Agriculture & Rural Development Learning Advisor at Indepth Research Services (IRES)

We seek to recruit an aggressive, confident, fluent, mature and keen to detail Humanitarian Trainee & Learning advisor to manage all communications, both internally and externally on full time basis.

Responsibilities

Training and curriculum Development

• Design training to build the capacity of technical officer, Extension officials and teachers of agriculture and veterinary Institutes.
• Launch training for farmers in adopting appropriate practices in agriculture and livestock management.
• Choose appropriate training methods per case (simulations, mentoring, on the job training, professional development classes etc.)
• Use accepted education principles and track new training methods and techniques
• Design and prepare educational aids and materials
• Determine additional training strategies based on data or observation
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Business Development

• Preparing proposal and responding to related EOI and RFPs
• Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings
• Planning and preparing presentations
• Communicating new product developments to prospective clients
• Overseeing the development of marketing literature
• Writing reports
• Providing management with feedback

Key responsibilities in consultancy work

• To provide scientific support in implementing various research projects
• Implementing field surveys, collecting and processing secondary data, developing research reports, policy briefs, communication materials, and presentations on research
• Implement farm level, household, market and consumer surveys, and collect and manage secondary data
• Facilitate focus group discussions and key informant interviews in selected areas
• Data entry, cleaning and management of survey data
• Managing electronic surveys: programming of tablets (for example with CSPro, ODK), retrieving and assembling the data, cleaning and organizing
• Locate, assemble and analyze secondary data relevant for specific research
• Conduct statistical and econometric analysis of survey and other data using STATA, SPSS or other standard statistical software
• Conduct literature reviews and assist in preparing strategy documents, research reports and policy briefs to strengthen research and publication efforts

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Science in agricultural economics/Agribusiness management, Horticulture, Agronomy or related field, from a recognized university or any other relevant degree with bias in quantitative and qualitative analysis, from an accredited university;
• Professional Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Ability to design training curricula based on a needs assessment and present in MS word and Power Point format to farmers and local staff.
• At least 3-5 years of experience in design and delivery of agricultural training
• Strong agribusiness and value chain skills
• Experience in working with a range of stakeholders that include the private sector, government, agribusiness cooperatives and farmers’ associations.
• Good computer literacy and knowledge of multiple statistical and/or qualitative software packages such as SPSS, SAS, STATA, R Studio, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Word.
• GIS and Remote Sensing experience is an added advantage.
• Experience in conducting field surveys and analysis of farm household and market survey data
• Conversant with designing of questionnaires in CAPI using CSpro and/or ODK