Marcus Jones

New Roots Coordinator @International Rescue Committee

Phoenix, AZ, US

Managing and implementing livelihood and food security activities throughout relevant project cycles- project design, start-up, implementation, and close-out- to ensure efficient and effective implementation in line with IRC’s New Roots Program quality principles and standards, MEAL policies, and donor ( USDA, NRCS) requirements. • Overseeing community outreach, recruitment, and orientation for food security and climate-smart programming.• Supervising the implementation of urban farming and community gardening program and ensuring best practices for conservation and climate-smart agriculture. • Designing and delivering instructional training and workshops on urban farming and business skills to refugee New Roots farmers; providing individualized technical assistance to farmers as well partners. • Coordinating with the MEAL department to establish the New Roots program’s MEAL system- to ensure adequate internal control systems to support data integrity for both qualitative and quality reporting on project indicators • Supporting New Roots partners and facilitating training on Conservation agriculture, land management, food security, business development, and marketing• Ensuring programming activities align to grant requirements and outcomes. • Proactively identifying issues and concerns and using participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles • Contributing to grant writing and other New Roots funding opportunities

University of Cape Coast

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Crop Science

Njala University, Sierra Leone

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Agronomy

Unity Environmental University

Master's degree, Carbon Ecology and Management

Cuttington University

Bachelor of Science, General Agriculture