Agricultural Program Manager CARE Timor Leste Maliana, East Timor

Title:                                     Agricultural Program Manager

Country Office:               CARE Timor Leste

Location:                             Based in Maliana with frequent travel to Bobonaro, Ermera and Liquica districts

Position reports to:       Assistant Country Director Programs

Position Type:                 Fixed term

 

CARE Timor Leste’s agricultural programming supports vulnerable households in Liquica, Cova Lima, Emera and Bobonaro districts in Timor Leste and aims, as part of an integrated program approach to address the underlying causes of food insecurity. The program builds on CARE’s past experience working in the target areas. The program incorporates four inter-related strategies:

• promoting the empowerment of vulnerable women, men and youth groups to access social and agricultural support services,
• increasing agricultural productivity with mainstreaming community-based disaster risk management for sustainable production systems,
• based on a watershed approach,
• increasing availability of improved seed through seed production at the household level,
• assisting the Ministry of Agriculture through CARE agriculture and food security programs in strengthening extension services in the program districts, and
• Documentation of CARE’s good practices and approaches and sharing them with relevant stakeholders and donors for their information, review and policy feedback. 

Agricultural programming aims to address food security in an integrated manner that combines agricultural productivity with community health and nutrition as well as agro-business activities. Strong emphasis will be placed on partnering with local civil society organizations, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries at the national and local level, and international organizations working in the food security sector. Capacity building for national staff and partner NGOs is an essential component of the project.

 

The Agriculture Program Manager is responsible for providing overall planning and management of all CARE Timor Leste’s programming that relate to food security and agriculture. Specifically, he/she is responsible for the planning, management and implementation of the European Commission (EC) funded HAN project. The Agriculture Program Manager is also responsible for providing technical guidance to other CARE projects with agriculture components and ensures quality standards of CARE are followed by those projects for agriculture activities.

 

 

Full details of this position can be found on the CARE Australia website www.care.org.au. Applications should be emailed to: jobs@care.org.au

 

Applications close: 11/10/2012