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Job Title ⇒ Agronomy Officer Site ⇒ ugandajobss.blogspot.com
Organization ⇒ Mercy Corps
Duty Station Uganda

About US
Mercy Corps is a global non-governmental, humanitarian aid organization
operating in transitional contexts that have undergone, or have been
undergoing, various forms of economic, environmental, social and political
instabilities

About the Project
Mercy Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very
difficult places. We have been operating in Uganda since 2006 and currently
implement development programs in the Acholi and Karamoja sub-regions of
Uganda with funding from USAID, EC, SDC, and USDA, WFP. We are currently
implementing a market-development focused 5-year USAID/Food for Peace-funded
program working in the northern and southern half of Karamoja Amudat, Moroto,
Karenga, Kaabong and Kotido districts and in search of competent and creative
persons to fill the positions of Agronomy Officer. The project, called Apolou
aims to support the immediate needs of program beneficiaries while promoting
long-term development by spurring systemic improvements in key economic
sectors of northern and Southern Karamoja.

Job Summary ⇒ The Agronomy Officer with support from the agronomy sector
team work to achieve a transformation of attitudes and behavior to improve the
economic future and quality of life of Apolo program beneficiaries. The
ability of the Officer to drive the implementation of effective agricultural
extension and advisory services for adoption of improved farming practices and
technologies will be the position’s primary success factors. The second will
be the degree to which the incumbent promotes and capture learning with
his/her team, institutionalizing activity reviews, identifying and evaluating
preconceptions and promoting a culture of inquisition. The third success
factor will be the degree to which the incumbent successfully incorporates
gender into program activities, not just by meeting gender beneficiary
targets, but also innovatively considering the specific needs of women farmers
and their constraints to farming time, land ownership, money, decision making
to mention a few.

He or she will be responsible for sphere heading and planning of agronomy
related trainings and monitoring with continuous reporting of the status of
the schools to the Agronomy Extension Team Lead together with good
collaboration with the different district agriculture bodies like the Sub
County Agriculture Officers and different Livelihoods partners such as Harvest
Plus and CIP.

The Agronomy officer will directly be in the frontline and responsible for
successful implementation and rolling-out of good farming practices in line
with the agronomy calendar through close and supportive monitoring of
Assistant agronomists and Agronomy graduate trainee in fields of which may
include crop rotation/intercropping, seedbed preparation, planting, weed, pest
and disease control measures, post harvest handling and storages, soil water
conservation, perma-gardening and crop/livestock integration through field
based training. He or she will support her team to foster adoption of farmers
to improved methods of conservation farming using a variety of methods to
reach farmers such as personal contact with farmers on their farm, organizing
study groups for farmers, establishment and management of crop demonstration
plots, farmer field days and exchange visits will be used in reaching out
farmers to promote adoption. The Officer will achieve this in liaison with his
key team members, AVAs lead or model farmers, MCGs, VSLAs, Youth groups,
Farmer groups, Enterprise Groups, Local government and Sub-county production
department, agro-input dealers, and other Apolo program staff. The
agricultural extension and advisory services will also include community based
Orange Flesh Sweet Potato and Iron beans and he or she will take lead with his
or her technical personnel to lead the farmers on ground and ensure promotion
of farmer scale up on production.

