Technical Sector Officer – Agriculture, AIM

Key responsibilities

• Technical Sector Support.
• Support the planning and delivery of livelihood activities in agriculture and farming including training, asset procurement and transfer, asset follow-up, facilitating linkages with market actors and service providers.
• Provide support to the Technical Coordinators for the development of specific livelihood pathways training modules, as needed.
• Support the training of front line staff on the newly developed training materials; finalize the participant training rollout plans and provide logistics and planning support to the cascading down of the training.
• Support the budgeting, planning and delivery of all agriculture related livelihood interventions, including supporting localized market assessments; training on chosen livelihood pathways; entrepreneurship training; asset mapping, procurement, distribution and management.
• Support the facilitation of relevant linkages to TVET, apprenticeship and entrepreneurship.
• Support the training of branch staff and ensure the participant’s economic needs assessment and market assessments are done effectively prior to livelihood selection.
• Support the selection and training of the Community Agriculture Promoter and ensure they are ready to provide service to participants.
• Be informed of and compile a full list of national laws and regulations, disseminate this knowledge with field teams and ensure all livelihoods and market development interventions are developed in accordance with the existing laws.
• Perform periodic review of training modules and make necessary changes, as needed in joint collaboration with the Technical Coordinator – LMD.
• Support the Technical Coordinator – GESI for to effectively integrate GESI considerations in program activities, including making accommodations for vulnerable groups such as PWDs, IDP, refugees, and other relevant underrepresented groups.
• Coordination and Planning Support.
• Support communication with key stakeholders (government and non-government) and collect relevant training materials that can be used to develop/strengthen/ contextualize BRAC’s training materials.
• Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, service providers, to support delivery of interventions.
• Monitoring and Reporting Support.
• Ensure appropriate, timely, and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting.
• Work closely with the M&E and knowledge management teams to collate lesson learnt and best practices among internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with the MEL team to identify and incorporate project suitable accountability mechanisms.
• Manage and strengthen MIS, program/management data collection, and reporting on livelihood support.
• Safeguarding
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the project goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

Candidate requirements

• 3 Years of relevant experience, preferring in programs focused on livelihoods or economic development.
• Previous experience in providing technical assistance, especially related to livelihood or economic empowerment related activities, training module development, and training facilitation.
• Previous experience working in integrated programs targeted for women is a plus.

Required skills