Project Coordinator, BD- 17 Project

Job Description

Title: Project Coordinator, BD- 17 Project

Company Name: Jagorani Chakra Foundation

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 50 years

Job Location: Jashore

Salary: Tk. 69458 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 7 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Masters from any recognized university in Business, Agriculture Economics, Agriculture Engineer including agribusiness disciplines with minimum second class/ division or equivalent GPA/CGPA in all academic examinations.

• At least 7 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At most 50 years

Minimum 07 years of the agro-based project working experience in the development/business sector on results-based project management.

 Clear understanding of the vegetable and flower subsector's knowledge and operation.

 Strong understanding of social capital, value chain, business, natural resources management, and livelihood issues.

 Skills and experience in networking skills and capacity building.

 Prepare detail activity plan for program, procurement and budget.

 Formation of Self-Help Group (SHG) and running the saving generation by the farmers.

 Cooperative capacity building on management and ensuring good governance.

 Cooperative capacity building on perspective on business management (collection point/transport/agri-product/technology etc.).

 Formation of FFS, training, organized FFD and vegetable and flower demonstration.

 Establish the market linkage with relevant actors for national and international market.

 Established the Solar irrigation pump in community levels.

 Facilitate to set the target for cooperative about sales and profit.

 Facilitated for enterprise development and access to bank loan.

 Collaboration with government line department and local government for accessing services and resource of Cooperative.

 Represent the projects in different platform, forum, market management committee, chamber of commerce, apex body etc.

 Activate the Advisory committees at union, upazila and district level.

 Ensure CaLF for vegetable and flower production.

 Prepare at a glance report, periodical progress reports and financial report to reflect achievement of project targets, document lessons learnt and record project activities.

 Management supports and decisions to the field staff.

 Communication with Heifer and other stakeholders.

Jagorani Chakra Foundation (JCF) is a national voluntary social welfare organization. JCF is implementing Strengthening Climate Smart Vegetables Value Chain (BD-17) Project supported by HEIFER International. To ensure the quality implementation of the project, JCF intends to recruit project staff from qualified candidates of Bangladeshi nationals.

Job Responsibility :

 Prepare detail implementation plan (DIP) and yearly project budget in consultation with Heifer Bangladesh program team by specifying the activities and timelines.

 Ensure Self Help Group (SHG) and Cooperative formation on time, strengthen the cooperative capacity in relates to organizational (leadership, management, good governance system development, policy and procedure, monitoring etc.), ensuring savings generation and business management.

 Prepare required guidelines on flower and vegetable production, agriculture inputs including solar irrigation, postharvest management and market linkage with value chain actors for vegetable domestic and international market for effective project implementation.

 Support to field team for formation of FFS, FFD, vegetable demonstration, set collection point and build linkage with relevant stakeholder

 Lead the team for identify the farmer and their land for solar irrigation pump installation, ensure to follow the developed business model for irrigation, farmers cooperation for developing underground water distribution channel and system develop for sustainable solar pump operation.

 Explore public and private organizations for joint initiatives to establish viable and sustainable business ventures for warehouse with forward and backward markets; identify local level market opportunities, facilitate coops to set marketing goals, connect coops with the market to sell their products

 Build functional partnerships for coops with relevant stakeholders (private sector, government agencies, other cross-cutting providers, etc.) for sustainable product marketing;

 Identify and build linkages, relations, collaborations and networks with partners and other stakeholders;

 Establish and activate different businesses such as product aggregation and buyer linkage, commercial transportation service for Coops business, contracting/sub-contracting with different stakeholders.

 Develop and manage sectoral networks such as buyer network, input suppliers’ network, etc.;

 Assist to solve business related problems based on need as per cooperative’s bylaws.

 Build capacity of the staff, Coops staff through facilitating training, coaching and other capacity building initiatives on agriculture production, market facilitation, leadership, conflict management, business development, governance, organization development, etc

 Participate in monthly meetings of Cooperative, review their financial and business reports and provide feedback; provide mentoring and coaching to coops to build local capacity for understanding and connecting with markets;

 Organize and facilitate monthly staff meeting, PSRP, preparing monthly plan, reviewing last month accomplishments and ensure monthly action plan of all project staffs;

 Visit HHs and meet with producers, vegetable and flower value chain actors, and other stakeholders in regular manner to identify their needs, observe field activities critically, identify operational and programmatic constraints and ensure remedial options in a participatory manner with the consultation of Heifer program team;

 Form Project Management Committees (PMC), Project advisory committee at union, upazila and district level as per guideline. Facilitate meeting for leveraging service and resources for ensure CaLF

 Build strong relationship and maintain liaison with Upazila level stakeholders particularly UNO, Cooperative Office, Agriculture department, Marketing department, Women and Child Affairs Office, UP, Elites and develop and manage partnership with private sectors and market actors

 Check and verify quarterly fund requisition, develop the report, regular financial report and ensure timely submission; engage monthly and quarterly budget versus expenditure progress

 Review monthly target, progress and quality achievement as per DIP and take necessary action to achieve the target

 Select appropriate participants from cooperative for access to finance from bank and monthly follow up their repayments. Also, follow the enterprise development guideline provided by Heifer International Bangladesh.

 Plan, organize, participate and facilitate various workshops, trainings, meetings, survey and so on with entrepreneurs, coops, traders, service providers and other stakeholders;

 Support Heifer team and other relevant stakeholders to ensure project objectives are met;

 Perform necessary instruction and additional responsibilities required from donor.

 Follow the organization's Child Safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender, Whistle Blowing and other Policies.

Tk. 69,458 per month, Consolidated and other admissible benefits as per organizational policy as well as the project.