Title: Junior sector specialist, PDS, BRAC Seed and Agro Enterprise
Company Name: BRAC Enterprises
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ The candidate should have Bachelor of Science/ Master of Science in Agriculture with minimum CGPA 2.00 or 2nd division/ class or equivalent result in all academic examinations from any recognized institution.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Make a basic survey on crop distribution patterns in the assigned territory.
∎ Ensure progressive farmer selection and supervise all on-farm evaluation trial experiments as well as a demonstration of the supplied varieties and different agro products (fertilizers, chemicals).
∎ Conduct survey for selecting suitable plots in the assigned territory for evaluation trial & setting up demonstration plots.
∎ Preparing Layout of the experiments, Providing modern technical knowhow to the respective farmers, and collecting feedback to providing support to develop new varieties/ products.
∎ Preparing an annual budget, ensuring authentic field-based data collection, taking time to time photographs, data analysis, reporting, and presentation. Also making recommendations.
∎ Participate in the dealer workshop and build relationships with seed dealers.
∎ Actively participate in the ‘Field Day’s and ‘Crop cutting’ functions organized by the marketing & sales division.
∎ Participate in the national & international training program and liaise with experts of public organizations.
∎ Ensure regular market survey and finding hot spots of the source of variety & varieties of desirable characteristics.
∎ Ensure the collection of up-to-date information about the competitive products of the market.
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Health and Life Insurance, Festival Bonuses, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity and others
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 19 Feb 2022
Company Information:
∎ 8 Feb 2022
∎ BRAC Enterprises
∎ Address : BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212
∎ Web : enterprises.brac.net
∎ Business : BRAC Enterprises, the social enterprise and investment division of BRAC were initiated as intervention to serve a need or create market access for the marginal producers. BRAC Enterprises strives to strike the right balance between financial surplus and social returns in order to achieve the targeted double/ triple bottom lines. By operating as a surplus generating enterprises that aims to alleviate poverty through its business operations and supply chain, BRAC succeeds in implementing its vision to serve the society in a profitable manner. Now, these socially profitable enterprises, across crafts, agriculture, livestock, poultry, fisheries, health and retail sector are making a significant contribution to the local economy through the creation of market linkage, entrepreneurs and employment opportunities.
Category: Agro (Plant/Animal/Fisheries)
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