Agricultural Officer

Job Posting: 24/Apr/2024

Closure Date: 15/May/2024, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: SLM

**Job Type**: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional

Grade Level: P-4

Primary Location: Panama-Panama City

Duration: Fixed-term: two years with possibility of extension

Post Number: 2000792

CCOG Code: 1H01

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- **Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply**:

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind.

**Organizational Setting**
FAO's Subregional Office for Mesoamerica (SLM) is responsible for developing, promoting, overseeing and implementing agreed strategies for addressing subregional food, agriculture and rural development priorities. It develops and maintains relations with subregion-wide institutions including Regional Economic Integration Organizations (REIOs). It assists the FAO Representations in the subregion with addressing subregional food security, agriculture and rural development issues at country level. The Subregional Office is a subsidiary of FAO's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (RLC).
The post is located in the Subregional Office for Mesoamerica (SLM) in Panama City, Panama.

**Reporting Lines**
The Agricultural Officer reports to the Subregional Coordinator, SLM.

**Technical Focus**
Provide technical support in the implementation of the programme of work in the area of agrifood systems development, promoting alliances with the private sector and South-South cooperation.

**Key Results**
Comprehensive technical, statistical, analytical and/or policy analysis services and the development of specialized tools, methodologies, systems and/or databases to support the planning, implementation/delivery and monitoring of the programme of work and related products, projects, publications and services.

**Key Functions**
- Plans and leads components of multidisciplinary teams; leads and/or participates in internal committees, project teams and working groups and/or provides specialized expertise on technical networks and/or international technical policy and standard setting bodies.
- Develops technical, analytical, monitoring and reporting frameworks and related methodologies, tools, systems and databases, etc. to support the planning, implementation/delivery and monitoring of programmes of work, projects, products and/or services.
- Designs and conducts research, data collection, validation, analysis and/or reporting activities to support the development of technical standards, international instruments, innovative approaches and strategies, new tools, technologies, technical reports/publications and/or policy proposals as well as the provision of technical/ policy specialist advice and expertise.
- Responds to country requests for technical and policy assistance; provides technical advice, assistance and solutions to Decentralized Offices and provides technical backstopping to field projects.
- Collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to, and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development and knowledge sharing activities within Members, such as policy support, organizational development and individual learning events, including preparation of related information, learning materials and on-line tools.
- Promotes international cooperation/advocates best practices and increased policy dialogue; provides technical expertise at international/intergovernmental meetings.
- Participates in resource mobilization activities in accordance with the FAO Corporate Strategy.

**Specific Functions**
- Supports country-level actions guided by FAO's Country Programming Frameworks (CPFs), subregional and regional priority frameworks and higher-level programmatic and strategic frameworks of the Organization in order to transform FAO's knowledge products and global programmes into country-level results and impacts.
- Provides technical advice and assistance to FAO