke.Oyeyemi@beyondbeans.org

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