Title: Field Associate (FA)
Company Name: Shushilan
Vacancy: 14
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Cox's Bazar Sadar, Ramu, Teknaf, Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor Degree or Diploma in Agriculture where Diploma in Agriculture will be given priority
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
NGO
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide assistance to Local Service Providers (LSPs) within his/her assigned Aggregation Centers/ Camps.
∎ Take part in formation of Farmers groups and Rohingya Refuzee Groups under the guidance of the Project Officer/Market Development Officers of Shushilan;
∎ Assist/conduct participatory Market Chain Analysis (PMCA), Sub sector analysis in collaboration with farmers' group, to develop a business plan for each group;
∎ Take part in conduct training need assessment of Rohingya Refuzees;
∎ Facilitate training sessions with Farmers groups and Rohingya Refuzee Groups especially on homestead vegetable gardening and agro-food processing;
∎ Assist farmers group in increasing crop intensity and innovation in the following subsector;
∎ Documentation, monitoring and reporting and develop monthly report in prescribed format;
∎ Update farmers profile, production prediction, economic return of production and initiative by FFS/farmers' group;
∎ To promote farm mechanization & diversification, judicious use of water resources for irrigation, post-production activities, and Good Agronomic Practices (GAP);
∎ Promote financial inclusion for farmers' group by promoting access to agricultural credit, savings and its reinvestment in profitable activities;
∎ Support Aggregation centers to strengthen the capacity of the aggregation Center Management Committee;
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 25 years
∎ At least 2 years working experiences with agricultural projects, livelihood projects and markets. Experiences will be flexible who have diploma in Agriculture.
∎ The incumbent will be from anywhere in Bangladesh but priority will be given to the inhabitants of Cox's Bazar district and conversant with local language. Each FA have to manage 20-25 Groups (farmers' group and Rohingya Refuzee Groups). However, the person should have the following qualifications but not limited to -
∎ Market literacy/leadership, agricultural production/results oriented.
∎ Basic knowledge in operation of digital devices.
∎ Effective communication and relationship building with farmers groups, buyer, seller and DAE
∎ Problem solving and decision making for the farmers' group.
∎ Time flexibility;
∎ Practicing gender, PSEA, Safeguarding, code of conduct and cultural diversity.
∎ Basic computer literacy on MS word and MS Excel.
Salary: Tk. 25000 - 30000 (Monthly)
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 8 Nov 2023
Company Information:
∎ 1 Nov 2023
∎ Shushilan
∎ Address : Head Office: 155, Jalil Shorani, Commercial Cum Residential Area, Rayermohol Boyra, Khulna-9000
∎ Business : Shushilan - a non-profit organization has been working in the field of Socio-economic development, Education & ICT and Health & Nutrition Program, Disaster, Climate Change and Environmental Resource Management, Human Rights and Good Governance and Sustainable Peoples Organization in Bangladesh since 1991.
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com