Agriculture Officer

Job Description

Title: Agriculture Officer

Company Name: KOINONIA

Vacancy: --

Age: 25 to 46 years

Job Location: Gaibandha

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 3 years

• Bachelor/Honors

• At least 3 years

• Age 25 to 46 years

• Building of smallholder farmers. Hands-on field experience required, demonstrated experience designing and implementing training modules on agriculture practices or relevant content
• Knowledge of resilient cropping practices, and/or adaptation and farmer risk mitigation techniques preferred.
• Familiarity with agricultural and livestock production, market-linkages, and agricultural constraints.·  
• Excellent facilitation skills, familiarity with training-of-trainer (ToT) approaches and methodologies, and competencies diversified facilitation/training methods and tools.·  
• Demonstrated expertise in agronomic practices, financial literacy, farmer savings and credit, on-farm technologies and capacity building programs for farmers and non-farm livelihood trainings.·  
• Excellent knowledge of English and Bangla (oral and written).

• Provide overall technical expertise and management of all agricultural-related activities.

• Key responsibilities include: engaging and building strong relationships with community members, analyzing data collected to identify agricultural-related gaps, designing priority action plans and training modules on improved agricultural techniques, mechanizations, inputs, etc. in partnership with the community.  

• Develop a clear and adaptive training work plan based on the seasonal calendar, farmer availability, project deadlines and targets, etc. Establish and develop various locally applicable agricultural interventions and oversee capacity building of local farmers and the local agriculture sector.

• Manage a project market study to establish project impact tracking indicators and design key technical focus areas for project interventions.  

• Document field achievements, innovations, failures, and lessons learned to integrate into project activities and inform project strategy.

• Provide input on monitoring & evaluation tools to ensure accurate data collection, verification and analysis of training activities, and to avoid duplication of efforts. Support the development of project reports on agriculture activities, as needed.

• Exhibits and is committed to the project of honesty, transparency, integrity, humility, freedom to innovate, equality, keep a “light” attitude, quality, teamwork, focus on the goals, accountability to all partners, and monitoring to learn and improve.