Dublin: Agriculture and Livestock Officer

Aug 6, 2018 | Concern Worldwide
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Job Title:  Agriculture and Livestock Officer

Reports to: Senior Food and Nutrition Security Adviser/ Food Security and Livelihoods team lead

Liaises with:Other units in the Strategy, Advocacy and Learning department, Country Offices, International Programmes Department and the Emergency Unit.

Manages: N/A

Job location:Dublin with substantial overseas travel

Pay Band:  Band 4 (€37,019 - €43,552)

Contract:1 year

Job Purpose: The Agriculture and Livestock Officer will promote food security in disaster-prone, fragile and development contexts through the provision of technical support to country programmes on climate-smart agriculture and livestock and through the documentation of learning and best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical support on agriculture and livestock programmes, promoting the increase and diversification of food production for human consumption and income generating to country teams to ensure agriculture programmes are designed, implemented, monitored and evaluated correctly. 
  • Work towards optimum impact of agriculture and livestock programmes on the extreme poor and most vulnerable groups, helping them to sustainably reach food and nutrition security all year round. 
  • Contribute to the implementation of Concern’s climate smart agriculture (CSA) strategy and establish a mechanism to monitor and document progress made against targets.
  • Feed into Concern internal discussions related to multi-sector agriculture programmes with a special focus on nutrition sensitive agriculture.
  • Carry out country visits to provide support on agriculture and livestock programmes
  • Analyse data sets, synthesise information from country reports and evaluations, write up best practice and learning. 
  • Support and develop relationships with other agencies, technical working groups and represent Concern in national fora as relevant.
  • Contribute to the development of new project proposals.
  • Potentially be deployed to support emergency responses for up to six weeks.