Agriculture Technical Field Officer- ORAP 554 views

Contract type: Fixed Term

About the organisation

The Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) presents an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and competent individuals to take up the position of Technical Field Officer under a USAID Amalima Loko funded project which is part of a CNFA-led consortium. ORAP is a leading local NGO involved in development and relief (emergency) work in rural communities in Zimbabwe. It exists to fight all forms of poverty among the rural and urban grassroots communities of disadvantaged women, men and youth through the empowerment of people by facilitating their development in their diverse cultural contexts.

Project summary

This is an ongoing five (5) year project ending in year 2025. The project seeks to improve food security through increased food access and sustainable watershed management. Its purposes are P1: Enhanced and inclusive local ownership over food security and resilience planning and development, P2: Watershed management improved, P3: Adaptive and absorptive capacity improved.

Position summary

As the Technical Field Officer for ORAP, you will spearhead the Agriculture and Livestock Component of the Amalima Loko program within the ward cluster or micro-watershed in particular district of Hwange, Binga, Lupane or Nkayi. This position provides the direct link between the program and the beneficiaries or participants and the incumbent will represent the consortium at the ward level. The Field Officer will lead all the ward-based agriculture (crops and livestock) activities and ensure that these are aligned with the on-going shared visioning process for collective action in which community actors can contribute their perspectives, articulate aspirations, define individual and communal strengths and hoped-for contributions, voice concerns, and highlight successes. S/he will also promote the implementation of proven agriculture-based interventions in a manner that results in changes in people’s livelihoods leading to increased resilience among the targeted community. The incumbent is expected to oversee the implementation of innovative and proven technologies that lead to sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation and/or adaptation assisting government extension officers and communities in the implementation of their plans to achieve food security goals through addressing underlying causes and major determinants of food insecurity and malnutrition. The incumbent will also lead the ward level implementation of non-farm livelihood diversification activities to ensure increased resilience of communities to climate induced perturbations.