Project Manager/Coordinator /Ps (Agri-Business)

Location: Sayla, Gujarat

Education: Postgraduate in Agri Business/MBA/Post Graduate

Experience: Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience

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.

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  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.

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  To impart training regarding on-going activities as well as dissemination of information about new agricultural technologies and methodologies among the farmers.

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  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.