Job status: Inactive
Job category: Local Position
Duty station: Nairobi, Kenya
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Agricultural Economist
Overview
The Agricultural Economist will provide Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of vegetable business networks in the Veggies 4 Planet & People Project.Duties and responsibilities
- Facilitation
of monitoring and evaluation processes of vegetable business networks engaged
in regenerative agricultural technologies and post-harvest practices.
· Train business coaches and partners to collect quality data.
· Implement, monitor, collect and report data.
· Conduct preliminary analysis.
· Participatory M&E processes with farmers, partners, and researchers.
· Report findings and conclusions - Manage
an on-line database of vegetable business networks (VBNs), VBN members,
business coaches and project eventsin AkvoFlow.
- Facilitate
profitability studies of vegetable production and vegetable businesses.
- Conduct
end-line evaluation study of the project.
- In
liaison with stakeholders, colleagues, and partners, promote innovations and
processes that improve efficiencies in the vegetable value chains.
- Promote
youth and gender empowerment in vegetable business networks through
implementing partners.
- Document
evidence and lessons learned into high quality documents or media for
dissemination.
- Liaise
with Media Officer and media partners to influence behavioral change of
producers towards adoption of generative technologies and circular
agri-business practices.
- Produce
research briefs to influence policy towards a more enabling environment for
vegetable business networks and sustainable agricultural practices.
- Technical
progress and other evaluation reports of grammatically correct and scientific
standards.
- Facilitate
partner meetings and learning events.
- Perform
any other duties assigned by the Kenya Country Director.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in
agri-business, socioeconomics, or other related sciences.
- Minimum three years’ experience in an international
non-governmental organization (NGO) or company.
- Proven experience in
qualitative and quantitative evaluation studies, baseline studies, and impact
assessments.
- Proven ability to
extract evidence and lessons learned from evaluation exercises and turn these
into high quality documents for dissemination.
- Proven experience in
profitability studies.
Education, knowledge and experience
- Master’s degree in agri-business, socioeconomics, or other related sciences.
- Minimum three years’ experience in an international non- governmental organization (NGO) or company.
- Proven experience in qualitative and quantitative evaluation studies, baseline studies, and impact assessments.
- Proven ability to extract evidence and lessons learned from evaluation exercises and turn these into high quality documents for dissemination.
- Proven experience in profitability studies.
Terms and conditions
- This is a Locally Recruited Staff (LRS) position. ICRAF offers competitive remuneration in local currency, commensurate with skills and experience.
Application process
The application deadline is 31 May-2023We will acknowledge all applications, but will contact only short-listed candidates.
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