Job Detail

Scope of work:

Agriculture Officer is part of the project management team and works directly under the supervision of district manager and in close coordination with Senior Program officer-Economic recovery and project manager.

The Agriculture Officer will implement the project at the community level. She/he will closely work with field staff and project beneficiaries in targeted districts. conduct regular visits to farmer’s field provide technical agriculture training to project farmers distribution agriculture inputs to increase their yield production and improve food security. She/he will also provide support to the district manager in compiling monthly and quarterly Progress Reports. Moreover, Agriculture Officer will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation of all the agriculture components. He/she will support all the production, marketing, and capacity building aspects, interventions, and value chains activities. 

Main Responsibilities:

• Through coordination with the DAIL and local stakeholder, the incumbent will select communities which are hit by drought. 
• In order to introduce the alternative of chemical fertilizers, this postholder will train the target farmers on how to prepare compost and how they can get benefits while compost is ready for application.
• The incumbent will provide practical training to the farmers in line with cereal crops & vegetable life cycle.
• Provide technical advice and information to the target beneficiaries through training and demonstration on improved agriculture production.
• Conduct visits to district programme site at 90 % time to field to observe and assess the performance of target beneficiaries’ and provide to them information and technical advice as required.   
• Conduct regular visits to farmer’s fields, identify technical problems investigate causes, advise effective solutions to farmers and commercial growers to assure crop quality and low crop damage and ensure increased crop production levels.  
• Will carry out the beneficiary profiling, post distribution and post harvesting survey in the field.
• Will closely work with local facilitators and target farmers to implement the project activities and will send monthly progress report against the agreed objectives and outcomes.
• Participation in procurement of agriculture inputs improved wheat seeds, Alfalfa seeds & vegetables.
• Preparing kitchen gardening & Agriculture related training manual.
• Responsible for preparation of distribution points, distribution list and other require tools base on activities needs.
• Conduct experiments to develop new or improved varieties of field crops focusing on characteristics such as yield quality disease resistance nutritional value or adaptation to specific soils or climates.
• Responsible for establishment of the nursery in the targeted communities, with regular overseeing the plants growth and diseases control.  
• Document and share case studies success stories and field visit reports as and when required.
• Responsible for conducting technical trainings on cereal crops, orchard management and agro technique to farmers.

Any other task assigned by district manager.       

• SCA actively promotes and encourages women and persons with disabilities to apply.
• Interested qualified candidates should submit a full CV (maximum four pages) with a cover letter in a single word/pdf document file explaining their motivation in applying for the job and highlighting their relevant skills and experience.
• To apply online please send your application / CV to vacancies.ermo@sca.org.af
• The subject line must include (HRM/JRMO 155-22 - Agriculture Officer) otherwise your application may not be considered. 
• Candidates may also submit applications by letter (hard copy) directly to the SCA HRM Unit in either Kabul, Ghazni, Kunduz, Wardak, Taloqan, Mazar-e-Sharif, Laghman, or Jalalabad;
• Academic certificates or references are not needed to be submitted at this time. These will be requested if called for an interview.
• Only short-listed candidates will be invited for a test/interview.