Capacity Building Officer

Reports to:

Program Manager, C4

RPWC

Location:

Ajman, UAE

The CGIAR Consortium for Red Palm Weevil Control (C4

RPWC) is a multi-partner initiative funded by the International Affairs Office (IAO) of the UAE Presidential Court and the Gates Foundation. Led by ICARDA, the Consortium brings together international research organizations and strategic partners to develop and scale sustainable, science-based solutions for the management of the Red Palm Weevil in low- and middle-income countries.

The Capacity Building Officer will coordinate and support the design, planning, implementation, monitoring, documentation, and continuous improvement of capacity development activities across the C4

RPWC Program. The position will work across all technical work streams and participating countries to ensure that training and capacity development activities are demand-driven, technically sound, well coordinated, properly documented, and aligned with the Programs research, validation, deployment, and scaling objectives. The Officer will report directly to the C4

RPWC Project Manager and maintain a dotted-line technical relationship with the ICARDA Capacity Development and Training Team Lead in Rabat, Morocco, ensuring alignment between C4

RPWC capacity development activities and ICARDAs broader institutional approaches, standards, tools, and learning systems.

A major focus of the role will be coordinating the Programs Training-of-Trainers (ToT), technical training, Farmer Field School and extension-related learning, Young Career Program, e-learning and training materials, regional knowledge exchange, and other capacity development activities linked to the C4

RPWC innovation and scaling pathway.

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a treaty-based international non-profit research organization supported by CGIAR.
ICARDA’s mission is to reduce poverty, enhance food, water, and nutritional security, as well as environmental health in the face of global challenges including climate change. We do this through innovative science, strategic partnerships, linking research to development and capacity development that take into account gender equality and the role of youth in transforming the dry areas. ICARDA works in partnership with governments, universities, civil society, national agricultural research organization, other CGIAR Research Centers, and the private sector.

With its temporary Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, ICARDA operates in regional and country offices across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. For more information:(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

• · Coordinate the C4
  
  RPWC Capacity Development Plan and annual training calendar, ensuring alignment with workplans, milestones, technical validation activities, and country priorities.
• · Work with Workstream Leads, country teams, national partners, and ICARDAs Capacity Development team to identify capacity gaps and translate them into targeted learning interventions.
• · Coordinate capacity-development activities across the UAE, Egypt, Tunisia and other participating countries, ensuring consistency while allowing appropriate country adaptation.
• · Serve as the C4
  
  RPWC focal point for capacity-development coordination and maintain close technical liaison with ICARDAs Capacity Development and Training Team in Rabat.

• · Coordinate Training-of-Trainers and other technical training covering biological control, biotechnology, digital technologies, Citizen Science, GAP/IPM, data management, technology adoption, impact assessment, and other C4
  
  RPWC priorities.
• · Coordinate participant selection,…