BACKGROUND:
Farm Africa vision is a prosperous rural Africa. We are a specialist development NGO working with smallholder farmers, forest communities, local government and private sectors across East Africa for the last 30 years. With community engagement underpinning our approach, we design and implement sustainable solution to rural poverty based on evidence and best practices. In 2015 we reached approximately 1.8 million pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, farmers and forest dwellers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Farm Africa has worked in Ethiopia for over 28 years, throughout Oromia, SNNPR, Benishangul, Tigray and Afar regions. With funding from a range of institutional donors and foundations including DFID, EU, Irish Aid, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Comic Relief, Barr Foundation, and Ashden Charitable Trust, we have implemented a large portfolio of projects primarily focusing on three areas: agriculture (crop and livestock production), natural resource management, and market engagement. We implement projects directly with communities and these three approaches are further enhanced with integration of cross cutting issues such as climate change, gender and capacity building.
With almost 100 staffs in Ethiopia we align our work closely with regional and local government, civil society and the private sector. In addition to directly implementing projects within our core thematic expertise, we build local civil society organizations (CSOs) both to enhance development impact at community level and increase accountability and professional project management. As such Farm Africa directly contributes to the government of Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan and implementing its climate resilient green economy (CRGE) strategy.
Accelerating the Uptake of Climate-smart Agriculture for improved Agricultural Productivity of Smallholders project is a resilience project funded by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) with the objective of improving adaptive capacity of smallholders to climate uncertainties and agricultural productivity through accelerated field uptake of bundle of CSA practices in Halaba, Damot Gale and Hadero Tunto woredas of SNNPR.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
The purpose of the Admin Assistant and Cashier position is to provide secretarial, record keeping and office support services, handles & manage petty cash of the project. In addition, she/he support the Project Finance and Admin Officer to administer, control, monitor, and periodically summarize the extent of financial operations and performance of the project. She/he provides effective and efficient support and advice to the immediate supervisor and project team as required.
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Accelerating the Uptake of Climate-smart Agriculture for Improved Agricultural Productivity of Smallholders in SNNPR
REPORTS TO: Climate Smart Agriculture Coordinator
LOCATION: Halaba Woreda
DURATION & HOURS: Two years
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