The General Secretariat of Inades-Formation is recruiting a Food Systems Project Officer
Place of work :
Inades-Formation General Secretariat in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) with missions abroad, in particular in the ten countries where Inades-Formation has a National Office.
Position and Duties
Under the authority of the Director of the Inades-Formation Programmes Department, the Project Manager’s main duties within the framework of the “Food Systems” programme will be to:
- Designing programmes and projects to seek funding on the basis of development alternatives for the food systems programme based on family farming;
- Steering the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the operational programmes and projects financed and producing technical reports in accordance with the commitments made with the partners;
- Stimulate and support creativity and innovation in terms of approaches, methods, tools, product-concepts and services for the benefit of the target populations of the network’s entities (SG/BN);
- Ensure the quality control of products-concepts and services provided to target populations under the “Food Systems” Programme and operational programmes-projects;
- Capitalising on experience and good practice in relation to the operational programmes and projects implemented;
- Leading and stimulating forward-looking thinking on the context of the “Food systems” programme with a view to repositioning current and future operational programmes and projects;
- Participate in the reflection, design and implementation of projects on other themes at the request of management.
Nature and duration of contract:
Fixed-term contract (CDD) of one (1) year with the possibility of renewal, after evaluation.
Probable starting date :
15 February 2024
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Skills required:
- Good knowledge of the issues and challenges facing family farming;
- Good experience in agroecology or sustainable agriculture practices, in particular the production of organic inputs, agroforestry, sustainable management systems and/or regeneration of local agro-resources;
- Experience in project development and management (planning, monitoring, evaluation and capitalisation)
Experience in preparing technical dossiers in response to calls for proposals/bids from TFPs; - Excellent management and work organisation skills;
- Good meeting moderation/facilitation skills;
Good technical reporting skills on projects in progress; - Capacity for forward analysis and creativity;
- Experience of working with NGOs.
Level of education:
Aged between 30 and 45.
Engineer or equivalent (at least 5 years’ higher education) – in agronomy, agro-economics, economics, rural development and social sciences or any other similar discipline.
Composition and submission of application:
- A letter of motivation addressed to the Secretary General of Inades-Formation;
- A detailed curriculum vitae (max. 4 pages) including at least 3 references;
- A certified copy of the required diploma;
- Work certificates.
Applications should be addressed to the Secretary General of Inades-Formation and marked “Food Systems Project Officer”. They should be sent electronically to the following address: recrutements.sg@inadesfo.net with a copy to alphonse.kouame@inadesfo.net . The deadline for sending applications is 22 January 2024 at 23:59 GMT.
NB: Only applications received by the deadline will be analysed by the selection committee, and only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Inades-Formation reserves the right to consider only successful applicants.
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