North South Consultants Exchange is searching for an: Senior Expert – Agriculture and Climate Smart Agriculture (National)
APPLICATION GUIDELINES:
To apply, please send your CV to recruitment@nsce-inter.com by 30 November 2026 with the following email subject line: "Senior Expert – AIP II CSA Upper Egypt"
Note. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until a suitable candidate is identified.
The Project overview
North South Consultants Exchange (NSCE) is looking for candidates for a long-term development project in agriculture and climate smart agriculture in Upper Egypt, covering the Beni Suef, Minya, Asyut and Sohag governorates. The project runs for approximately 30 months, from 2027 to September 2029. It uses a Living Lab approach with Farmer Field Schools to strengthen the climate resilience of smallholder farming communities. It aims to build the capacities of 6,600 smallholder farmers to reduce production losses from extreme weather, adopt climate-adaptive production methods and increase their income, and to train 200 rural stakeholders through Training-of-Trainers.
Role of the Expert
The Senior Expert is a key expert and the technical senior expert with national experience. The role requires 366 expert days in Egypt and reports to the international Team Leader.
- Responsibility for the work packages of the assignment at national level.
- Co-create, with the international Team Leader and the AIP team, the design, planning and implementation of the technical activities on agriculture best practices, climate smart agriculture (CSA) and the interactive demo plots.
- Responsibility for the technical provision of innovative climate approaches, the development of crop calendars, and the planning of field visits and implementation technical support.
- Ensure the coherence and complementarity of the services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level, and a stable flow of information from and to the commissioning party and ZALF.
- Design, implement, monitor and evaluate capacity development measures for local partners, and take cross-cutting themes such as gender equality into consideration.
- Ensure that monitoring procedures are carried out and report regularly to the international Team Leader in accordance with deadlines.
- Check the use of funds and financial planning during the implementation of the work packages, in consultation with the international Team Leader.
The expert is evaluated based on the following 3 criteria:
Expert Minimum Requirements
Required qualifications
- University degree (e.g. master's or German Diplom) in agriculture and/or climate smart agriculture.
Required experience
The expert should demonstrate:
- 7 years of professional experience in the agriculture sector, including climate smart agriculture innovations.
- 5 years of professional experience in good agricultural practices (GAP), including climate adaptation solutions.
- 5 years of management experience in projects, companies or other organisations, with disciplinary leadership responsibility for small-scale farmers.
- 7 years of professional experience in Egypt.
- 5 years of experience in development cooperation projects.
- Soft skills: Team skills, initiative, communication skills, sociocultural and intercultural skills, efficient partner- and client-oriented working methods, and interdisciplinary thinking.
Languages
- English: B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.