Vacancy
Community Development Officer (CDO)- National Position
Location
Woredas in Oromia National Regional State
Salary
GBP 493 per month
Application Deadline
3 November 2024
Farm Africa is seeking passionate and skilled Community Development Officers to join our team in Ethiopia. This is an exciting opportunity to make your mark in a fast-moving organisation. Farm Africa is a specialist international NGO focused on promoting sustainable agricultural practices, strengthening markets and protecting the environment in rural Africa. We want Four Community Development Officers to provide technical leadership in crop production for the Building Resilient Wheat Value Chain and Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Oromia (BRES) project, as well as across Farm Africa’s entire portfolio. This involves planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and all other crop production- related activities in the operational districts where Farm Africa is actively operating. The primary responsibility of the position holder will be to coordinate the planning and execution of project activities related to community development. This includes capacity-building training, facilitating input supply, organizing farmers’ groups, promoting cluster farming, providing technical support to VSLAs, and offering guidance to government counterparts.
The position will have one-year contract upon successful completion of a probation period of 60 working days with the possibility of extending the contract in one of the woredas in Oromia National Regional State.
If this sounds like the challenge you would relish, we want to hear from you.
More information can be found in the job description.
Those who meet the above requirements should submit their short CV (maximum of 4 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 1 page) to CDO (4) by November 3, 2024.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Farm Africa is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Farm Africa does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. (E.g. Application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).
