Job Description

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

11 December 2025-23:59-GMT Greenwich Mean Time (Abidjan)

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WHY JOIN WFP?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

The Agroforestry Consultant will play a key role in integrating multi-layered agroforestry systems (SAFs) into the Women-Adapt project in Côte d’Ivoire's Poro Region, with a strong focus on land rehabilitation, climate resilience, and sustainable livelihoods. The consultant will facilitate farmer-to-farmer exchanges, lead the design and implementation of regenerative agroforestry practices, and ensure effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) through the use of technologies such as satellite imagery and polygon mapping.

In addition, the consultant will oversee community mobilization, capacity building, and technical training, emphasizing participatory planning and local ownership. This role includes fostering collaboration with government partners, cooperating agencies, and technical experts to scale agroforestry interventions while leveraging lessons learned from similar projects in other countries in West Africa. By aligning land restoration efforts with agroforestry practices, the consultant will contribute to reversing environmental degradation, enhancing food security, and creating resilient landscapes for vulnerable communities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):

Design and Implementation of Agroforestry Systems

Develop and oversee the implementation of multi-layered agroforestry systems (SAFs), including syntropic agroforestry, tailored to local agroecological conditions and project objectives.
Conceptualize new SAF designs based on community preferences using tools like Canva to ensure visually accessible and participatory planning approaches.
Lead NbS land rehabilitation initiatives incorporating soil and water conservation technologies, such as trenches, contour plantations, windbreaks, and watershed management.
Establish flagship SAF demonstration sites, ensuring scalability and sustainability across additional villages in the Poro Region.

Community Engagement and Capacity Building

Facilitate farmer-to-farmer exchanges to promote knowledge sharing and participatory approaches to SAF and land restoration practices.
Conduct technical training sessions for WFP staff, partners, and community members on SAF methodologies, sustainable land management, and climate resilience techniques.
Promote local ownership through participatory planning and active community involvement in all phases of implementation.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

Design and implement robust M&E frameworks, leveraging satellite imagery, polygon mapping, and drone technology to track progress and assess impacts of SAF interventions.
Prepare comprehensive reports, including diagnostic evaluations of SAF pilot areas and recommendations for scaling and replication.

Stakeholder Coordination and Partnership Development

Collaborate with government entities, NGOs, and research institutions to align NbS and SAF activities with regional and national objectives for resilience and climate adaptation.
Serve as the technical liaison for international agroforestry experts, ensuring seamless integration of best practices and methodologies into the project.

Integration and Knowledge Sharing

Ensure alignment of NbS and SAF and land rehabilitation activities within the broader Women-Adapt project framework and GCF objectives.
Develop and disseminate training materials, technical documents, and knowledge-sharing resources to facilitate regional scaling and replication of SAF interventions.

Language and Regional Expertise

Leverage field experience in West Africa to adapt NbS and SAF interventions to local context.
Proficiency in French and English is essential.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS (details to be determined by Post Managers):

This section is optional to describe other duties, skills & knowledge required for the specific job.

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK: COMMON STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR

Upholds WFP values, principles, and standards

Respects others and values diversity

Stays focused and calm under pressure

Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn

Leads by Example with Integrity

Demonstrates and encourages others to uphold the WFP values, principles and standards

Values diversity using respectful and inclusive language, and encourages others to do the same

Stays focused and calm when under pressure, encourages others to do the same, and offers guidance and support to manage difficult situations

Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn and share knowledge, frequently seeking and acting on feedback, and pursuing opportunities to develop

Delivers results for maximum impact

Delegates appropriately

Adapts readily to change

Drives Results and Delivers on Commitments

Identifies and aligns objectives to the required outcomes, holding self and/or others accountable for the delivery of results for maximum impact

Delegates responsibly and provides appropriate support empowering others to deliver results

Responds readily to change in different contexts and adapts accordingly

Is inclusive and collaborative

Gives timely and constructive feedback

Builds and shares new perspectives

Fosters Inclusive and Collaborative

Promotes inclusive teamwork and psychological safety by encouraging colleagues to collaborate by sharing ideas and openly raising issues

Supports development for others by giving timely and constructive feedback

Seeks out, trusts and listens attentively to diverse views to capture, learn, build and share new perspectives

Communicates and fulfils WFP’s vision

Embraces curiosity and new ways of doing things

Analyses and evaluates data

Considers the impact of decisions

Applies Strategic Thinking

Communicates and fulfils WFP’s vision and operational outcomes to deliver meaningful solutions

Demonstrates curiosity, designs and implements new ways of doing things when relevant

Gathers data and different perspectives, shares knowledge and uses evidence to inform decision making

Implements decisions, considering the risks and implications of actions for teams, projects and other initiatives

Builds and Maintains Sustainable Partnerships

Builds partnerships

Initiates and builds partnerships by identifying and promoting opportunities for mutual areas of interest and benefit

Collaborates to deliver common objectives

Collaborates with partners to deliver common objectives by sharing information and co- creating innovative solutions with beneficiaries when appropriate

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES:

Capability Name : Description of the behavior expected for the proficiency level

Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance

Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher)

Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.

Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.)

Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Emergency Programming

Displays ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches.

Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government

Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

3 years of related experience
Practical experience in implementing multi-layered agroforestry systems (SAFs), including syntropic agroforestry.
Ability to facilitate farmer-to-farmer exchanges and participatory community planning.
Ability to deliver technical training on agroforestry and climate resilience practices.
M&E skills, including satellite imagery, polygon mapping, and drone technology.
Proficiency in using Canva or similar tools for SAF design and visualization.
Experience in coordinating with government, NGOs, and research institutions.
Field experience in West Africa, with cultural and ecological adaptability.
Familiarity with Nature-based Solutions (NbS) approaches, as this role will require direct integration of SAF systems with land restoration activities (Soil and Water Conservation)

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Advanced University degree in Agriculture, Environmental Science, Sustainable Development, or other field relevant to food security and land restoration, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.

Language:

International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English and French language.

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK

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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact: global.inclusion@wfp.org

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Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
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Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
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