Assistant Technical Officer (Agriculture), SMART- HVC- Vegetables

Job Description

Title: Assistant Technical Officer (Agriculture), SMART- HVC- Vegetables

Company Name: Jagorani Chakra Foundation

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 40 years

Job Location: Jashore

Salary: Tk. 30000 (Monthly)

Experience:

Published: 2025-10-12

Application Deadline: 2025-10-21

Education:

The candidate should have at least a Diploma in Agriculture

• Age At most 40 years

• Experienced candidates in the agriculture sector will be given priority.

• Relevant working experience with PKSF or any project funded by multi-lateral development partners would be preferred.

• Good computer knowledge (MS Office).

Jagorani Chakra Foundation (JCF) is a national voluntary social welfare organization. JCF is implementing Promotion of Value-added Vegetables for sustainable growth and instituting RECP practices (SMART- HVC- Vegetables) Project as part of the Sustainable Microenterprise and Resilient Transformation (SMART) Project supported by PKSF. To ensure the quality implementation of the project, JCF intends to recruit project staff for this leadership position from qualified candidates of Bangladeshi nationals.

Job Responsibility:

 Assist the Project Manager in implementing project activities.

 Assist to identify potential microenterprises (MEs), select appropriate climate-resilient and resource-efficient cleaner production (RECP) practices for MEs and motivate them to adopt those practices.

 Provide technical support to MEs at cluster level.

 Select MEs for demonstration, set-up demonstration, and follow-up the MEs.

 Assist the Technical Officer to prepare training manuals, leaflets, case stories of the sub-project, etc.

 Arrange training, field days, meetings, workshops, seminars, fairs, Environment Club meetings as per the project plan.

 Explore circular economy, value-added product diversification, new market potentiality.

 Assist to produce monthly, quarterly and annual progress report as per the requirement of the management.

 Regular field visit at project site, tracking the MEs’ progress in adoption of the RECP practices and reporting;

 Maintain linkages with different government departments (i.e. DAE, DoF, DLS, BFRI, DoE), academicians, value-chain actors (hatchery owners, inputs sellers, market actors, transporter etc.), private sector companies, etc.

 Follow the organization's Child Safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender, and Whistle Blowing Policy.

Consolidated Tk. 30,000 per month and other admissible benefits as per organizational policy as well as the project.