The Wood Foundation (TWF),Farmer Field School (FFS) Facilitators Jobs Vacancies in Rwanda

Training opportunity for 22 Farmer
Field School Facilitators
Position Title: Farmer Field School
(FFS) Facilitators
Opening Date: March 31st
2015
Closing Date: April 13th
2015
Background
The Wood Foundation (TWF), in
partners

hip with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, launched the Imbarutso
Programme in March 2011. This 6 year program is introducing a portfolio of
interventions to increase management and agronomic skills at the farm level,
support government in creating a proper regulatory environment, and assist
processors in creating farmer services that boost factory profitability and
farmer incomes.

The Training Opportunity
The Wood Foundation in partnership with
NAEB seek to identify and fund 22 Rwandan candidates under the Imbarutso
programme to undergo a rigorous Farmer Field School training programme that
will cover:
  • Good
    Agricultural Practices (GAP) for tea husbandry and other topics such as
    climate change, soil conservation, animal husbandry, nutritional, health
    issues, etc.
  • Steps
    in conducting FFS in a Rwandan  tea husbandry
  • Characteristics
    of the farmer field school approach and methodology
  • Key
    concepts and techniques used in FFS
  • Case
    studies on successful FFs in the region.
The training will take place in Kenya
and Rwanda. Initially, successful candidates will be required to travel to
Kenya on in May for a training that will last between 2 – 3 weeks. Following
the training in Kenya, trainees will be attached to ongoing FFS schemes at
Mulindi and Shagasha tea factories in Rwanda for a period of 12 months to
undergo hands on training until they complete one tea-based FFS cycle. Upon
successful completion of the one-year FFS programme, trainees will graduate and
be awarded with a certificate of “Farmer Field School Facilitator” specialised
in the smallholder tea value chain.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidates we seek for this
opportunity will have:
  • Successfully
    completed an undergraduate degree (Bachelors) in Agriculture and related
    fields such as Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Rural Development and
    Environmental Studies
  • Written
    and spoken proficiency in English and Kinyarwanda with knowledge of
    Kiswahili being a definite advantage
  • Demonstrated
    interestin improving smallholder farmer incomes, rural economic
    development
  • Previous
    experience in the tea value chain or agricultural extension services with
    a focus on smallholder farmers and perennial crops
SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS
Interested applicants must submit
electronically 3 references, CVs with a covering letter on one side of A4
stating their interest in the opportunity and detailing their suitability
as a candidate
. Only electronic applications with the subject line ‘FFS
Training Opportunity’ submitted by email to Joselyne.Kabatesi@thewoodfoundation.org.uk will
be accepted. Deadline for submissions is 10AM (Rwanda time) on 13th,
April 2015. Submissions must be in English and typed (no smaller than 11 point
font) on a standard A4 format.
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