Senior Research Associate- Agriculture Value Chain Transformation Vacancy at CIAT

Job Description

The Senior Research Associate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, accompanying and the roll-out of different stakeholder engagements, sustainable farming and related research activities. This role will focus on climate adaptation and regenerative agriculture options to increase productivity and enhance climate change resilience and landscape sustainability.

Responsibilities

Planning, coordinating, accompanying and the roll-out of different stakeholder engagements, sustainable farming and related research activities.
Guiding the project team in championing interventions that will increase productivity and enhance climate change resilience and landscape sustainability in a gender equitable and inclusive manner.
Supporting the adaptive capacity of the SMES and the landscape partners among them smallholder farmers in light of the evolving climate risks through improving productivity, enhancing soil and landscape health.
Supporting SMES design market strategies for adopting climate adaptation inputs and practices, including crop diversification, climate smart and conservation/regenerative agriculture through the project established multi-stakeholder Innovation Platforms.
Building and coordinating ongoing public and private sector support to climate-resilient smallholder production, value chain co-ordination and market access.
Guiding all landscape resilience interventions including capacity building of SMEs, farmers and relevant institutions, development of value chains and promotion of climate smart innovations in close collaboration with existing Government and other partners.
Supporting program planning and coordinating implementation working with other project team members.
Representing CIAT in dialogues relating to Growing Together Tanzania.
Supporting SMEs develop value chain-based CSA packages, deploy and monitor their implementation in the project selected regions.
Supporting development of capacity strengthening of the SMEs and smallholder farmers on scaling up climate resilient/regenerative agricultural production and diversification through increased access to climate resilient inputs, practices, and markets.
Upgrading data collection sharing platforms and protocols for knowledge management on climate resilient agricultural systems.
Participating in sector convening dialogues on sustainable production, CSA, Regenerative Agriculture to share knowledge and best practice from the project.
Liaising closely with the procurement specialist, gender specialist, agronomists, seed experts, markets experts to ensure smooth implementation of all project activities.
Producing quarterly reports on project performance and deliver Requirements.

Requirements

Experience in implementing agricultural value chain transformation and climate smart agriculture projects.
Experience with climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector.
Experience working with diverse partners among them private sector (such as offtakers/traders, processors etc), government institutions, NGOs and local farming communities.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
Demonstrated understanding of issues related to gender and Climate Change Adaptation, sustainable agriculture.
Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis and report writing.
Good understanding of national and state government priorities, policies and planning process in climate change in Tanzania.
Project life cycle experiences.