The main target is to promote crop diversification for proper and successful
utilization of quality agro-inputs improved seeds, equipments and tools,
fertilizers, crop protection chemicals to increase production and
productivity of the priority crops towards improved food security and
livelihoods of the program beneficiaries while addressing malnutrition
challenges in Northern and Southern Karamoja. In addition, the work involves
considerable monitoring and assessing agricultural conditions and results.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
⇗ Participate in developing messages, structures and systems to continually
improve Apolou`s Agricultural Private sector led Extension Services to improve
the productivity of poor farmers and help them turn that productivity into
improved food security and livelihoods. Focus is on crop production, vegetable
gardening and post-harvest handling.
⇗ Directly take lead in Apolou Agricultural Extension Work and supervise
field activities to ensure effective use of resources and successful targeting
of services to the most vulnerable beneficiaries’ farmers in northern and
Southern Karamoja.
⇗ Actively participate in community mobilization and sensitization for
adoption of best Famer field school agronomic practices.
⇗ Identify training needs, production constraints and devise solutions to
address the problems at hand for both the Assistant Agronomists and the
Farmers through the Assistant agronomists who will directly work with the
AVAs.
⇗ Supervise training of Apolou beneficiaries on selected topics in the
extension curriculum and Famer Field School and ensure training is in
accordance with the guidelines.
⇗ Identify technologies, practices, tools, equipment, varieties majorly on
conservation agriculture and partners that have the greatest potential to
improve the agricultural productivity of Northern and Southern Karamoja and
food security of the area’s most vulnerable, and engage/introduce them into
GHG.
⇗ Supervise and ensure the collection, compilation, verification, entry of
data and keep data on Apolou program beneficiaries to inform programming, this
will involve ensuring Assistant Agronomist are collecting all Agricultural
Village Agent`s monthly reports from the field.
⇗ Work hand in hand with the Market system development sector to guide and
link farmers to access genuine agro-input implements from agro-input dealers,
retailers, agents or stockiest.
⇗ Coordinate and work closely with district production department/sub county
authorities to ensure that they are informed about the program activities
through curtsey visits to the Sub county headquarters of program operation and
at the production department at the district.
⇗ Prepare timely training, workshop, weekly and monthly progress reports by
providing data to support evidence of tasks accomplished by all AVAs through
the Assistant Agronomists and other work plan activities accomplished and
submit to the Agronomy extension lead.
⇗ Represent the agronomy extension sector in any Apolou designated and
delegated agricultural extension and advisory services in northern and
Southern Karamoja.
⇗ Carryout verification of sector field submitted data by the Assistant
Agronomists through different modes verification such as AVAs reports to
capture the face and rate of farmer adoption to new technologies and better
farming practices, organize AVA field extension days among others.
⇗ Participate in organizing and conducting of monthly sector review meetings.
⇗ Conduct Timely annual performance reviews of the assigned Assistant
Agronomists
⇗ Give technical support and ground supervision of the Assistant Agronomists
and the Agronomy graduate trainees to ensure implementation of quality
demonstration plots, farmer field days, farmer exchange visits, and perma-
gardening and seed nurseries bed that may be supported by Apolou program.
⇗ Coordinate with other Apolou teams and partners, including but not limited
to Livestock, Market System development, Health System Strengthening, KAPDA,
RIAMRIAM, NARWA,AIDI
⇗ Incorporate gender mainstreaming into Apolo program activities, considering
the specific needs of women farmers and their constraints to farming time,
land ownership, money, decision making etc.
⇗ Participate in the program reviews, assessments, monitoring activities,
learning and evaluations.
⇗ Support the Agronomy Extension Team Lead with overall implementation of
agriculture activities; develop future follow-on activity and any task as
required.
⇗ Any other duty as assigned


Qualifications, Skills and Experience
⇗ The ideal candidate must hold a B.Sc. in PURELY Agronomy is desirable and
preferred field experience in agricultural extension services, agricultural
programming, Famer Field school, farmer training and community mobilization,
project planning, activities with women, and similar relevant activities can
apply.
⇗ Candidate must be a self starter, motivated and able to work independently
and take initiative. The successful candidate will also have excellent English
language, verbal and written communication skills; proficiency in
Ng’akarimojong is an added advantage preferable. Candidate must be willing to
and able to travel extensively throughout northern Karamoja districts or
program sites. Computer skill i.e. MS Office, MS excel and valid motorcycle
riding permit is an added advantage.
⇗ The ability of the Agronomy Officer to drive the implementation of
effective Famer agricultural extension services and the adoption of improved
conservation agriculture practices.
⇗ Ability to promote and capture learning with her/his team,
institutionalizing activity reviews, identifying and evaluating preconceptions
and promoting a culture of inquisition.
⇗ Degree to which that person successfully incorporates gender into program
activities, not just by meeting gender beneficiary targets, but also be
innovatively considering the specific needs of women farmers and their
constraints to farming time, land ownership money, etc..

How to Apply
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link
below

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Deadline 20 th July 2020

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