Country: Afghanistan
Closing date: 11 Jan 2016
Remote Monitoring Field Engineer, Kabul, Afghanistan
Company Profile
MSI is an international development firm with a 30-year history of helping to deliver results across the developing world. In 2008, we became part of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with Coffey''s international development offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Sudan. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and anticorruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
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Project Summary**
In November 2015 MSI was awarded a three-year contract to conduct third party monitoring (TPM) of Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) projects for the World Bank. The ARTF TPM program was put in place to meet a number of objectives:
- Given an increasingly challenging security environment, the TPM program provides critical data from the field as input to the World Bank''s implementation support and GoA line ministries'' own monitoring systems. The TPM program provides data on nationwide project sites, including asset verification and quality assurance, where World Bank staff are not always able to systematically visit the sites of geographically widely disbursed projects.
- The TPM program provides additional evidence that World Bank-funded programs are being implemented correctly, provides assurance to donors, focusing on infrastructure quality assurance and social and environmental safeguards, gender issues and select financial/fiduciary aspects.
- The Supervisor Agent (SA) provides GoA line ministries with project monitoring and data collection support and shows how such practices could improve GoA project performance and results. This also helps strengthen GoA line ministries'' own monitoring programs. The SA reports directly to the World Bank, but also works closely with GoA line ministries responsible for project implementation at local and central levels.
\Please note: Only Afghan citizens are eligible for this position.**
Position Summary
The incumbent has three primary responsibilities within the scope of the ARTF Monitoring Program:
- Set-up, operate and maintain MSI''s remote monitoring prototype development and testing laboratory, including preparing soil and growing media, planting and cultivating assorted plants (especially hydroponic and high tunnel vegetables), and participating in various horticultural activities—both supervised and unsupervised.
- Lead local community coordination, set-up, operation and maintenance of MSI remote monitoring projects at select sites across Afghanistan, where accessible.
- Coordinate remote monitoring activities with Government of Afghanistan ministries.
Responsibilities
The incumbent''s individual responsibilities within the scope of this program include:
- Assist the M&E Technology Manager to define required functionalities and resulting specifications for remote monitoring assignments.
- Assist in the design of sensing, measuring and recording devices along with other instrumentation employed to study agricultural crops, water resources and the environment.
- Assist the M&E Technology team develop monitoring system prototypes, conduct tests and record the results for each trial.
- Assist the M&E Technology team design, set-up, operate and maintain a remote monitoring system development and testing laboratory.
- Analyse GPS and weather data and use computer modelling to advise farmers on land use, for example on how to increase crop yields.
- Conduct research on the agricultural crops, soil and water system to improve productivity.
- Investigate ways to conserve soil and water in service of improving agricultural crop yield.
- Look into ways to improve the processing and storage of agricultural products.
- Assist in the design of products to increase farming productivity.
- Assist in the design of irrigation, drainage and flood control systems.
- Work with local communities and Government of Afghanistan ministry teams to coordinate, set up and test remote monitoring system prototypes under real conditions, such as on farms, canals, rivers, etc.
- Develop remote monitoring system operation and maintenance manuals.
- Train and support local national remote monitoring user groups.
- Other duties as assigned by MSI Senior Management.
Qualifications
The required qualifications for this position are as follows:
- A university degree from a recognized higher education institution in agricultural, biological or a related engineering field.
- Minimum two (2) years demonstrable work experience in a field related to agriculture and water resource management.
- Experience with hydroponics/aquaponics, including drip, ebb and flow and NFT systems as well as lighting configurations, is preferred.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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