Job Description
Title: Sector Specialist, Agriculture- UDDOM Project (3rd time)
Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)
Vacancy: 1
Age: 30 to 56 years
Location: Sunamganj (Derai)
Salary: Tk. 50000 - 58000 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 2 years
Published: 15 Aug 2024
Education:
∎ Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Agriculture, Master of Science (MSc) in Agriculture
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 30 to 56 years
∎ 2 years of overall experiences in development sector including Agriculture, livelihood and climate change.
∎ Experiences and skill in advocacy and working with the Local Government Institutions.
∎ Agriculture
∎ Climate Change Adaptation
∎ Resilience
∎ Gender justice and diversity
∎ Community capacity building initiatives
∎ Resilient livelihood
∎ Having knowledge on gender, environmental and social compliance issues
∎ Ability to work under minimal supervision and have impact on input on program indicators.
∎ Excellent organization, coordination, report writing and team management skills.
∎ Strong and effective communication and presentation skills
∎ Advocacy skill with local and national stakeholders
∎ Having respect for different race, ethnic communities and gender.
∎ Project implementation and capacity building competencies
∎ Coordination capabilities
∎ Report writing capacity
∎ KNOWLEDGE:
∎ SKILLS:
∎ COMPETENCIES:
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Ensure technical support to the standing crops, regular field visit and follow-up the activities.
∎ Providing Training/Orientation/Refreshers to the programme participants
∎ Dissemination of agricultural technologies to the farmer’s field.
∎ Programme participants were selected according to the criteria. Preparation of crop cut and cost-benefit reports and other project reports.
∎ Perform awareness raising and capacity building activities
∎ Distribution of agriculture inputs and materials for climate adaptive agricultural activities
∎ Managing relationships with farmers, and other stakeholders to ensure delivery of the programme outputs at field level
∎ Provide support in overall implementation, monitoring and reporting of field level programme activities
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, and encourage others to do so.
∎ The employee will be ready to perform the tasks assigned by organization for the greater interest of the organization and the community even if those tasks are not mentioned in the above role and responsibilities.
∎ S/he will report to the Project Coordinator, FIVDB Uddom Project.
∎ Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is going to implement the "Community-led Climate Smart Innovations to Address Climate Change Impacts (Uddom) Project' in Derai Upazila under Sunamgonj district in partnership with BRAC. The present project tenure is 5 years. We have initially recruited staff up to 26 May 2026 with the expectation of extending this period.
∎ The Sector Specialist, Agriculture will be the technical lead for the Agriculture sector interventions in their respective geographic regions. S/he is responsible to provide technical support in the field level to contribute in increasing productivity through extending climate resilient agriculture technologies to the farmer’s field. He/she will closely work with the Project Coordinator to ensure smooth and effective operations of the program in a timely manner.
∎ Ensure technical support to the standing crops, regular field visit and follow-up the activities.
∎ Providing Training/Orientation/Refreshers to the programme participants
∎ Dissemination of agricultural technologies to the farmer’s field.
∎ Programme participants were selected according to the criteria. Preparation of crop cut and cost-benefit reports and other project reports.
∎ Perform awareness raising and capacity building activities
∎ Distribution of agriculture inputs and materials for climate adaptive agricultural activities
∎ Managing relationships with farmers, and other stakeholders to ensure delivery of the programme outputs at field level
∎ Provide support in overall implementation, monitoring and reporting of field level programme activities
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, and encourage others to do so.
∎ The employee will be ready to perform the tasks assigned by organization for the greater interest of the organization and the community even if those tasks are not mentioned in the above role and responsibilities.
∎ S/he will report to the Project Coordinator, FIVDB Uddom Project.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Mobile bill, Provident fund, Gratuity
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ As per the project policy of FIVDB and the budgeted provision of this project.
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Sunamganj (Derai)
Read Before Apply: FIVDB affirms the 'ZERO' tolerance approach against sexual exploitation and abuse. And is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and expects staff to promote the welfare of children and adults at all times. FIVDB expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.
FIVDB is an equal-opportunity organization and any kind of persuasion will be construed as automatic disqualification. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.
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Company Information:
∎ Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.
Address::
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.
Application Deadline: 18 Aug 2024
Category: NGO/Development
