Broiler Poultry Farm Training Specialist
Country Afghanistan Province Balkh, Faryab, Samangan, Sar-e Pol,
Categories Agriculture, Type Full Time
Post Date 2024-11-14 Close Date 2024-11-19
Vacancy No DAI/AVCP-2024-057 Gender Male
No Of Jobs 1 Contract Duration 14 Days
Education Master's/Bachelor’s degree in veterinary (DVM) or animal science Experience At least 5 years of relevant work experience in Broiler Farm management
Organization Opportunities for you Salary Base on Company Salary Scale

About Company

About DAI/Afghanistan Value Chains Program (AVCP): Afghanistan Value Chains Program (AVCP), a USAID-funded program implemented by DAI Global, LLC (DAI), supports the expansion of sustainable agriculture-led economic growth across Afghanistan. AVCP achieves this goal through the support of anchor firms in the livestock and crops value chains. AVCP partners with and supports anchor firms through a market systems development approach, implemented through ‘Deal Notes’ which are co-designed agreements that respond to critical constraints while driving project outcomes. In implementing Deal Notes, AVCP works almost exclusively with agribusinesses and key value chain stakeholders to increase sales, investment, and productivity, among other key indicators. The growth of the anchor firms promotes the efficiency, profitability, and strengthening of the value chains with a direct and positive impact on rural economies, households, and livelihoods. The AVCP focuses its interventions on key value chain leverage points, such as input suppliers or traders linked to large wholesalers, processors, and farmer associations. In doing so, AVCP will accomplish the following fundamental sub-purposes: Sub-Purpose 1: Increased Productivity and Stability of Value Chains Sub-Purpose 2: Improved Commercial Viability and Operational Efficiency of Agribusinesses Sub-Purpose 3: Engage Afghan Women in Agriculture Sub-Purpose 4: Climate Change Mitigation and Resiliency Strengthened

Job Description

Balkh Poultry Firm is a leading poultry company in poultry value chain in Balkh, Samangan, Sar-e-Pol and Faryab provinces in provision of poultry feed, baby chicks, poultry farm management services and processing of poultry manure into organic fertilizer.  AVCP will, through the signing of Deal Notes aid the building of the technical capacity of Balkh Poultry Firm linked poultry farmers. This will enable them to better tackle issues arising during the day-to-day operations of their poultry farm operational services. Lower technical capacity coupled with weak management practices results in lower profitability.

Tasks (Performance Requirements): The Broiler Poultry Farm Training Specialist (STTA) is mainly responsible to develop comprehensive training material and conduct twelve days (12) days poultry farm management training to 240 poultry farmers with breakdown of 60 farmers per provinces in three sessions of 20 farmers per session with one day training session .. Moreover, the specific scope of work includes but not limited to the bellow activities listed:

  • Provide insights on the factors influencing profitability of the farmer and role of chick and feed quality and farm management on the productivity of the farmer.
  • Explaining the poultry farm's standard design, farm direction in cold and warm areas and optimum dimension of the farm for open sheds.
  • Deliver training on broiler bird management, preplacement preparation for chicks, brooding and post placement check of chicks for feed and water consumption,
  • Deliver training on the use of common-sense during chicken checking up, lighting and ventilation.
  • Train the poultry farmers on feeding and watering, balance ration nutritive value, proper storage, and physical form of feed and normal potable water quality for poultry. 
  • Train and demonstrate Bio security standard operational procedures (SOPs) which includes, proper disposal of dead bird, explain potential routes for exposure to disease and important steps for cleaning and disinfection.  
  • Demonstrate and practically practice vaccination, precautions for all vaccine, success of the vaccination, root causes of failure of vaccination, water vaccination and Intra ocular vaccination procedures.
  •  Deliver training on the common causes of vaccination failure and demonstrate practically the postmortem of the bird.
  • Provide a final report to AVCP project DCOP or his designee.

Job Requirement

  • Bachelor’s degree in veterinary (DVM) or animal science and at least 5 years of relevant work experience in Broiler Farm management or master’s degree with 3 years of relevant field experience in the Broiler farm management.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, and training skills
  • Fluent Pashto and Dari. 
  • Proficiency in written English is required.

Submission Guideline

To apply for this position, please submit your resume and cover letter, with the position name and the job location as Broiler Poultry Farm Training Specialist- Balkh in the subject line, by email to (HR_AVCP@dai.com). To apply for any AVCP 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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