About IFDC
IFDC is a public international organization active in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, and America. IFDC uniquely approaches the global issues of food security and poverty by bridging the gap between research and impact, combining science-based innovations, holistic market systems development, an enabling policy environment, and strategic partnerships to assist farmers and countries to identify and scale sustainable agricultural solutions, including improved nutrient use efficiency. These approaches are needed to boost soil health and crop productivity while reducing the environmental impact of fertilizer use. IFDC translates research into action by using locally driven, environmentally sound, and impact-oriented solutions. With our partners, we seek to close the yield gap, eradicate global hunger, safeguard the soil on which our lives depend, and generate economic resilience for farming households and the countries in which they live.
Responsibilities
- Identify and on-board farmers into organized groups called project villages and take them through sessions of Participatory Integrated planning (PIP);
- Register farmers and support the cascading of training to generation 1 and 2 households;
- Implement farmer support programs, including agronomy and nutrition trainings, farm visits, management of demo plots and input plus out-market support;
- Identify potential risks and develop action plans;
- Collect and enter data for the BRIGHT M&E system;
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with staff, local partners, and stakeholders;
- Provide technical backstopping to farmer innovators and other project support personnel at ground level.
Reporting and Work Relationships
The Field Extension Workers (FEWs) will be reporting to the IFDC Field Officer for the region as it will be specified in the contract.
Salary
FEWS will be paid Ug. Shs 600,000 (Six hundred thousand Uganda Shillings only) per month subject to 6% withholding tax subject to completion of the targets set for that month.
Based on the monthly targets set out for each month, each FEW will be paid upon submission of a detailed report of activities done, targets set for that month and data entered into the MIS. The contract is a one-year assignment with a possibility for extension. The monthly activity report should be submitted on the 25th of every month for review and approval.
Benefits
A monthly transport allowance of UGX 150,000 (One hundred fifty-thousand Uganda Shillings only) and Airtime allowance of UGX 70,000 (Seventy thousand Uganda Shillings only) will be provided to each FEW.
No additional benefits will accrue to the above position.
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