🌾 #JobHuntMondays  The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT is hiring a Coordinator II for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nairobi, to lead country-level delivery of a regional agricultural extension project in Kenya and South Sudan.

🌍 What IITA is doing: Part of CGIAR, IITA develops agricultural innovations to tackle hunger, malnutrition, poverty and natural resource degradation across sub-Saharan Africa. Through the Enabling Sustainable Regional Agricultural Extension (ENSURE) project, it’s working in seven East African Community countries to strengthen how farmers get advice and new technologies.

💼 In this role, you’d:
🗂️ Turn ENSURE’s regional plans into country workplans, schedules, budgets and risk trackers
🤝 Work with EAC national focal points, ministries, research and extension agencies, regulators and private-sector
🌱 Set up and run national and local innovation platforms, including platforms built around agro-ecological zones
📱 Roll out digital advisory tools such as AKILIMO and AgWise, from localisation to scaling up
🎓 Coordinate training for extension agents, lead farmers, cooperatives and youth entrepreneurs
📊 Lead field supervision, monitoring data and reporting, and document lessons and success stories

📋 Strong fit if you have:
✅ A master’s in international agricultural development, crop science or agronomy, agribusiness, agricultural economics, rural development or a related field
✅ 8+ years coordinating agricultural research for development, extension, agribusiness, digital agriculture or scaling programmes
✅ Experience coordinating multi-country or multi-partner initiatives, and multi-stakeholder platforms
✅ Strong skills in monitoring, evaluation, reporting and partnership management
✅ Experience working in Kenya (South Sudan or fragile settings is a plus)
✅ Excellent English (Kiswahili is desirable)

💚 IMVELO Impact: Good farming advice only works if it reaches farmers. Coordinating extension and digital advisory tools across borders helps farmers grow more on the land they have, protecting soils and natural resources for the future.

📍 Location: Nairobi, Kenya (with regular travel to Kenya and South Sudan project sites)
⏰ Deadline: 20 October 2026

🔗 https://bioversityinternational.zohorecruit.eu/jobs/Careers/11911000016652277/RFP301457-COORDINATOR-II-IITA-KENYA?source=CareerSite

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