Job Title: Consultant – Community Participatory Assessment on Access to Climate Change Mitigation Adaptation and Agroecology Support
Location: Nigeria
Contract: Short Term
Background
ActionAid Nigeria in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation – Abuja Office is working on Promoting Public Finance for Agroecology. Climate change poses major challenges to agriculture in Nigeria. Impacts range from desertification in the north to an increase of extreme climate events such as droughts and floods across the country, depriving smallholder farmers of land and destroying crops.
With a 25.2 percent contribution to Nigeria’s GDP and employing about two-thirds of the labour force, agriculture is a major backbone of the country’s economy. Women farmers constitute 60–80 per cent of the agricultural labour force. However, their access to credit, inputs, training and advice, technology, crop insurance, etc. remains poor. Despite the crucial role they play in society, smallholder women farmers are hardly involved in local, states and national decision and policy making.
Required Profile
The Consultant (She/he) to be recruited should have the following experience:
- A good understanding and practical experience of development work including advanced skills in Public Finance Analysis/Budget Analysis in Climate Change, Environment and Agriculture
- Be a graduate of Economics, Statistics or any related field (Master’s / Ph.D or Professor preferred)
- Have at least a minimum of 7 years experience in carrying out such an assignment and capacity for budget analysis (a report of such work done in the last 2 years is a required evidence)
- Experience in developing tools for Community Participatory Assessments of Government Expenditures
- Experience in developing tools for the development of Community Score Cards
- Excellent facilitation and writing skills (keeping it simplified)
- Computer literate and able to apply Microsoft Office and other analytical tools efficiently
- An excellent team worker.
Reporting Lines:
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- The Food and Agriculture Programme Coordinator will provide technical oversight to the Consultant during the work
- The consultant shall be responsible for pulling together the report and documents for submission to the Food and Agriculture Programme Coordinator at ActionAid Nigeria who will confirm reports satisfactory before balance payments are made.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Expression of Interest and Profile in one Microsoft word document to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
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Note
- Applications should be sent in one Microsoft word document or may be disqualified
- Only selected the applicant would be contacted.
Deadline: August 28, 2020
Job Features
Job Category | Consulting / Business Strategy/ Planning |