Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Officer - Afghan Nationals Only

Job Description

- Conducts training workshops as directed by the ERD technical supervisor. - Identify together with community potential natural disasters and climate shock. - Consults prerequisite activities to reduce disaster risks and climate shock. - Plans and conducts climate smart agriculture and DRR awareness programs for the CBDRM and CSA committees. - Establish Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) and Climate smart Agriculture committees on village and district level. - Conduct DRR and CSA training with communities. - Providing capacity building awareness to communities about Climate shock and disaster. - Analyse situation of communities for potential natural disasters and climate shocks. - Identifies shortcomings in training and recommends changes in order to customize training programs to suit regional and cultural requirements. - Contributes towards the development and monitoring of the training. - Studies situation in the provinces – end up with a potential list to risks occurring in the provinces/districts targeted by the project. - Studies situation for each of the villages/communities about climate shock and disaster. - Identifies type and severity of risks to enable the personnel to prepare for their approach towards the communities. - Identify the size of the communities and the size of the village; it could be well possible that the inclusion of the community members in the CBDRM/CSA is more than what the project covers. - Creates awareness with the elders and see if there is a need for the DRR/CSA approach - Organizes a small workshop to analyse the situation, after the need is severe enough (as identified by community), tries to cover all the forms that are required. - Participate in each of technical working group meeting at provincial level and present the IRC to all meeting participants. - Collection of information about disaster and climate shock and sharer with ERD manager. - Participate in each event of the project (distribution survey etc.. - Creation and establishment of CBDRM and CSA committees. - Any other task given the supervisor.

Qualifications

- University Graduated (Agriculture) - 2-3 years’ relevant experience - Training skills, encouraging skill, communication skill - Communication and reporting skills - Fluency in Pashto, Dari and English - Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and internet) an advantage - Ability to work closely, professionally, and constructively with all others regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, race, tribe, or cultural background