Digital Agriculture and Innovation Specialists

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• Digital Agriculture and Innovation Capacity Development
• Supporting National Digital Agriculture Strategies and Polices
• Global Network of Digital Agriculture and Innovation Hubs
• Digital Innovation and Partnerships within UN to support various stakeholders

• Identify, accelerate and scale-up innovative and digital solutions and business models in countries. 
• Support to regional and country-level digital innovation initiatives on digital inclusion; 
• Support specific OIN projects to build, promote and provide capacity development for strategies, policies, tools and deployment of digital agriculture technologies products for the Organization;
• Develop and promote participatory and inclusive formulation of national digital agriculture strategies, roadmaps and policies;
• Collect and analyse data on digital transformation status and trends, policies and strategies, challenges for rural and urban areas, understanding different forms of digital divide, as well as assist in monitoring indicators on digital agriculture transformation and other information in support of programme of work;
• Develop local digital capacities that empower decision-makers, advisors/extensionists and smallholders (e.g. in digital literacy, skills and tech competences);
• Plan, organize and conduct digital innovation needs assessment and digital innovation capacity development trainings/workshops (online and offline), acting as workshop/training facilitator and trainer;
• Support global, regional and country-level digital initiatives, including assistance in assessments of gaps, opportunities and scale-up digital agriculture solutions in support of FAO’s priorities; 
• Pilot and scale up successful digital innovations (including cutting-edge technologies) and facilitate local digital innovation processes (experimenting);
• Increase availability, awareness and uptake of solutions and knowledge (e.g. next decade’s top-100 agri-tech innovations);
• Plan, organize and run agri-tech sprint programmes activities such as innovation challenges, farmhack, bootcamps, etc.;
• Liaise with technical divisions and decentralized offices regarding innovation for digital agriculture issues and opportunities, promoting the reuse of known solutions and the take-up of new innovative solutions;
• Support formulation and coordinate implementation of the LoA or PO by service providers as established in project documents;
• Lead or support the ideation, set-up and running of events (workshops, conferences, forums, dialogues, etc.) to foster knowledge sharing and networking among experts and practitioners in the digital agriculture and innovation fora.
• Contribute to the establishment of partnerships with academia, civil society, and private sector to support joint initiatives related to digital agriculture and innovation. 
• Contribute to activities under the WSIS Action Line 7, and MoUs with other UN agencies such as ITU and UNIDO; 
• Contribute to the implementation of the Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs and to identify and share knowledge, good practices and lessons learned in digital agriculture and innovation.     
• Provide inputs to documents, proposals, materials, speeches, presentations, and assistance on matters related to the digital agriculture and innovation.
• Develop draft slides or draft speech text for presentations by senior FAO management related to the digital innovation domain.
• Perform other duties as required

• Advanced university degree University degree, in agriculture economics, agribusiness, digital agriculture, innovation systems, development studies, social science, innovation, computer science and engineering or related studies or any other relevant degree.  
• Working knowledge of English, French or Spanish and limited knowledge (Level B) of one of the other two of one of the other two or Arabic, Chinese, Russian. For PSAs it can be required working knowledge only one language.

• For Consultants: 1+ years of relevant professional working experience in similar environment
• For PSAs: 1+ years of relevant professional working experience in similar environment

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