Agronomist Expert

• Studying plants and soil in order to develop better planting, cultivation, and harvesting techniques, improve crop yield, and solve problems facing the agriculture industry.
• Researching, developing, and promoting farming practices or products that diminish the effects of changes in soil, climate, and weather or prevent damage from pests.
• Generating reports and presenting findings to management, clients, or other interested parties.
• Promoting products and techniques through educational presentations.
• Managing teams of scientists while conducting field visits or laboratory work.
• Selling personalized consultation services to clients.
• Visiting fields to collect seed, plant, and soil samples and testing samples for nutritional deficiencies, diseases, or other changes.
• Assisting with the plant selection process and the development of planting and irrigation schedules, budgets, and timelines.
• Keeping detailed records regarding fields, customers, crops, and samples.
• Manages various tasks & projects as they arise and upon Manager’s request.
• Enhance to the establishment/strengthening of community-based range land management    committee in the identified NRM sites and facilitate the development RLM bylaws.
• Identified appropriate biological and physical conservation and development measure in the identified areas and communal area closure and will make through discussion with the communities and develop action plan for its implementation.
• Provide training for kebele development committees / Food security task forces on DRR concepts and principles.
• Coordinate & facilitate the selection of beneficiaries of the project jointly with government based on the agreed targeting criteria.
• Coordinate the action plans for assessments, monitoring, & joint review on the implementation and progresses of the project activities.
• Ensure your work plan relates closely to the regularly updated project work plan guiding the project implementation and progress towards completion.
• Record and monitor project activities and its process to facilitate learning, implementing monitoring and evaluation.
• Provide technical advice and support to beneficiaries and partners and ensure the community level data is collected, consolidated and reported on time and are well integrated in the project activities.
• Properly & timely compile all   relevant documents as like as case stories, success stories, pictures, photographs and lesson learned   during the implementation and constantly share it to project team.
• Provide all the written weekly, monthly and quarterly reports timely as required by PC and the donor.
• Ensure there is a system for networking and communication with local government partners, relevant line departments and community representations in the project area(s). 
• Work closely with beneficiaries &woreda NRM officers to link with project activities to their regular duties & responsibilities
• Ensure that communities and partners are facilitated to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate the project activities for quality and sustainable development.
• Monitor woreda level performance of the project in relation to the agreed MOU, workable procedures or new model that is introduced.
• Conduct ongoing monitoring of the project against objectives outlined in the project using methods and tools developed by PC & Partner or the project in collaboration with the project staffs.
• Ensure the preparation and implementation of the work plan activities, including M&E activities, meetings & visits of the project area conduct timely in coordination with the zonal coordinator.
• Follow up the proper implementation of activities based on the agreed budget as per Detail Implementation Plan (DIP) or other planning documents.
• Create transparency and accountability by ensuring that resources are efficiently and effectively utilized within the project for the intended purpose.
• Speed up payments for cash work activities for direct participants.
• Facilitate & speed up all procured farm tools & other material support to the targeted kebele where the cash for work is practiced.
• Facilitate the innovation and creative mind in initiating the integration of other project components at household and community level.
• Ensure that all the NRM & DRR activities of the project are incorporated into the respective government regular plan and monitoring points by the local leaders.
• Development or strengthening to work in closely with all local &woreda stakeholders and create ownership.
• Create smooth networking relationships and participation with wide stakeholders such as government, CBOs, community leaders and other key partners at local level.

 Additional Information

• PC is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture.
• Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
• Everyone who works for PC is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold PC's values.
• PC, as a National CSO, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination.　　
• All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
• All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
• PC does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing)
• Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Duration/Contract period: one year with possibility of extension depending on the satisfactory performance.