He \/ she will support all activities related to sustainable agriculture, environmental management and safeguarding, climate smart agricultural practices in the project activities. Will also actively participate in the designing, executing, monitoring, and reporting on all environment and safeguarding activities implemented in the project<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title: Programme Associate (Food systems \u2013 Environment and Safeguarding)<\/strong><\/p>\n MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n Under the overall supervision of the Head of Programme\/DCD, the technical supervision of the Sustainable Food Systems Coordinator in Accra, the Programme Associate will be expected to perform the following duties:<\/p>\n \u2022 Take lead in promoting activities and programmes aimed at mainstreaming climate smart initiatives and activities in all project activities. Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Education<\/p>\n \u2022 First degree in Environmental studies, Natural Resources Management, Agricultural sciences, Development studies or other related fields. Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Technical skills and knowledge in human rights, Project management, Sustainable Agriculture (Climate smart agriculture), Gender mainstreaming Language:\u00a0<\/strong>Fluency and good command of the English language (oral and written) is essential. French will be an added value.<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He \/ she will support all activities related to sustainable agriculture, environmental management and safeguarding, climate smart agricultural practices in the project activities. Will also actively participate in the designing,…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"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":[85],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-hd4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66158"}],"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\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 In liaison with Program Policy Officers and partners jointly promote Climate Smart Agriculture Initiatives among Smallholders and Communities and ensure climate practices are integrated into agricultural production practices.
\n\u2022 Participate in capacity building activities of WFP staff and partners in areas of sustainable agriculture \/ climate smart agriculture and risk mitigation measures
\n\u2022 He\/she will ensure that efforts will be made to ensure organizational policies and practices related to sustainable agriculture and climate changes are understood and can be effectively implemented through on-going training courses for all such Personnel.
\n\u2022 Liaise with M&E Programme officer to ensure all indicators related to environment and climate smart agriculture are captured for reporting in the routine project reports
\n\u2022 Actively Participate in proposal, concept note development, and planning for new interventions or review of existing interventions on climate smart agriculture
\n\u2022 Review project and activity plan, budgets, field level agreements (FLAs) documents to ensure environmental factors and mitigations are incorporated, and sub-project documents and environmental documents are in harmony
\n\u2022 Provide support regular support for ongoing SO2 documentation and consolidation of various data and reports reporting
\n\u2022 In collaboration with the programme policy officers, assist with day-to-day sustainable Food Systems (SFS) programme management affairs, especially Organizing & scheduling SO2 weekly\/biweekly meetings and take lead in taking minutes and follow up on action points with the responsible staff in SO2
\n\u2022 Actively participate in planning, implementation of all assessments related to SO2 and share results and lessons learnt for purposes of improving approaches and projects implementation strategies in the future.
\n\u2022 Will support the Gender and Youth Programme policy officer in promoting climate smart agricultural practices among the youths and women and propose related innovations that will benefit and safeguard the youth and women from environmental related risks.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 A masters in any of the above fields is an added advantage.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 A minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in project implementation related to sustainable food systems, agriculture, environment, disaster management and nutrition value chains or other related fields.<\/p>\n