Project Specialist

I. MAIN ACTIVITIES

The project specialist will be in charge of documenting local tree knowledge and developing a decision-support tool to improve resilience of agroforestry systems in areas of Lam Dong.
Contributing to the development of SMS planting material branch, the project manager will provide support for the nursery and warehouse management. He will conduct activities such as acclimation, multiplication, germination, seed collection, seedlings production and promotion as well as monitoring of demo plots for new coffee varieties, to produce both knowledge and goods.
The project specialist’s tasks can be extended to support other activities lead by SMS, required according to project priorities and deadlines.
Coordinate projects;

II. RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To document local knowledge of trees with respect to ecosystem services in Lam Dong mountainous areas where Arabica and Robusta coffee crops are predominant;
2. To develop a decision-support tool to help farmers select the right tree species adapted to local ecological conditions and their household needs and constraints;
3. To develop the planting material branch of SMS Vietnam;
4. To increase the resilience of farming systems to price volatility and climate change through production and revenue diversification.

• Agroforestry:

The work will particularly contribute to documenting farmers’ knowledge on trees and their provision of ecosystem services at local/regional levels. By incorporating this local knowledge in an online decision tool (shadetreeadvice.org) to help extension services and farmers’ organizations to select/recommend the “right tree species” tailored to the local conditions, our proposal is clearly contributing to “Out/up scaling the development and adoption of agro-ecological practices among farmers through training and dissemination”. It will also participate in promoting Agro-ecology and Conservation Agriculture and its effective adoption through the provision of a decision support tool allowing the active participation of stakeholders.
Specific deliverables to be produced in the scope of the Shade tree advice tool:

a. An inventory of the main tree species in the main Arabica and Robusta growing districts of Lam Dong province
b. A comprehensive documentation of ecosystem services and disservices associated to the most important tree species in these two landscapes
c. A database with tree species ranking according to the most relevant ecosystem services in these two landscapes
d. Final report on tree species provision of ecosystem services and a series of recommendations to promote climate-smart agroforestry practices

• Planting Material:

The work focuses on the production of seedlings, through multiplication of different types of planting material including seeds, scions, embryos, plant-lets. Multiplication rates will be closely followed to assess the activities’ performance and profitability. In charge of the inventory, the project manager should be comfortable with production and planting timelines.
To monitor the demo plots, the project manager will run monthly field check-ups for reporting, collect data on the farms to support for the performance assessments of the different varieties, with the support of the CIRAD, and advice farmers if needed, to make sure plots are well maintained.

Edu. background: Graduated University of Agriculture/ Forestry.

Skills:
Clear and connected voice
Be able to read and understand coffee technical standards, cultivation process.
Be able to read and understand general working schedule.
Be able to advice, instruct and impart coffee farmers on agroforestry, varieties, and seedlings.
Make internal verification schedule, collect, process, classify and report.
Record data and manage field books.
Be skillful in use of internet, email, office software (word, excel, etc.) and hardware (photocopy, fax, scanner, etc.).
Be skillful in use of GPS.
Being able to communicate in English

- 13th+14th months of salary, performance bonus
- 24/24 Insurance

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