Senior Officer, Agricultural Innovation and Society (P5 grade) at The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)

Under the general supervision of the Executive Secretary, GFAR, the incumbent will lead the planning and implementation of programmes and policies under the GFAR strategic objective of transforming and strengthening agricultural research for development systems. This entails transforming the capacities and operational basis of agricultural research-for-development (AR4D) institutions and engaging civil society partners and the private sector more effectively with public-funded actors, for which the appointee will act as focal point in the GFAR Secretariat. Deadline: 9 May 2011. For more information please see http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/VA/pdf/OEKD_659_11_PRJ.pdf.