Overview: Seventy percent of the world’s extreme poor live in rural areas.
Because the rural poor are Nuru’s primary partners, the plan to address the community’s agricultural needs will be central to the overall solution.
The Agriculture Fellow will partner with the community to identify the community’s agricultural needs and design sustainable solutions to meet those needs.
Specific Responsibilities Include:
Because the rural poor are Nuru’s primary partners, the plan to address the community’s agricultural needs will be central to the overall solution.
The Agriculture Fellow will partner with the community to identify the community’s agricultural needs and design sustainable solutions to meet those needs.
Specific Responsibilities Include:
- Ensure the Agriculture Program is truly sustainable and scalable
- Train and mentor the Nuru Kenya Agriculture Program team
- Empower local leaders in the Agriculture Program to continually take more and more ownership of the program
- Achieve pre-determined seasonal goals
- Manage program budget efficiently to meet pre-determined goals
- Manage recruiting of new farmers and scale to new communities within the Agriculture Program expansion framework
- Identify the agricultural needs within partner communities
- Develop and implement agricultural interventions to meet the needs of Nuru’s farmers: access to farm inputs; education in agricultural techniques; cash crops; organic fertilizers; and linking farmers’ products with fair markets in order to fight chronic hunger and facilitate income generation in partner communities
- Help to develop new monitoring tools to evaluate impact of the Agriculture Program
- Refine existing program metrics to improve accuracy in its reflection of the community poverty level and operational effectiveness
Specific Skills and Attributes (additional to the General Requirements for the Nuru Fellows Program):
- Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Business or Agriculture, MA preferred
- At least 2 – 3 years experience in project management
- At least 1 – 2 years of creating and sustaining agricultural solutions for the poor
- Prior experience living and working in the Developing World
- Solid quantitative skills and experience with Excel
- High commitment to organization’s mission and theory of change
- Strong work ethic
- Strong leadership and team building experience
- Ability to do crisis management and rapid, innovative problem solving in uncertain environments
If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume/CV and cover letter to jobs@nuruinternational.org.
Please outline how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position, and include how you heard about this opportunity.
Please check our Fellows Program Overview at www.nuruinternational.org/fellows for more information.
Application Deadline: Please submit your application as soon as possible; we hire on a rolling basis. Deadline for all applications is November 15, 2011.