Job Vacancy For Technical Officer At Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) \u2013 Upper West Region<\/p>\n
The Water Catchment, Storage and Irrigation project is an applied research, pilot project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Grand Challenges Exploration program.<\/p>\n
The goal of this pilot is to identify technologies that will allow women in northern Ghana to extend the season during which they can grow food for their families, thus improving household food security.<\/p>\n
To achieve this goal, the project will test a range of household scale water catchment and storage systems that can be combined with irrigation systems.\u00a0 At least two systems that pass initial tests will then be user-tested through installation in homes of volunteers.\u00a0 The project team will engage private suppliers of equipment and components at each stage of the project with the aim of stimulating commercial distribution of successfully tested systems to communities across northern Ghana.<\/p>\n
The Technical Officer will work closely with the Project Technical Lead to investigate existing water catchment and storage technologies.\u00a0 The Technical Officer will build\/assemble test equipment, monitor performance, document effectiveness, and provide evidence for selection of the most promising technologies to be promoted. During the second phase of testing, the Technical Officer will work directly with households to facilitate installation of systems, monitoring use and effectiveness, documenting any issues that make management, maintenance or use by women difficult.\u00a0 Demonstrate integration of the storage system with irrigation equipment. As a member of the project team, the Technical Officer will develop strong relationships with all stakeholders and promote the value of water catchment, storage and irrigation as a means to improve household food security.<\/p>\n
This full time, 18-month position reports to the Project Technical Lead.<\/p>\n
Duties<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Working closely with the Project Technical Lead, build test systems, monitor performance, document effectiveness and provide evidence for selection of the most promising systems to be promoted. Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Experience with rainwater catchment and harvesting technologies Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Upper West Region<\/p>\n How To Apply For The Job<\/strong><\/p>\n Please submit letter of application and resume to:-<\/p>\n lkadiri@meda.org<\/strong><\/p>\n Closing Date:<\/strong>\u00a018 November, 2013<\/p>\n Please do not submit application if you do not meet the qualifications as stated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Job Vacancy For Technical Officer At Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) \u2013 Upper West Region The Water Catchment, Storage and Irrigation project is an applied research, pilot project funded by…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jobs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-302","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Work closely with community leaders and women volunteers to facilitate installation of test systems in households in selected communities.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Document the household level tests, monitoring effectiveness, ease of use, water utilization, etc.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Demonstrate integration of the storage unit with irrigation systems.\u00a0 Monitor the effectiveness of this integration and the ability of women to extend the planting season.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Develop and maintain strong relationships with local leaders, heads of participating households and commercial suppliers of equipment.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Monitor the success of the pilot using the established tools and processes.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Contribute to regular reporting both narrative progress reports as well as financial reports.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Carry out tasks as assigned by the Project Technical Lead<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Minimum of 2 years\u2019 experience in construction and\/or equipment services business
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Reliable and capable of working independently
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Experience working on women-focused programs.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Engineering, Management, Business, or other related field.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Appreciation and support of MEDA\u2019s faith, values and goals<\/p>\n