Job Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership, guidance and oversight to Crop Production, Irrigation Management, Plant Protection and agricultural extension interventions
• Coordinate the identification and documentation of constraints and challenges in crop production, irrigation management, agricultural extension and plant protection and development of innovative sustainable solutions to the impediments.
• Oversee the formulation of innovative intervention ideas to guide crop unit project proposal development in line with FRETH CPF, UNSDCF and FAO’s global corporate level strategic objectives.
• Guide the formulation and submission of crop unit project proposals to funding partners.
• Provide leadership and guidance on the formulation and implementation of crop unit project workplans including documenting project results and lessons learned in line with project reporting and visibility requirements.
• Provide technical support including expert advice to relevant government, private sector entities and other development partners on crop production, irrigation management, and plant protection towards attainment of country food and nutrition security targets
• Coordinate the provision of FAO technical support to the government on collection and maintenance of crop production and irrigation development data to facilitate performance monitoring toward attainment of set targets and sharing of customized information with relevant stakeholders.
• Provide technical support and for regular review of the national seed system and to the designing of intervention to address bottlenecks and challenges in a sustainable manner.
• Provide support on policy review to foster sustained improvement of operating environment that allow farmers and other value chain players to contribute to the overall performance and competitiveness of the Ethiopia agriculture sector.
• Provide leadership on gender mainstreaming during crop production and irrigation development project formulation and implementation as well as generation of data to track progress.
• Coordinate the identification of relevant R&D topics that can facilitate unlocking Ethiopia’s agriculture sector and share ideas with relevant agriculture sector R&D partners / platforms.
• Participate in the preparation and review of FRETH field programme/project and thematic work plans to ensure technical consistency.
• Perform any other duties as required