Technical Officer (Agriculture), SMART Project

Job Description

Title: Technical Officer (Agriculture), SMART Project

Company Name: PAGE Development Center

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 40 years

Job Location: Cumilla

Salary: Tk. 50000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• The candidate Should have at least a B Sc Ag, preferred. M S in Horticulture, Plant Pathology. Entomology.

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At most 40 years

• At least 3 years in relevant work

• Should have a motor cycle with driving licence.

• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO.

• Minimum three (3) years of working experience in vegetable related project as a technical person.

• Relevant working experience with PKSF or any project funded by multi-lateral development partners would be preferred

• Good interpersonal skill.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills both in English and Bangla

• High pro-activeness and ability to work with a diverse team

• Experience of providing Skill development of different IGA (HVC Production, Vermi& Trico-Compost Production) and resources management training, awareness building among mass people on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) issues.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

• Good computer knowledge (MS Word, Excel, Power point, typing both English and Bengali).

• Understanding of gender and diversity issues.

Contexts:

The PAGE Development Centre is going to implement a sub-project titled “Promotion of Value-added Vegetables for sustainable growth and instituting RECP practices”, in Agriculture sub-sector as a part of SMART Project. The sub-project aims to increase resource-efficient and resilient green growth of microenterprises (MEs) under the Horticulture sub-sector. The project is jointly financed by the World Bank, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and PAGE Development Centre. The sub-project will be implemented in Cumilla district.

Responsibilities:

TheTechnical Officer (Agriculture) will work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and will undertake the following duties and responsibilities

• Assist the Project Manager in implementing project activities.

• Assist in identifying potential microenterprises (MEs), select appropriate climate-resilient and resource-efficient Cleaner Production (RECP) practices for MEs and motivate them to adopt those practices.

• Provide technical support to MEs at cluster level.

• Select MEs for demonstration, set up a demonstration, and follow up with the MEs.

• Assist the Technical Officer to prepare training manuals, leaflets, case stories of the sub-project, etc.

• Arrange training, field days, meetings, workshops, seminar, fairs and Environment Club meetings as per the project plan.

• Explore circular economy, value-added, product diversification, and new market potentiality.

• Assist in preparing monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports.

• Regular field visits at the project site, tracking the MEs progress in the adoption of the RECP practices and reporting.

• Maintain linkages with different government departments (i.e. DAE, BARI), academicians, value-chain actors, input sellers, nursery, market actors and private sector companies.

• Any other tasks, duties, or specifictasks assigned by the Project Manager and management of the organization.

• Other admissible benefits as per organizational policy as well as the project.