International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Training Officer
Job Requisition ID: IITA/P&C/NRS2023-043
Location: Kaduna
Job type: Contract
Duration: 1-year renewable contract
Duties
- Lead the management and implementation of youth training in Kaduna state
- Coordinate all efforts of all identified partners in contributing to training activities in Kaduna State
- Supervise and monitor trained youths alongside the M/E officer(s).
- Assist the State Coordinator in drafting training and activity progress reports and other reports from the locations as required.
- Assist with the selection of trainee cohort and inputs to the trainee database
- Assist with the identification and screening of sites for training and incubation
- Determine the equipment needs of training sites and advice for upgrade
- Lead training of trainers for identified facilitators
- Integrate promising advanced agricultural technologies into curriculum, attachments, and incubation.
- Assist with the development of a curriculum that reflects private sector needs and standards of competency.
- Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Requirements
- B.Sc / HND in Agriculture Extension or Social Science-related courses with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience performing similar role in a well-structured environment.
Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:
- Be computer literate with a good working knowledge of computer-based control systems, shared network drives, and Excel packages.
- Have good manners in showing flexibility, respect, friendliness, and cooperation.
- Have good personality and interpersonal relationships as well as excellent communication skills.
- Be experienced in working with youths.
- B experienced in designing agribusiness training curriculum for youths.
- Have good team working skills and must be able to share all relevant information with colleagues and users pro-actively at the right time.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidats should:
Click here to apply
Application Deadline 5th October, 2023.