Agricultural Economist at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Overview

• The Agricultural Economist will provide Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of vegetable business networks in the Veggies 4 Planet & People Project.

Job Description

• Facilitation of monitoring and evaluation processes of vegetable business networks engaged in regenerative agricultural technologies and post-harvest practices.
  • Train business coaches and partners to collect quality data.
  • Implement, monitor, collect and report data.
  • Conduct preliminary analysis.
  • Participatory M&E processes with farmers, partners, and researchers.
  • Report findings and conclusions
• Manage an on-line database of vegetable business networks (VBNs), VBN members, business coaches and project eventsin AkvoFlow.
• Facilitate profitability studies of vegetable production and vegetable businesses.
• Conduct end-line evaluation study of the project.
• In liaison with stakeholders, colleagues, and partners, promote innovations and processes that improve efficiencies in the vegetable value chains.
• Promote youth and gender empowerment in vegetable business networks through implementing partners.
• Document evidence and lessons learned into high quality documents or media for dissemination.
• Liaise with Media Officer and media partners to influence behavioral change of producers towards adoption of generative technologies and circular agri-business practices.
• Produce research briefs to influence policy towards a more enabling environment for vegetable business networks and sustainable agricultural practices.
• Technical progress and other evaluation reports of grammatically correct and scientific standards.
• Facilitate partner meetings and learning events.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Kenya Country Director.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in agri-business, socioeconomics, or other related sciences.
• Minimum three years’ experience in an international non-governmental organization (NGO) or company.
• Proven experience in qualitative and quantitative evaluation studies, baseline studies, and impact assessments.
• Proven ability to extract evidence and lessons learned from evaluation exercises and turn these into high quality documents for dissemination.
• Proven experience in profitability studies.