Agronomy Officer
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Agriculture, Agriculture - Agronomy
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
Cambodian National
Report to: SMP National Agronomy Coordinator/ and National Impact officer
Agronomy officer will be mainly responsible for providing technical support on SRP rice production to farmers and conduct training/ research and implementing highly technical agricultural sustainable assessments.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provide technical training to farmers on SRP rice
- Promote sustainable agriculture
- Support trials and expansion of innovative sustainability improvements
- Monitor SRP rice farmer’s activities and farmer’s diary
- Build good working relationships with relevant community groups, key farmers, partner organizations, stakeholders, supply chain operators.
- Work as a team submit monthly work plan, budget and report to provincial coordinator
- Any other duties as deemed necessary by provincial coordinator/ program manager
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in gronomy, and research thesis focus on rice or vegetable production
Work History:
- At least of professional experience with SRP rice, vegetable production and agriculture extension for 2 years
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Understanding on environmental conservation and agriculture value chains
- Good Khmer and English both spoken and written.
- Excellent computer literacy on MS, Excel and others data management program
Soft Skills
- Self- motivated, result-oriented and ability to integrate well into the team
- Ability traveling by motorbike in rural areas with difficult condition by team or alone
- Willingness to spend long periods of time in remote locations, and/or living and staying in rural communities if needed.
- Good knowledge of the NGO for environmental conservation with SRP rice
- Ability to demonstrate a sound commitment, honor to SMP’s work/ positive attitude and teamwork
- Working overtime when required
- Ability of multi-task, under pressure coordinate various teams with dynamic creation
