Technical Officer (Agriculture), SMART Project

Page Development Center

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Summary

  • Vacancy: 1
  • Age: at most 40 years
  • Location: Cumilla
  • Minimum Salary: Tk. 50000 (Monthly)
  • Experience: At least 3 years
  • Published: 24 Sep 2024

 

Requirements

Education

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

Experience

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

Additional Requirements

  • 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.

Responsibilities & Context

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.

Compensation & Other Benefits

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

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Cumilla

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