National Expert on E-agriculture Development

 

General Description of task(s) and objectives to be achieved

Under the overall managerial administrative leadership of the FAO Representative (FAOR) in Indonesia, over-all technical guidance and supervision from the technical officer in the Investment Centre (CFI) and with the technical backstopping of the Lead Technical Officer (LTO), in close collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture, the International Remote sensing and Data Scientist will: ·         Consult regularly with the project team, Ministry of Agriculture, Centre for Agricultural Data and System Information (CADIS), Strategic Agricultural Command Centre (KOSTRA TANI), partners of the Agricultural War Room development; ·         Provide technical guidance, in consultation with national partners, and through the national e-agriculture taskforce for the development of the e-agriculture strategy and action plan; ·         Undertake a need and gap assessment for the operationalization of the AWR, with focus on ICT, identifying the challenges and opportunities in deploying ICT solutions, Big data, for the AWR operationalization throughout the review of the existing capacities; ·         Provide technical guidance and inputs for the development of the national e-agriculture vision document, highlighting the roles of key stakeholders in supporting the implementation of e-agricultural services and solutions; ·         Provide technical guidance and inputs for the development of the national e-agriculture action plan, that provides priority solutions with detailed information, technical specifications, required resources for the various national entities to be involved in its implementation; ·         Provide technical support to the national e-agriculture taskforce presenting the results from this project including the national e-agriculture vision, action plan to the various stakeholders to receive inputs and then submit the draft national e-agriculture strategy to MoA; ·         Contribute to trainings on targeted technical elements related to e-agriculture solutions and the operationalization of the AWR. Trainings will include elements related to ICT development, e-agriculture, standards, ICT solutions, agricultural data, data integrity, lessons learnt; ·         Contribute to workshops that focus on building provincial capacities in utilizing FAO and other digital agriculture systems. The workshop also aims to train government staff in identifying, developing and maintaining sustainability of e-agriculture solutions which may be related to ICT, data access, partnerships, data integrity protocols, standards, land cover/use representation systems, objectives, targets indicators etc. ·         Provide technical guidance to national consultants on developing technical guidance and standard operating procedures.

key performance indicators

Expected Outputs/ Deliverables: ·         Workplan prepared and updated regularly; ·         Minutes and proceedings of meetings, workshops and events organised with the national e-agriculture taskforce; ·         Need and gap assessment for the operationalization of the AWR prepared; ·         National e-agriculture vision document prepared; ·         National e-agriculture action plan with detailed information, technical specifications, prepared; ·         Support to developing an in-depth action plan for two priority e-agriculture solutions; ·         Guidance note provided to national consultants in support to identified IT solutions; ·         Mission Reports (as required).

Requirement: ·         Advanced university degree in computer science/information technology/ computer engineering or in Agriculture/environmental/natural sciences; ·         MS/Ph.D. in computer science, machine learning, statistics, applied mathematics; ·         3+ years of experience building ICT4 agriculture services and solutions and in supporting the development of appropriate strategies for implementation; ·         Excellent communication and workshop facilitation skills; ·         Working knowledge of English.

 

 

Duty station: Indonesia 

 

Duration: 6 months

 

General Note to All Applicants :

Interested candidates should submit a CV and a covering letter ( In English) clearly stating their relevant skills, experience and email to : FAO-ID@fao.org, Submission deadline : 20 April 2021. All candidates should possess computer/word processing skills. FAO reserves the right not to make an appointment at a lower grade or to make an appointment with a modified job description. FAO regrets to inform applicants that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Qualified female applicants and qualified nationals of non-and under-represented member countries are encouraged to apply. Persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.