Heifer International is looking for Program Officer 2025 in Jashore and Rajshahi
Job Responsibilities:
Ensure professional standards of work are implemented, maintained, and completed on time
- Adopt appropriate strategies and plans to meet the goal and targets of the project
- Prepare required standard guidelines for effective implementation impacting target communities.
- Prepare Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP), facilitate implementation, and track progress regularly.
- Support the project partner in starting up and implementing the projects with a good and adequate understanding of the Project agreement.
- Provide backstopping to project partners, private sector partners, Cooperative on program management.
- Support and coordinate with the admin and finance team to ensure the project’s operations, legal, and audit compliances are met.
- Support to transform the Coops as sustainable business hubs (business aggregation center, transport support, quality input and output market linking).
- Collaborate and closely work with thematic leads and ensure quality in project service delivery.
- Ensure effective mobilization of project staff to ensure quality.
- Maintain transparency, code of conduct and meet donor compliance during project implementation.
Coordination, Monitoring, and Reporting
- Visit and supervision of the project sites, collaborate with farmers, SHGs, SHG networks, cooperatives with the purpose of understanding the context, monitor progress, and a follow up on recommendations.
- Reporting of the progress and discuss next steps as appropriate.
- Collaborate and develop strong working relationship with local government for smooth project implementation.
- Coordinate with related private sector (market actors, BFIs, insurance companies etc.) and ensure required services are delivered
- Good Governance established in cooperative businesses with transparency and accountability.
- Ensure the project milestones, objectives and requirements are fulfilled.
Networking and Technical support and Backstopping
- Develop and maintain a sound network of government, other stakeholder, project partners and counterparts.
- Develop and maintain links with relevant professional bodies.
- Ensure the capacity building of project partners, including training and backstopping.
- Create enabling environment to tap and disburse resources.
- Cooperative formation and capacity building.
- Linkage stablishes between Value chain actors/Buyers.
- Support Small Holder farmers, Lead farmers, entrepreneurs, and cooperatives to leverage resources from local government, provincial government, and other opportunities.
Location:
BangladeshBenefits
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Eligibilities
Job Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a recognized university in Business Administration, Rural Development Studies, Business Studies, Agriculture or related field.
- Minimum four (4) years’ experience in a similar context is required. Other job-related education and/or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements.
- Experience in training facilitation and training curriculum development using participatory methodologies.
- Experience in leading/facilitating business development/market linkages/access to finance or development of business and production plans.
- Knowledge in agriculture cooperative development.
- Fluent in local language and English – both spoken and written.
- Possess a working knowledge on sustainable livelihoods, value chain and market development.
- Knowledge of community organizations – SHGs, farmer producer groups, etc.
- Experience of field data collection.
- Good analytical skills and ability to verify information.
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