About Digital Green
Smallholder farmers are the heroes that produce much of the world’s food, and yet they’re often the poorest and most malnourished among us. At Digital Green, we believe that rural communities can lift themselves out of poverty, and that technology can accelerate their ability to do so. But technology alone is not enough – and neither are we. That’s why we join forces with governments, private agencies and, most importantly, rural communities themselves to co-create solutions that are of the community and for the community.
By integrating digital innovation with grassroots expertise, we are collectively changing the status quo. When farmers have the tools they need to learn from each other, they’re far more likely to integrate what they’ve learned into their farming practices – improving their own livelihoods and those of others in their community, in a manner that’s Natural resource management sensitive, climate-resilient, and inclusive.
Digital Green began as a research project at Microsoft and became its first non-profit spin-off in 2008. We began by working with frontline extension workers, training them to produce and share videos featuring local farmers. This led to significant increases in information sharing, best-practice adoption rates and, above all, sustainable development at scale.
Rigorous data analysis and farmer feedback continually challenge our assumptions and identify new ways that technology coupled with local knowledge can push the needle on agriculture, food and nutrition security.
Since day one, our deeply committed, curious and collaborative team has been challenged and inspired. We’ve tried and failed and tried again, and have ultimately become leaders in using technology for global development. To date, we’ve worked with more than 1.5 million smallholder farmers –eighty percent of whom are women – in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. And we’re just getting started.
Job Summary
The project Field Coordinator (PFC) , a new position for Digital Green’s the David and Lucile Packard Foundation financed project, will generally help to coordinate field levels programs and activities being close to woredas and villages where the project is designed for implementations with respect to integrating agriculture with Natural Resource Management (NRM) and livelihoods of the targeted farmers in two regions (Oromia and Tigray). He/she will report to the Project manager placed at Digital Green country office, helping to coordinate the implementation of the project in pilot woredas to fully achieve project target and objectives. The successful candidate will be a hands-on, initiative-playing the coordination role and implementation of on-ground level activities by laying strong foundations to smoothly run the project as per the agreed targets and objectives.
This position that will require an extreme level of out-of-the box thinking and program implementation skills as the project is new in terms of its approach i.e., integrating agriculture and NRM with livelihoods with the aim of developing climate resilient community and sustained mode of operations. The mind-set that the project field coordinator would be characteristic of a cyclical learning approach: create + deploy + learn + iterate + re-deploy. This is a tremendous opportunity for the right candidate to contribute significantly towards improving the lives of smallholder farmers within a well-respected, high-impact organization.
The project Field Coordinator will be a highly-skilled fast learner who is inquisitive in nature in order to find / determine “farmer’s needs” and “best solutions” to the various challenges smallholder farmers face on both extreme ends of the natural resource manager and its entire process. The candidate will also need to be adept in team collaboration among agricultural sectors and awareness creation. The portfolio of activities that he/she will work on will “new” for the wider team at this current stage and it is important that the candidate understands the importance of sharing learning’s to the wider team and executes on that importance during specified forums and review sessions.
Key Responsibilities
Reports to: Project Manager
No. of Position: 2 (Two)
Qualifications and Experiences
Skills and Competencies