Capacity Development Officer at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.

We invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position below:

Job Title: Capacity Development Officer

Project ID No.: 2100155036067
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Sector: Agriculture
Job Type: Consultancy Services
Financing Agreement reference: P- Z1-A00-016

About the Project

• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is implementing the ENABLE-TAAT Compact, financed through a grant from the African Development Bank toward the cost of the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program and intends to apply part of the proceeds for this grant to facilitate payments under the contracts for the following individual consultants.

Job Description

• The Consultant is expected to develop, coordinate, and implement a detailed youth training plan/strategy for the ENABLE-TAAT compact; identify, develop and promote tools and guidelines for capacity building which will help in mobilizing young people; promote agribusiness growth and help expand diversity in young people.
• Also, he/she will carry out the related ENABLE-TAAT compact training in collaboration with identified facilitators within commodity value chains, integrate promising advanced agricultural technologies from the 9 commodity value chain compacts into curriculum, and incubation, assemble training toolkits and produce training tool per value chain and technology.
• Others include to produce a comprehensive report at the end of training and make recommendations on ways of improving the project.

Requirements

• The desired consultant is expected to possess a B.Sc. or HND in Agricultural Science or other related field with at least four (4) years experiences in performing similar capacity development design and development, training of trainers and participatory extension; performing similar or related roles preferably.
• Familiarity with Nigeria work environment will be an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
3rd July, 2020.