National Key Trainer in Poultry Farming

Job Description

Title: National Key Trainer in Poultry 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 agriculture science, veterinary science or animal husbandry or other related fields. Alternative poultry production 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): Agriculture, capacity buildling, Poultry, Poultry Farm Management, 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 Poultry 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 poultry farming expert to develop poultry farming training curriculum and training resources covering the following key topics:
∎ • Work requirements for a poultry farm;
∎ • Brood management (including animal welfare);
∎ • Health management;
∎ • Climate change and poultry farming;
∎ • Preventing climate-related stress in poultry farms; and
∎ • Maintenance of farm equipment, building, and environment (including waste management).
∎ Deliver three days’ training in poultry 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 poultry 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 poultry farming expert

Additional Requirements:
∎ University degree in agriculture science, veterinary science or animal husbandry or other related fields. Alternative poultry production 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 poultry 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 agriculture production, particularly poultry production, in Bangladesh is highly desirable.

Salary: Negotiable

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 for Poultry 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- Poultry 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.