Job Opportunity: Senior Program Officer, Agriculture and Food Security, IDRC

Senior Program Officer, Agriculture and Food Security

Position #:

822

Location:

Ottawa, Canada

Salary Range (CAD):

$83,685 - $100,825

Duration:

Indeterminate

Closing Date:

16/05/10

The Agriculture and Food Security (AFS) program supports research to increase production and incomes from small-scale farming, while contributing food to rural and urban consumers. The Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, a collaborative program of the International Development Research Centre and the Canadian International Development Agency, is an integral component of the AFS program. AFS finances applied research initiatives that seek to solve immediate and concrete food security challenges on the ground in the developing world.

Based in Ottawa, Canada and reporting to the Program Manager, the Senior Program Officer will contribute to programme development to develop projects within the priority areas by reviewing, developing, monitoring, managing and evaluating research projects; and liaising and maintaining productive working relationships with grantees, researchers and government institutions.