Title: Project Assistant
Company Name: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vacancy: 10
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in social science or diploma in agricultural science/ forestry and any other relevant fields of equivalent education;
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ TYPE OF REQUISITION: National Project Personnel (NPP)
∎ DUTY STATION: Cox`s Bazar Sadar, Ramu, Ukhiya and Teknaf Sub-districts of Cox`s Bazar District
∎ ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT: FAO REPRESENTATIVE IN BANGLADESH
∎ DURATION: 4 (four) months
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Promote climate-resilient homestead vegetable production technologies that will address food security, nutrition and increasing households' income;
∎ Facilitate technical training sessions on improved value crops vegetable production systems to the farmers' group to enhance collective production and link-up with aggregation center and buyers;
∎ In collaboration with FAO colleagues, the incumbent will conduct meetings with stakeholders, collect data related to forestry activities;
∎ Ensure FAO's technical standard in the field implementation of forestry activities i.e. plantation, input distribution, and nursery;
∎ Collect forestry field inventory data, checking and cleaning data, and submission to the FAO's forestry programme team regularly;
∎ Work closely with the partners' staff at Rohingya camps and host communities to provide them on-job training at the field level to demonstrate the technologies;
∎ Provide support to implement of the programmes related to agribusiness, value chain development and establish linkages with farmers' market, fresh food corner/e-voucher shop, niche market with a focus to the commercial, smallholder and marginal farming households;
∎ Contribute to establishing and strengthening aggregation centers and market outlets to explore market opportunities for the potential high-value commodities of the farmers' groups;
∎ Support in the distribution of agricultural inputs like seeds, feeds, farm machinery and good agricultural practices items like vermicompost, sex-pheromone traps, etc. and organize relevant training for the farmer groups;
∎ Facilitate implementation of integrated good farming practices (vegetables-poultry-fish) in collaboration with government technical departments.
∎ Monitor and collect the qualitative and quantitative data of the project's activities to meet the organizational standard and donor's compliance;
∎ Inform beneficiaries of the AAP (Accountability to the Affected People) message, feedback mechanism and ensure all complaints from beneficiaries are recorded, resolved and adequate feedback is timely provided;
∎ Perform other related activities as required.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum Three (3) years of professional working experience in agricultural and/or natural resources programme implementation, data collection, training facilitation, market development, and reporting.
∎ FAO Core Competencies:
∎ Results Focus
∎ Teamwork
∎ Communication
∎ Building Effective Relationships
∎ Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
∎ Technical/Functional Skills:
∎ acilitation and management of capacity building activities with the farmer groups;
∎ Data collection and management;
∎ Preparation and submission of reports and factsheets;
∎ Report on collaboration/linkages with relevant stakeholders;
∎ Level of understanding gained on Good Agricultural Practices, market development and environmental conservation themes;
∎ Sincerity in working with team.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 25 Aug 2021
Company Information:
∎ 16 Aug 2021
∎ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com