Tasks and responsibilities

The Cereal Field Production Specialist will be responsible for the development cereals production, operational planning, management and monitoring of all activities with partners. S/he will also provide regular backstopping for the provision of technical and management support to Cereals production facilitators to monitor Cereals  groups performance with the aim of increasing the production and quality of Cereals in line with project objectives with emphasis on:

Food security 

•    Strengthen basic seed production: In Manica and Nampula Provinces seed producing companies may be contracted to produce the needed basic seeds for cereals. 
•    Strengthen certified maize seed production in Manica and Nampula contract seed producing companies to supply certified seed to be used on cereals food production.
•    Support production intensification in order to promote a sustainable increase in the productivity by effective use of fertilizers.
•    Provision of support to effective risk-share and de-risk private driven aggregation and geo-cluster schemes for dedicated value chains, to further improve and scale the inclusion of smallholder farmers.
•    Roll-out of a smart subsidy model for milling and other small scale agro-processing.

Improve nutrition

•    Expand the home gardening intervention focusing mainly on vegetables, fruits, legumes and staple foods such as cassava, orange sweet potato and yellow maize. 
•    Promote home gardens with nutrition education package to enable households to give more importance to home grown food.
•    Expanding the school garden intervention to strengthen nutrition education and diversified agriculture by producing more diverse foods to reduce dependence on imported and marketed foods.
•    Support community nutrition education in order to guide them towards behavioral change in improving the dietary diversity of the family, with special emphasis on the infant and young child.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements  

•    University degree in Agronomy, Rural Extension or other related subjects. 
•    Five years of relevant experience in Rural Extension. Relevant background experience on technical areas related to crop production, value chain approaches and market-oriented production.
•    Working knowledge of English, and fluent in Portuguese. 
•    Working knowledge of the local language spoken in Manica and Nampula provinces.
•    National of Mozambique. 

FAO Core Competencies

•    Results Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Building Effective Relationships
•    Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

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