Immediate vacancy announcement to hire research and capacity building experts for the CASCAPE-AAU Project
Background
The College of Development Studies (CoDS) of the Addis Ababa University is implementing a collaborative capacity building program in selected Woredas of Oromia and Amhara Regional States with the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands under the project entitled Capacity Building for Scaling Up of Evidence Based Best Practices in Agricultural Production in Ethiopia (CASCAPE). The project operates as part of the BENEFIT (Bilateral Ethio-Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade) partnership, a collaborative partnership between 4 Dutch funded projects and their Ethiopian partners. Nationally, the project is implemented through collaboration between five Ethiopian Universities (AAU, Mekele, Bahir Dar, Hawassa and Jimma) and Wageningen University, the Netherlands. The College of Development Studies implements this project on behalf of Addis Ababa University in two regional states, namely, Oromia and Amhara.
Broadly stated, CASCAPE project is designed to support the Ethiopian government to increase agricultural productivity by verifying and testing best practices and innovations in agricultural production and identifying the circumstances under which farmers are prepared to take up innovations, and scale up these best practices to the wider farming communities as well as contribute to the capacity building of stakeholders.
Position: Research expert
Main duty: Validation and demonstration of agricultural technologies and practices (on-farm research).
Number required: one.
Terms of employment and preferable skills for both positions
Terms of contract: contract for 1 year renewable for another 8 months with probationary period set at three months.
Salary: competitive based on the project’s salary scale.
Place of work: Addis Ababa (College of Development Studies, AAU) with frequent travel to project sites and village districts in Oromia and Amhara Regions.
Preferable skills for both positions: