Catholic Relief Services Technical Advisor Jobs in Kenya

Catholic Relief Services Technical Advisor Jobs in Kenya

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’s Agriculture and Livelihoods team supports farming communities using our Pathway to Prosperity approach, which enables rural families to increase their productivity within sustainable landscapes, achieve a living income and build more resilient communities.

Background:

CRS is implementing an award under USAID’s Supporting Seed Systems for Development (S34D). The goal of S34D is to enhance farmers’ access to a full range of seed choices and options to maximize their responsive decision making and planning for production.

The activity seeks to improve functioning of national seed sector in Feed the Future countries and in countries with resilience and emergency seed security programs.

By identifying and removing constraints and bottlenecks within the seed systems, the goal is to increase the number of smallholder farmers utilizing quality seeds, including high yielding and stress tolerant commercial and staple crop varieties, in countries with significant Feed the Future and/or emergency seed programming.

The intention is to address seed system constraints that limit the development and uptake of relevant agricultural technologies within and beyond Feed the Future Zones of Influence, by creating self-sustaining, functional seed systems and delivery channels, using market-based approaches, as appropriate to the crop and context.

The activity will generate tools and approaches to ensure relevant information to guide interventions that reach both the target beneficiaries and smallholder farmers more broadly, and will effectively respond to emerging conditions, especially drought, and mitigate its impacts through planning and smart investments before, during, and after a shock.

Job Summary:

The S34D Policy Coordinator will support coordination and facilitation of relevant policy dialogues under S34D.

S/he will report to S34D MELPAS (M&E, Learning, Policy, Advocacy, and Strategy) Senior Technical Advisor.

Seed systems play a pivotal role in agricultural development, being one of the key input systems to increase agricultural productivity, food security, nutrition, and income for smallholder famers.

This position will play an important role in informing, and therefore, shaping strategic decision makings over the course of program implementation by working closely with a range of international stakeholders and national seed policy partners.

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