Senior Technical Officer
Pubblicato il 12-08-2026 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Roma
Senior Technical Officer (Conservation & Sustainable Use of PGRFA – Farmers’ Rights)
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Location: Italy – Rome.
Duration: Fixed-term, one year with possibility of extension.
Key Responsibilities
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- Leads development, implementation and evaluation of technical issues of assigned programmes/projects; directs review of relevant documents and reports; identifies priorities, liaises with relevant parties and initiates follow-up actions.
- Coordinates programmes and reviews assessment of issues and trends for implementation, and prepares impact evaluations or equivalent studies.
- Supervises preparation of written outputs such as background papers, analyses, sections of reports, studies and inputs to publications.
- Directs substantive support to consultative meetings and conferences, including agenda topics, participant selection and document and presentation preparation.
- Manages outreach activities, designs and conducts training workshops and seminars,
and presents on assigned topics.
- Leads field missions, providing guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties.
- Provides advice to develop policies, strategies, national protocols and guidelines for projects related to FAO work.
- Provides technical leadership for and overall coordination of implementation of conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA and related subsidiary bodies.
- Supports negotiations among Contracting Parties to enhance implementation of Farmers’ Rights.
- Coordinated teams to improve implementation of the Treaty and develop technical products.
- Maintains relationships with FAO Technical Units and Decentralized Offices to enhance policies.
- Gains broad strategic overview of international developments and elevates profile of the International Treaty.
- Supports partnership and membership programmes.
- Conducts research and analysis on technical reports, publicatio