About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding

Job Summary: 

As a member of the ‘Bina’ Aljusur (‘Building Bridges’)’ project team, you will be responsible for the implementation of the Climate Smart Agriculture activities across technical sectors and projects. Your thorough and service-oriented approach will ensure that the project consistently applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.  You will closely coordinate with project teams  and partner staff to implement high quality, contextually appropriate approaches to Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA).  She/He should be able to respond to learning needs, develop and conduct capacity building for partner staff.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Support project Agribusiness partners and challenge fund grantees in implementing CSA practices and technologies and ensure successful implementation.
• Support all agribusinesses and partners and challenge fund grantees in promoting, market uptake and scaling of evidence-based climate smart technologies and innovation solutions along the chains.
• Contribute to climate risk assessments of prioritized commodities (pulses, oilseeds and cereals).
• Analyzing any barriers against the uptake of climate smart agricultural best practices and innovative practices and inform the CSA advisor, Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP) and Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Manager with recommendations for smallholder farmers, SMEs, financial institution, and governments.
• Support CSA training and coaching programs for small holder farmers (including women and youth), extension services providers (public, private, NGOs etc.), farmer cooperatives and all challenge fund grantees on climate-proofing agricultural production systems for selected value chains.
• Support in the development of services providers business cases and scaling successful ones especially inclusion of inclusive and innovative water and energy efficient technologies.
• Participate in partnership and collaboration meetings and events in the areas of climate-smart agriculture.
• Complete project documentation for assigned activities. Assist with identifying information for case studies and reports on promising practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in International Development, Agriculture/ Agribusiness, Economics, or in a similar field is preferred. Minimum of 2 years of work experience in the field of demonstrated experience with climate smart agriculture innovations.
• Additional experience may substitute for some education.
• Experience in providing Business Development Services is a must
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and working in multicultural environment.

Required Languages - Fluency in written and spoken English required; Arabic native speakers, or strong skills are preferred

Travel - Position is based in CRS’ Gedaref office. Must be willing and able to travel up to 80% to project areas within Gedaref.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Observation, active listening and analysis skills with ability to make sound judgment
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners and community members
• Attention to details, accuracy and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities
• Proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data preferred.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff) 

Agency competencies clarify expected behaviors and attitudes for all staff. When demonstrated, they create an engaging workplace, help staff achieve their best, and help CRS achieve agency goals. These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results. 

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission.  Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:

• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.

Supervisory Responsibilities (if none, state none): None

Key Working Relationships: 

Internal: F2F Project team in the location, CSA Advisor in  East Darfur,  Deputy Chief of Party(DCoP), Challenge Fund Manager, MEAL Manager, Volunteer Program Coordinator. State office Manager and Chief of Party 

External : Local partner and other stakeholders

 Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation. 

Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position. 

CRS' talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

CRS prioritizes candidates who are citizens/ permanent residents of the countries where we have CRS offices.

CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skills, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position. 

CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, 

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

 CRS requires its staff to treat all people with dignity and respect and to actively prevent harassment, abuse, exploitation, human trafficking everywhere and at all times. I, the applicant, accept these requirements as part of my job application.

Submission location: - 

If interested, please submit cover letter, resume and copies of your education and work certificates to Sudanjob.net or Lobour Office Gedaref. Ensure that your cover letter or resume has a phone number and WhatsApp number where you can be reached.