Agriculture Technician

Community Development and Environment Conservation Forum CDECF Sindhupalchok

Vacancy Announcement 

Publish date 17 August 2023  

Community Development and Environment Conservation Forum (CDECF), registered in the District Administration Office (DAO) Sindhupalchok and Social Welfare Council (SWC) in the year 1999, is a non-profit making organization formed by sustainable development across the country. CDECF has been providing implementation technical support to Food and Nutrition Security Enhancement Project (FANSEP) in Indrawati RM and Lisankhupakhar RM of Sindhupalchok which is funded by FAO. For this, CDECF is seeking qualified and dynamic Agriculture Technicians (AT) the summary of ToR is given below.

1. Vacancy No 9/080/081

2. Position: Agriculture Technician (No- 1)

3. Qualifications/experience required:

Description of Job

Under the overall guidance of the Executive Director/Focal Person, the Agriculture Technician is responsible for overseeing the crop-related project interventions and shall shoulder the overall responsibilities for the technical support on the implementation of project activities in Lisankhupakhar RM or as assigned by the organization. S/he shall also be matrix supervised and task assigned by Cluster Crop Value Chain Specialist of FAO.  

The Agriculture Technician carries out tasks in accordance with the FANSEP, Project Cluster unit program and policies and systems of CDECF. S/he should follow the guidance of the FAO staff and closely work in coordination with other stakeholders at the local level.  

Major responsibilities 

Using technical guidance from FAO TA and CDECF, the AT will perform the following tasks:

• Formation of new groups and selection of existing groups (FFS groups, mother groups, and farmer groups)
• Conduct group-level orientation/meeting to sensitize FANSEP activities.
• Facilitate groups to prepare by-laws, group registration at concerned municipalities and institutions and provide group strengthening support.
• Facilitate groups in developing proposals/business plans.
• Mobilize crop FFS groups for crop FFS and other training in line with the work plan of the FANSEP/FAO-TA Project
• Identification of lead farmers from the FFS and facilitate their participation in additional refresher training.
• Prepare and submit trimester and monthly Joint work plans and monthly progress reports as per the format developed by the project.
• Identification of demonstration sites, as well as the timely distribution of quality inputs.
• Facilitate to prepare field days in the GPs, related to the demonstrations and FFS topics.
• Implementation of seed-related activities. 
• Provide management, advisory, and other technical support to farmers/farmer groups to the project communities, and adjoining communities within reasonable reach.  
• Technical support to farmer/farmer groups.
• Monitor, supervise and prepare monthly progress reports on project-related activities. 
• Collect and report field-level data required for PMIS to the Crop Value Chain Specialist of FAO-TA monthly and when required. 
• Prepare and submit trimester and monthly joint work plans as per the format developed by the project.
• Assist in conducting Model FFS organized by FAO-TA project and help in collecting/recording relevant data from on-farm trials conducted in the FFS.
• Report on progress in the use of funds disbursed to the beneficiary groups by the project as instructed and on the implementation progress of business plans and matching grant program. 
• Implement awareness-raising activities on environmental and social issues and safeguard aspects and collect information as per project requirements.
• Undertake other project-related tasks as assigned by CDECF and FAO TA-Team

Minimum Qualification and skills required.

• Minimum SLC pass with JTA level course of TSLC in Agriculture with at least 2 years of experience in agriculture development projects/activities.
• Hardworking, adaptive, result oriented, and a good team player.
• Basic knowledge and skills in computer
• Two-wheeler licensed holders will be given priority.

Application procedure:

Interested Nepali applicants having the above-mentioned qualifications and skills are requested to submit an application letter along with an updated CV, academic documents, training certificates, work experience letters, and two referees to vacancycdecf@gmail.com by  27 August 2023. Only the shortlisted candidates who meet the criteria will be called for a written test and interview. No telephone calls will be entertained. CDECF encourages Women, Dalits, Marginalized Groups, People with Disability, and sexual minority are highly encouraged to apply.