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Project Officer Agronomy/Forestry

Concern for Women and Children Development Foundation (COWACDI)

No. 26 Opposite Save the Children Office, Benue Avenue, Old G.R.A Maiduguri, Borno State

07034345441

info@cowacdi.org

www.cowacdi.org

Publication Date:

28 February 2023.

Concern for Women and Children Development Foundation (COWACDI) is a woman- led organization born out of passion for the wellbeing of Women and Children in Nigeria. It has special interest in mitigating the suffering of the vulnerable persons (mostly Women & Children) in times of crisis. Currently the organization has focused its attention on the Northeast of Nigeria with special emphasis in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states (the BAY states) due to the decade old crises. COWACDI intervenes through community-based approach in addressing Gender-Based Violence prevention and response programmes, livelihood programmes, peace-building programmes and empowerment of youth and women. COWACDI operates with full respect for humanitarian law and works with concrete policies and principles of international standard such as humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence and accountability to affected population.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Type:                      Full Time

Qualification:                MBA/MSc/MA

Experience:                   3 years

Location:                      Hawul/Biu, Borno State.

Job Field:                     Project Officer Agronomy/Forestry

Vacancy:                       1

Contract Duration:       10 Months

Start Date:                     ASAP

Role purpose

The Project Officer Agronomy/Forestry will be responsible for designing and implementing high quality, efficient Project Officer Agronomy/Forestry activities including nutrition assessment and promotion of healthy eating habits, directly and indirectly through training/mentoring of project community volunteers and beneficiaries, linking up with LGA BOSADP Officers, other NGOs, and private sector actors at the community level.

The role shall provide overall project supervision, promote, and value participatory approaches at the community level throughout the projects’ cycle, awareness raising and sensitisation, and all related program activities, Pre and Post Project Officer Agronomy/Forestry activities Monitoring as well as monitoring and evaluation under the direct supervision of the Project Manager.

Promote the vision, mission, and the values of COWACDI as expressed in the policies, regulations & guidelines of the Organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and in collaboration with the extension agents, field agents and community volunteers and CPAs and other team members of the program and of the base, the Project Officer Agronomy/Forestry will:

To respond to ever changing demands within the environment, COWACDI operates within an agile framework (both in workforce and operational) that requires from all employees, a high level of responsiveness and adaptiveness to processes and structures making flexibility and a project based working approach the norm. To sustain this system, managers may/will agree further details of specific tasks and duties as part of the performance agreement. Any reasonable duty may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility, and employees may be required to change the focus of their role from time to time.

Applied skills/knowledge and expertise.

Essential Requirement

Analytical skills

Decision making

Desirable

Relationships

Application Closing Date

12 March 2023.

Method of Application:

Interested and qualified candidates who are passionate and willing to contribute towards the achievement of our goals should forward their application containing a CV and Letter of interest in either word document or PDF format using the position and location “NUTRITION AND FORESTRY OFFICER_BORNO STATE” as the subject of the email to recruitment@cowacdi.org

COWACDI regrets that, due to the large number of applications we receive, we are unable to reply to every applicant. If you are being considered for the role, a recruiter will contact you. If you are not contacted within 2 weeks, you should consider your application not successful on this occasion.

Note: Never pay for any training, certificate, assessment, or testing fee to the recruiter.

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