National Key Trainer in Fish Farming
Job Description
Title: National Key Trainer in Fish Farming
Company Name: Cufa Ltd
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in any discipline
∎ University degree in aquacultural science, fisheries, marine biology, agricultural economics, environmental management, or other related fields. Alternative aquacultural training or qualifications combined with more than 3 years of relevant professional experience can be considered.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):
Aquaculture, capacity building skills, Training and Development
Job Context:
∎ Cufa is an International Development Agency with a focus on promoting financial inclusion and increasing financial literacy and improving economic livelihoods. Cufa has been developing community access to affordable financial services in the Asia Pacific region for 50 years, working cooperatively at grass-roots through to government levels to create sustainable livelihoods, improve lives, and relieve poverty.
∎ Cufa is seeking a National Key Trainer in Fish Farming to work on a two-year ADB-funded project on “Climate Resilience Capacity Building for Women in Poultry and Fish Farming”. This project is being implemented in Bangladesh jointly by Cufa and New Hope Bangladesh. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to food security by increasing the capacity of female farmers in climate resilient fish and poultry farming practices as well as in financial literacy.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Work closely with international fish farming expert to develop fish farming training curriculum and training resources covering the following key topics:
∎ o Work requirements for a fish farm;
∎ o Health management;
∎ o Climate change and fish farming;
∎ o Preventing climate-related stress in fish farms;
∎ o Methods for mitigating the effects of climate change-related extreme weather events; and
∎ o Maintenance of farm equipment, building, and environment.
∎ Deliver three days’ training in fish farming best practices to all-female cohorts of 1800 smallholder farmers
∎ Identify, train and supervise field trainers/local resource persons in coordination with project team and New Hope Bangladesh
∎ Plan and coordinate the delivery of training in fish farming best practices to female farmers
∎ Prepare the training reports
∎ Conduct daily monitoring and evaluation of training
∎ Assist in data collection for outcome/impact monitoring of the training
∎ Other tasks as assigned by Team Leader and international fish farming expert
Additional Requirements:
∎ • University degree in aquacultural science, fisheries, marine biology, agricultural economics, environmental management, or other related fields. Alternative aquacultural training or qualifications combined with more than 3 years of relevant professional experience can be considered.
∎ Female candidates are encouraged to apply who will receive highest consideration in the selection process.
∎ Prior experience with conducting training programs for smallholder farmers in the fish farming sector – compulsory requirement.
∎ Proven experience in training smallholder farmers in climate resilient farming practices – compulsory requirement.
∎ Prior experience of working with women farmers, including delivering training programs to all-female trainee groups – highly desired.
∎ Fluent in Bengali and verbal and written communication skills in English – compulsory requirement.
∎ Proven experience and familiarity with aquaculture production, particularly fish production, in Bangladesh is highly desirable
Salary:
∎ Negotiable
∎ Consultancy remuneration will be negotiated with the successful candidate.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Insurance
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 23 Jun 2022
Company Information:
∎ 26 May 2022
∎ Cufa Ltd
∎ Address : 2/25 Cooper St, Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia
∎ Web : https://www.cufa.org.au/who-we-are/about-us/
∎ Business : Our vision is for communities of the Asia Pacific region to be free of poverty through economic development and self-determination. Our mission is to facilitate the development of economic capacity through agriculture, education, employment and enterprise opportunities to create value and self-reliance.
Category: Agro (Plant/Animal/Fisheries)
: If you can demonstrate that you can fulfil the requirements of the National Key Trainer in Fish Farming, please submit a cover letter with detailed CV and expected monthly/daily remuneration to [email protected] using the subject line "**Application for National Key Trainer- Fish Farming**."Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, applications will be reviewed as they are received and the position may be filled before the closing date: Closing date: 27 May 2022.Cufa takes the protection of children very seriously and as an organization we expect all staff members to comply with our child protection policy. The successful candidate will need to sign a child protection declaration and undergo referee checks.
