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In This Role, You Will Make An Impact By:

• Technical Guidance and Support
• Provide strategic direction and oversight for the design and delivery of soil-mapping activities to ensure coherence across ASTYE.
• Lead the identification of critical soil data gaps.
• Oversee the enhancement of the National Soil Information System (NSIS) discovery portal and functional APIs.
• Manage the development of soil data generation standards and data-sharing policies.
• Oversee the design and delivery of water-mapping activities and actionable water resource insights.
• Manage the identification of water resource information gaps and prioritization of districts.
• Direct the production of foundational water resource maps, analytical layers, and water atlases.
• Support integration of water mapping results with existing databases and MoWE systems.
• Capacity Building
• Establish, onboard, and align a multi-sectoral soil mapping taskforce.
• Deliver training to taskforce members and soil lab technicians on testing procedures and calibration.
• Oversee the mobilization and organization of youth- led soil testing businesses in priority districts.
• Facilitate the distribution of testing kits and onboard youth groups into NSIS-compatible workflows.
• Lead the design and delivery of capacity-building trainings for sub-regional and district experts.
• Equip experts with the tools and systems required to interpret and use water resource information for irrigation planning.
• Setup quality control and verification systems for water data management.
• Coordinate with laboratory and IT service providers for data collection and integration.
• Knowledge Management and Learning
• Contribute to DSG’s knowledge management and learning agenda by documenting lessons learned, best practices, and emerging trends.
• Document lessons learned and best practices from ASTYE’s interventions, contributing to the program’s learning agenda and disseminating knowledge within DSG and to external stakeholders.
• Conduct research and analysis on emerging trends and innovations in data and information systems in the context of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and share findings with DSG program teams to inform program adaptation and innovation.
• Establish, onboard, and align a multi-sectoral soil mapping taskforce.
• Deliver training to taskforce members and soil lab technicians on testing procedures and calibration.