Technical Officer, SMART Project

3 months ago


JESSORE, Bangladesh Jagorani Chakra Foundation Full time

Responsibilities & Context

Jagorani Chakra Foundation (JCF) is a national voluntary social welfare organization. JCF is going to implement 'Sustainable Microenterprise and Resilient Transformation (SMART)' Project supported by PKSF. To ensure the quality implementation of the project, JCF intends to recruit project staff from qualified candidates of Bangladeshi nationals.

Assist the Project Manager in planning, monitoring, and supervising the implementation of project activities.

Assist to identify potential microenterprises (MEs), select appropriate climate-resilient and resource-efficient cleaner production (RECP) practices for MEs and motivate them to adopt those practices.

Provide technical support to MEs at cluster level.§ Select MEs for demonstration, set-up demonstration, and follow-up the MEs.§ Prepare training manuals, leaflets, case stories of the sub-project.

Impart training on new/improved climate-resilient, resource-efficient and cleaner production aquaculture/livestock/Agriculture/light-engineering/textile/Food processing technologies, GAP/ GAqP/GLP/GMP, climate change vulnerability, etc.

Assist in organizing field days, exposure visits, meetings, workshops, seminars, fairs, Environment Club meetings, etc.

Explore circular economy, value-added product diversification, and new market potentiality.

Assist to produce monthly, quarterly, and annual progress report as per the requirement of the management.

Regular field visit at project areas, tracking the MEs progress in adoption of the RECP practices and reporting.§ Maintain linkages with different government departments (i.e. DAE, DoF, DLS, BFRI, DoE), academicians, value-chain actors (hatchery owners, inputs sellers, market actors, transporter etc.), private sector companies, etc.

Follow the organization's Child Safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender, and WB Policy.