Website Aga Khan Rural Support Programme
Skills & Competencies required:
- Should be capable of coordinating and managing a team of 10-12 teammates.
- Should understand and be able to execute commodity value chains.
- Hands on practical understanding of market and market mechanisms.
- Market development for various agriculture commodities, value chain analysis and value chain Development.
- Capability of analysing financial and business data.
- Understanding of FPOs and FPO eco system (Legal compliances, legal environment, donors)
- Business planning, budget preparation, monitoring and review of business plan.
- Higher level Computer literacy, especially excel, data management, office 365 and MS office 365.
Understanding of Gender inclusivity
Job Profile: - Carefully understand the programmes and different project, area of the programme its issues and challenges
- Understand the team with whom to coordinated for the implementation in the field
- Training of the team on various fronts of agriculture and its innovation with special context of bio-diversification of cropping systems.
- Engaging techniques such as System of Crop Intensification, Conservation Agriculture IPM and INM for enhancement of the production sustainably
- Planning of agriculture budget for the implementation
- Coordination of field team, extension officers, village level volunteers for the implementation of the agriculture programme
- Identification the potential market and develop a plan of agriculture production of our core beneficiaries.
- Strengthening of Existing Village Level Institutions Like- Kisan Vikas Samiti, Sinchai Vikas Samiti, and Federation etc.
- Follow up and data base management of existing of activities like Vermicompost, Group Irrigation System, Green Net House Nursery, KVS, Conservation Agriculture, Kitchen and Landless Garden etc.
- To impart training regarding on-going activities as well as dissemination of information about new agricultural technologies and methodologies among the farmers.
- Lead team such as inputs – seeds, integrated crop management, bio-controls etc. for demonstrations and scaling.
- Trainings of village volunteers, organizing exposure visits for them in programme significant locations.
- Linking with the local stakeholders – agriculture university, KVK, other NGOS, technical organization to support agriculture intervention in various forms.
- Organizing farmers in village institution such as learner’s group for the up-gradation of agriculture knowledge on timely basis
- Documenting written and visual on success stories, case studies from the field
- Timely reporting to the donor in English with the help of field team and research and monitoring
- Managing necessary field data/photographs required for reporting to the donor
- To work in guidance with the programme manager/ Area Manager and project mandate that is to enhance the production, productivity and area under pulses in the selected villages
- Any other task assigned by AKRSP (I) management.
Benefits: - Excellent opportunity to be part of Internationally renowned NGO.
- On site and off-site in-depth training for all profiles.
- 5 days week and flexible working hours.
- Medical insurance for all team members, their spouse, and children.
- Maternity and paternity leaves.
- 15 General Leaves in a year. Additionally, there are 16.5 earned Leaves which can be encashed if not availed.
- There are also 10 declared holidays and 3 optional holidays for all team members.
- There is Diwali break for 5 days ever year.
- Women team members can avail 2 days of work from home every month during menstrual periods if required.
Women, LGBTQ + and differently abled candidates are encouraged to apply.
To apply for this job please visit www.akrspindia.org.in.
