Agriculture Field Officer (Pending Funding)

Basmeh & Zeitooneh is a registered Lebanese organization, committed to serving refugees and vulnerable communities in Lebanon through six community centers across the country. The organization runs educational, relief, livelihoods, and protection programs, and aims to serve as an inclusive and supportive focal point for the entire community.

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Location: Nabaa & Bourj Hammoud Area

Reports To: Livelihoods Project Manager

Project Description: The project is to be implemented in Bourj Hammoud & Nabaa. The project is centered around urban agriculture and food processing. Mainly to introduce youth in urban areas to urban agriculture.

Job Purpose: Under the supervision of the project manager, the Field Officer is responsible for the daily technical execution, supervision, monitoring and reporting of the field activities and
for ensuring proper coordination with stakeholders, municipalities, other authorities, participants and related B&Z departments, as well as for supporting the food security and livelihoods activities and the general humanitarian effort of the organization. The position requires extensive field work and movement in Nabaa Center and Bourj Hammoud Lebanon.

Major Activities:

The Field officer shall be implementing the following Activities:
● Actively engage in the participants and ensure the appropriate selection of target population and implementation of the project under the guidance the project manager.
● Support in designing the agriculture activities (technical and managerial training for agriculture
● Support in designing appropriate training methods and materials to be provided to project participants and provision of training.
● Ensure implementation of project deliverables with the project team as per project design (assessments, target selection, distribution of agricultural inputs (equipment and other material) distribution, design and set up of agricultural training, etc.)
● Collaborate with relevant stakeholders (participants, Technical consultants and partners, Cooperatives, Municipalities) to ensure appropriate programming strategies are developed and refined for the target population
● Support in the briefing and induction sessions
● File, document, and report work progress to his/her line manager on weekly basis
● Monitor the conformity of the field works (trainings, field visits, meeting, etc‚) with the standards of B&Z, and as per the agreed activity planned, BoQs and contracts

Education & Experience :

● Agricultural Sciences (preferably Agronomy, Agriculture Engineering and/or Agriculture Marketing
● Previous experience: two-year experience working in agriculture sector (farmers organizations, small scale farmers, crop production and improvement)
● Experience in humanitarian and development organizations is desirable
● Knowledge of MS Office

Competencies (Functional & Behavioral):

Functional :

●Evident project management skills
● Computer proficiency in word processing, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel.
● Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

Behavioral :

● Strong critical analysis and problem-solving skills;
● Good Communication
● Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team
● Good organizational and time management skills