About ministry of agriculture Irrigation and livestock:
The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock one of the governmental organizations that announced 21 vacancies those who are interested can register in this vacancy, eligible applicants can apply for these positions. The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock or MAIL obligates itself to a highly qualified and experienced person.
The Project’s Executing Agency is the Ministry of Finance, while the Project’s Implementing Agency is the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL). MAIL was chosen as the Implementing Agency because of its responsibility to oversee and supervise the development of Afghanistan’s rural and urban agricultural, irrigation, and livestock sub-sectors.
Vacancy details:
- Announced date: July 5, 2021
- Expire date: July 19, 2021
- Number of jobs: 21
- position tittle: Extension Workers.
- Organization: Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL).
- Location: Kandahar.
- Salary: NTA grade E.
- Category: agriculture.
- Gender: Male and Female
- Nationality: Afghan
- Type of work: full time
Job responsibility:
The applicants will report to the Head of Project Implementation Unit and will give assistance to the Arghandab project as well as strengthen the team and field operations.
- Collaborate with the communities and project process to determine important farming concerns that may be leveraged in the project planning process to guarantee a bottom-up approach.
- Work closely with the provincial team to assist diffusion of demand-driven better technologies supported under the project to men and women farmers;
- Participate in the selection process of project locations, both for watersheds and irrigation schemes.
- Collaborate with community mobilizers in the provincial government recruitment process for farmers’ field schools, kitchen gardens, and orchard.
- conduct Site field surveys to gather data for orchard development, on-farm activities, Farmers field school, and kitchen gardening (KG).
- Generate site plan and activity reports on a weekly and monthly basis.
- The extension worker will visit the field on a regular basis and meet the sub project .beneficiaries, working closely with the provincial agricultural officer.
- The extension worker will assist the project personnel in improving seed distribution under the B component.
- Collaborate with the community mobilizer to participate in community mobilization/meetings, identify farmers, organize organizations, and eventually promote the formation of FFS.
- Using the (FFS) Farmer Field School principal, support farmer groups through field trips and training.
- Provide training to farmers in innovative horticulture techniques and procedures in order to increase production in high-value horticulture.
- Agricultural extension will join district-level meetings with DAIL’s help and write reports for the Provincial Extension Coordinator.
- The Agricultural Extension will provide the various services that the Provincial Coordinator has asked.
- As allocated by the PIU Head, execute other tasks.
Job requirement:
- The applicant must have a bachelor’s degree in agricultural sciences.
- And also, have at least three years of verifiable experience in the field of promotional agriculture or any other field of crop production, ideally with projects provided by donors.
- The applicants should have skills in accessing, acquiring, and getting information from a number of sources have been demonstrated.
- Excellent organizational abilities and the ability to prioritize and complete projects on time, even while working under extreme time constraints;
- Excellent social, communication, leadership, and report writing skills.
- The applicants must be fluent in the national languages (Pashto and Dari) as well as English.
How to Apply
Interested Afghan applicants are encouraged to send their resumes together with a cover letter (letter of interest) that includes a contact phone number or location, as well as the specific district name (Shawalikoot, Arghandab, Panjwaee,Zerre, Maiwand, Dand, and Daman).
Please send your application to the following email address:
Submission email:
