Apply by 3 August 2025
Duties and responsibilities
1. Provide technical inputs to FARM thematic areas:
- Facilitate consultations, trainings, and capacity-building workshops with child project countries on thematic areas of the FARM project, particularly concerning HHPs, agricultural plastics and agrifood value chains ensuring a gender responsive approach.
- Provide technical assistance to child projects on FARM thematic areas by revising relevant documents and providing inputs to project management calls.
- Provide technical reviews of implementing partners’ agreement deliverables, such as the development of scoping studies and capacity-building assessments.
2. Provide Technical inputs to the monitoring and evaluation and alignment GEF, and agrifood value chains indicators:
- Review methodological indicators and calculations and provide comments to enhance alignment with gender responsive approaches.
- Facilitate trainings in consultation with Implementing partners.
- Based on the above elements, lessons learned, and gaps identified in FARM implementation, prepare a 4-page concept note for FARM+ to continue providing technical assistance and maintenance to the FARM knowledge platform and M&E systems.
- Support the establishment of partnerships with the agrifood value chains stakeholders.
3. Support the establishment of partnerships with the agrifood value chains stakeholders:
- Revise the stakeholder engagement strategy and prepare a Plan of Work (POW) for engagement of institutions in 2026, including aligning gender responsiveness across activities.
- Prepare an action plan to engage in-kind contributions FARM partners
- Support the development of the FARM/GGKP agrifood hub through identifying its scope and user interface
- Develop in coordination with FARM team members, the agenda for the FARM FORUM to take place in Q1 2026.
4. Facilitate Project Advisory Group Meetings
• Support implementing partners’ technical reports and consultations with the FARM Project Advisory technical working groups on finance, agricultural plastics, and pesticides.
• Revise and validate with implementing partners the technical inputs provided by countries to PAG meetings.
Qualifications:
- An advanced university degree in environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, ecology, project management, natural resource management or economics, or a related subject is required.
- A first degree, together with two additional years of qualifying experience, may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
- A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in agriculture and agrifood systems, pesticides management, sustainable development, project management or related areas of work is required.
- Knowledge of agrochemicals, integrated pest management, gender-related issues in relation to agrochemical management, pesticides, plastics, and stakeholder engagement is required.
- Skills in project management and technical assistance to developing countries.
- Good knowledge of different international agrifood initiatives.
- Excellent networking and communication skills, and experience engaging with multiple parties and stakeholders using participatory techniques.
- Good knowledge of monitoring and evaluation of projects.
About FARM
Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) is a five-year, $37 million initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), with an additional $341million in co-financing. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and implemented by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), FARM aims to transform agrifood value chains through reducing the use of harmful pesticides and agricultural plastics, and safeguard ecosystems and human health for future generations. FARM is implemented through projects in seven countries – Ecuador, India, Kenya, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Philippines, Uruguay and Viet Nam – and coordinated through a global project hosted by the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP).