Short-term Senior Expert  – Agriculture and Climate Adaptation (National)

North South Consultants Exchange is searching for an:   Short-term Senior Expert  – Agriculture and Climate Adaptation (National)

APPLICATION GUIDELINES:

To apply, please send your CV to recruitment@nsce-inter.com  by 30 November 2026 with the following email subject line: "Short-term 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

  This post is position short-term senior expert positions with national experience in agriculture and climate adaptation. Up to 4,144 expert days in Egypt are planned for the whole group of 10 senior experts, and the number of experts and days actually used may differ from this plan.

• Design, plan and implement the technical activities on agriculture best practices, climate smart agriculture (CSA) and the interactive demo plots.
• Provide the technical content for innovative climate approaches in CSA.
• Develop the crop calendar.
• Support field visits and implementation technical support.
• Contribute to the development of Training-of-Trainers (ToT) materials and knowledge products.
• Carry out the ToT training programmes and matchmaking events.

The expert is evaluated based on the following 3 criteria:

Expert Minimum Requirements

 Required qualifications

• Advanced university degree (e.g. master's or German Diplom) in agriculture and/or climate smart agriculture.

Required experience

The expert should demonstrate:

• 10 years of professional experience in the agriculture sector and/or climate smart agriculture innovations.
• 8 years of professional experience in good agricultural practices (GAP), including climate adaptation solutions.
• 5 years of management experience in projects, companies or other organisations.
• 5 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

• Arabic: C2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

• English: B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.