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| Safeguarding food and nutrition security project Manager | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Helmand, |
| Categories | Management, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2021-09-02 | Close Date | 2021-09-06 |
| Vacancy No | 2021/7 | Gender | Male |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | 6 Months |
| Education | With minimum Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture/Agronomy and have practical working experience in wheat cultivation. | Experience | At least 3 years of technical work experience required in the area of Wheat crop production. |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | Based on KRO Salary Scale |
About Company
About Kandahar Refugee Organization (KRO): Kandahar Refugee Organization (KRO) is a national level, non-political, non-profitable, non-governmental organization working for humanitarian and rehabilitation roots in Afghanistan. Further, KRO is an Afghan organization that is committed to the development of the local economy and building local capacity for sustainable development. Thus, we have an established specialized network in many provinces of the country in order to design, implement related activities in the field of food security, research, capacity building, disaster management, and placement.
Job Description
Job Summary:
Project Manager is responsible for handling ongoing project and working closely with team members to ensure that all project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track.
Responsibilities of the Job:
- Arrange facilitate and conduct feasibility studies surveys and need assessments as and when required for the ongoing program.
- The project manager is responsible to lead manage develop and implement programmatic technical activities provide technical inputs for baseline survey feasibility study market survey wheat value chain study etc.
- Be familiar with program implementation approach project cycle work plan log frame including program goals objectives and indicators.
- Provide technical inputs for the designing and developing of feasibility study assessment and survey tools.
- Participate as active member of the feasibility study assessment and survey team.
- He is responsible to conduct and collect required crops meteorological environmental data and calculate crop water requirement and irrigation requirement for the irrigation system.
- He is responsible to identify the current traditional based water distribution and allocation system and introduce the improved water allocation and distribution methods.
- He is responsible for developing capacity building materials and delivering training courses on various irrigation and agriculture topics.
- He is responsible for introducing wheat production practices including land preparation seed selection seed-rate planting on farm water management pest and disease management and weed control.
- responsible to train farmers in project areas in pest and disease management as well as post-harvest losses.
- He/she is responsible to boost up the field staff capacity building in administrative management new technology and practices and marketing information.
- Work closely with farmers to minimize or avoid the post-harvest losses.
- Work closely with the project’ staff and stakeholders ensure good coordination and communication with them.
- Come up with new ideas to increase the efficiency of the project.
- Identify needs prepare training plan and develop training modules.
- Liaise with and support key program staff to ensure that the program is running effectively and making best use of project resources.
- Provide inputs to project weekly monthly quarterly and annual reports.
- Provide written and oral translation and report writing for program staff as necessary.
- Other duties as assigned by Regional director.
Job Requirement
- With minimum Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture/Agronomy and have practical working experience in wheat cultivation.
- Recognized familiarity and experience with wheat varieties which are preferred for commercial sale utilized for flour production as well as have experience of marketing methods and market analysis.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to multi-task; prior experience in working with and/or managing wheat cultivation programming.
- At least 3 years of technical work experience required in the area of Wheat crop production.
- Able to work under heavy pressure meet tight deadlines and deliver high-quality work on timely manner.
- Ability to plan and operate from a broad strategic perspective to tactical implementation and to translate thoughts into actionable plans.
- Have strong project management planning and organizational skills including the ability to both lead and participate in cross-functional teams.
- Proven experience building staff and partners’ capacity and leading and motivating a diverse team analysis and monitoring skills.
- Excellent oral and written knowledge in Pashto, English language skills preferred.
- General relevant computer skills including Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint;
- Ability to travel to various district of Helmand province.
Submission Guideline
Please submit your CV and cover letter in a single file to vacancies@kro.org.af, please write the position title and vacancy number in the subject line of your email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.
Emails without position title and vacancy number will not be entertained.