National e-commerce and agriculture digitalization expert (SC-9)
Job Description
Title: National e-commerce and agriculture digitalization expert (SC-9)
Company Name: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Advanced university degree in rural development, agribusiness, social science or a related field.
Job Context:
∎ Organizational Unit: FABGD
∎ Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
∎ Type of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
∎ Grade Level: N/A
∎ Duration: 4 months (with possibility of extension upon availability of resources)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Gather experience from FAO-led rural digitization and certification projects, such as the digital village initiative and the support to the Dhaka farmers' market and to the farmers supplying the market with assured safe vegetables, draw lessons learned and prepare a digitalisation strategy for the project.
∎ Provide capacity building to RAINS implementing agencies on digitization relevant to their areas of work and assist them in the identification and use of digital tools in their work.
∎ Contribute to the curriculum development for the Farmer Field School (FFS) programmes and the post-harvest handling, primary processing and storage guidelines, including sessions on digitization and e-commerce. Subsequently facilitate these sessions during the Training of Trainers and provide follow-up coaching during roll-out of the training programme.
∎ Contribute to the business skills training of women and youth supported by the project on how to use digital tools to streamline payment transactions and other business processes in the development of their rural enterprises.
∎ Provide capacity building to PO in the area of e-commerce, and other digitalization options relevant for their farming systems and their PO activities.
∎ Explore opportunities for connecting POs with established e-commerce providers.
∎ In case opportunities for value addition through a Participatory Guarantee System or third-party certification are confirmed, assist POs using IT for their internal control and traceability systems.
∎ Any other tasks assigned by the Senior Technical Advisor..
Additional Requirements:
∎ Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
∎ National of Bangladesh or a legal resident in the country.
∎ FAO Core Competencies
∎ Results Focus
∎ Teamwork
∎ Communication
∎ Building Effective Relationships
∎ Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
∎ Technical/Functional Skills
∎ Hands-on experience with e-commerce, traceability systems and digitalization in the agriculture sector.
∎ Experience working with the private sector (input providers and produce buyers, small-scale agriculture enterprises) and producer organizations.
∎ Experience in training and coaching, preferably of government extension staff and of farmers.
∎ Excellent communication skills including writing skills, proven ability to convey complex ideas through clear communication, and concise reports, and effective oral presentations.
∎ Experience in working with public administration of central and local level in Bangladesh.
∎ Readiness to carry out visits to project sites and duty travel as required.
∎ Willingness to work as a team member with multicultural and multidisciplinary team of experts.
∎ Ability to work independently and proceed with objectives of the assignment work under pressure and meet deadlines.
∎ Self-motivation, willingness to learn and good work ethics.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 29 Jul 2023
Company Information:
∎ 18 Jul 2023
∎ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
∎ Business : UN Organization
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 29th Jul 2023
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