About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

Job Summary:

As a member of the ‘Bina’ Aljusur (‘Building Bridges’)’ project team, you will be responsible for the implementation of the Climate Smart Agriculture activities across technical sectors and projects. She/He will work closely with project teams and partner staff to implement high quality, contextually appropriate approaches to Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA). She/He should be able to respond to learning needs, develop and conduct capacity building for partner staff.

• Support the coordination and implementation of all assigned project activities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Support project agribusiness partners in implementing CSA practices and technologies as well as in promoting, market uptake and scaling of evidence-based climate smart technologies and innovation solutions along the chains.
• Assist in implementation of CSA training and coaching programs for small holder farmers (including women and youth), extension services providers (public, private, NGOs etc.), farmer cooperatives on climate-proofing agricultural production systems for selected value chains.
• Support in the development of services providers business cases and scaling successful ones especially inclusion of inclusive and innovative water and energy efficient technologies.
• Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and assisting partners in their efforts to collect and analyze project data per specified mechanisms and tools. Contribute to climate risk assessments of prioritized commodities.
• Monitor and report any challenges and/or gaps identified to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules. Analyze any barriers against the uptake of climate smart agricultural best practices and innovative practices and inform the CSA advisor with recommendations for smallholder farmers, SMEs, financial institution, and governments.
• Complete project documentation for assigned activities. Assist with identifying information for case studies and reports on promising practices.

• Degree in International Development, Agriculture/ Agribusiness, Economics, or in a similar field is preferred. Minimum of 2 years of work experience in the field of demonstrated experience with climate smart agriculture innovations.
• Additional experience may substitute for some education.
• Experience in providing Business Development Services is a must
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and working in multicultural environment.

Required Languages - Fluency in written and spoken English required; Arabic native speakers, or strong skills are preferred

Travel- Position is based in CRS’ East Darfur office (Ed Dain). Must be willing and able to travel up to 80% to project areas within East Darfur.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Observation, active listening and analysis skills with ability to make sound judgment
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners and community members
• Attention to details, accuracy and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities
• Proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data preferred.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff) 

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Integrity
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation
• Builds Relationships
• Develops Talent
• Strategic Mindset
• Accountability & Stewardship

Supervisory Responsibilities (if none, state none): None