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| Honeybee Management Expert (Re Announced) | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Herat, Nangarhar, |
| Categories | Agriculture, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-12-18 | Close Date | 2022-12-24 |
| Vacancy No | DAI/AVCL-2022-059 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 2 | Contract Duration | 36 days |
| Education | University degree in DVM, Agriculture, Animal Science, or Animal Health | Experience | 4- 5 |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | |
About Company
About DAI/AVC-Livestock: DAI, a private company, seeks candidates for ongoing multi-year humanitarian assistance initiatives in Afghanistan. Our programs create jobs, enhance value chains, and support businesses to improve the livelihoods of Afghan citizens in a variety of traditional industries and services including carpet production, light manufacturing, food processing, agriculture/agribusiness development, livestock development, and training. We support private businesses, farming communities, and individuals who need to learn job skills and trade production improvement techniques.
Job Description
The objective of STTA intervention focuses on honeybee management practices for association/cooperatives beekeepers’ members to increase the technical knowledge and skill of beekeepers in honeybee management. The main topics which will be focused on honeybee disease and mites’ diagnoses, treatment and control, queen bee rearing technical technic, four-season beekeeping management, pollen collection technics, proper and safe use of medicines to avoid contamination of honey, proper and safe use of medicines to avoid contamination of honey.
Tasks (Performance Requirements): The jobs require the implementation and development of comprehensive training materials in the local language (Dari and Pashto) in the form of power points (ppt) on honeybee management practices:
Make a comprehensive training materials PPT on honeybee management practices.
Train the association/cooperatives beekeeper members on hiving and swarming management.
Train the association/cooperatives beekeeper members on diagnosing, controlling, and treating protozoon, bacterial, viral diseases, and bee mites.
Train the association/cooperatives beekeeper members on honeybee nutrition, including proper usage and application of medicine, and on the proper and safe use of medicines to avoid contamination of honey.
Build the capacity of associations/cooperatives beekeeper members in methods for rearing the queen bee practices, the process of collection pollen, plants pollination mechanism development with the community.
Job Requirement
A university degree in DVM, Agriculture, Animal Science, or Animal Health
At least 4 years of practical work experience in the field of honeybee management practices
Previous experience in conducting assessments and training is a plus
Excellent analytical, communication, and report writing skills.
Good computer and presentation skills.
Fluency in Pashto/Dari and English.
Submission Guideline
To apply for this position, please submit your resume and cover letter, with the position name and the Job Location (Honeybee Mmanagement Eexpert - Nangarhar or Herat) in the subject line, by email toAVCLivestock@dai.com (mailto:AVCLivestock@dai.com). To apply for any AVCL vacancies, please make sure you put the title and the Job Location on the subject of your email, or your application will be disregarded by the system. Please note that applications received after the closing date and without Subject line will not be given considerations. Only shortlisted candidates whose applications responds to the above criteria will be contacted for test/interview. In submitting your application, you understand that additional requests for information and/or participating in a screening interview to narrow candidate pools for short listing do not constitute a job offer or guarantee of employment.
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Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply