Uttaran

Summary

Vacancy: —
Location: Khulna
Experience: At least 2 years
Published: 4 Sep 2024

Requirements

Education

Diploma/ graduate in Agriculture/Bachelor degree in relevant field.

Experience

At least 2 years

Additional Requirements

Experienced at least 2 years in community mobilization and facilitation of Climate Smart/Regenerative agriculture technologies
Experienced in facilitating Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) intervention will get preference
Experienced in working with SaFaL project will get added value.
Experienced in M&E data collection, compilation and progress report preparation.

Person Specifications & Attributes:

Excellent motivational and community mobilization skill
Must have valid driving licence
Good training facilitation skill with ability to provide technical support to farmers
Skill in developing and maintaining effective liaison with the local level stakeholders including government officials and private sectors
Good negotiation and conflict resolution skill
Proactive and able to take challenges
A good team player and contribute to enhance team spirit
Able to collect project relevant information and report preparation

Responsibilities & Context

Introduction

Supported by the Dutch Government, Solidaridad, in partnership with Uttaran, is planning to implement the project ‘SAFAL for Integrated Water Resources Management (SAFAL for IWRM)’ put forward a community-based water management model for enhancing sustainable use, protection and restoration of Watersheds for resilient agriculture through operationalization of IWRM in Southwest Bangladesh. It will improve and diversify coastal agriculture of Bangladesh through innovative ecosystem-based water and land use planning that would provide greater climate resiliency and economic return for the coastal communities. The project outlined following three pathways to achieve the overall goal-

Pathway 1: Climate Smart and Regenerative Agriculture Production System to improve water use efficiency and soil fertility

Pathway 2: Watershed Protection to ensure sustainable harness of ground and surface water for irrigation

Pathway 3: Watershed management and governance to ensure equitable access to water use for irrigation.

SAFAL for Integrated Water Resource Management (SAFAL for IWRM) project is going to recruit Water Cluster Facilitator, responsible for implementing project interventions at the community level.

Overall Job responsibility:

The Water Cluster Facilitator is the frontline staff of the project with main responsibility for delivering project interventions at the community level. He/she will be responsible for mobilizing the farmers and other stakeholders for ensuring participation in the project activities and achieving set targets of the project in the target farming communities. Under the overall supervision of his/her supervisor and backstopping support from technical team will plan, implement and monitor the project activities at community level.

Duties and Accountabilities:

Conduct assessment of micro watersheds and select suitable micro watersheds for rejuvenation according to Micro watershed assessment and selection guideline.
Appropriately facilitate the entire process of micro watershed assessment, selection and documentation ensuring participation of all relevant stakeholders (Farmers, officials of DAE, DOF, DLS, BWDB, LEGE, Union Parishad etc)
Appropriately demark the catchment areas of selected micro watersheds, collect all required information of the catchment areas and collectivize farmers of catchment areas into Local Water User Groups (LWUG) according to LWUG formation and facilitation guideline.
Facilitate formation of Watershed Committee for each of the selected micro watershed ensuring women and youth representation as stated in the guideline.
Support the Watershed committee to remain effectively functional with proper governance.
Provide organization and facilitation support to watershed committee and LWUG for developing design for micro watershed rejuvenation and water reservoir, improvement of the design in consultation with relevant government departments and implementation of the rejuvenation/excavation works.
Ensure participation and contributions of farmers of the catchment areas, relevant government departments, Union Parishad and other stakeholders in micro watershed rejuvenation and development of water reservoirs.
Organize and facilitate capacity building training for the farmers for adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) and Regenerative Agricultural technologies with focus on efficient use of water in agriculture.
Select suitable farmers and provide support to establish demonstration and pilot plot on CSA/Regenerative agriculture, water use efficiency and soil health improvement technologies.
Provide technical and backstopping support to farmers of watershed catchment areas for adopting most suitable cropping pattern, CSA/Regenerative Agricultural technologies and water use efficient technologies considering local ecosystem and market demands
Facilitate development of ‘catchment area cropping plan’ and provide follow up support to LWUG and Watershed Committee for implementation of the plan
Provide necessary support to develop Digital Advisory Services and promote use of digital advisory services by the farmers.
Provide planning and technical support to the farmers of LWUG for improvement of farm structure that support efficient use of water.
Collect M&E data, compile the data and prepare report according to SAFAL-IWRM M&E Framework.
Support to organize training, meeting, workshop and other project events with guidance from the supervisors.
Maintain effective liaison with the local representatives of private sectors, local extension officials, Union Parishad and community leaders to ensure their supports in project implementation.
Engage and participate in other activities as will be deemed necessary for project implementation and will be assigned by your supervisors.

Compensation & Other Benefits

The incumbent will be deployed with Uttaran and will be based at community level. The employment contract, rule & regulation and benefit packages will be governed by the HR policy of Uttaran.

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Khulna

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