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| Position wanted: |
Mid level Manager, Agriculture farm working related position |
| Job category: |
AgricultureConsultancyEcology/ConservationManagement/ManagerSalesSocial WorkTrainingVolunteer |
| Objective and Resume Summary: |
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- A total of 21 years working experience with development organization (More then ten years with CARE Bangladesh as Project Officer (PO), Technical Officer (TO),Program Development Officer (PDO), Regional Program Manager- Emergency Response and Technical Manager- Humanitarian Assistance.
- The major project/Program I have worked with ‘ Local Initiative for Farmers Training (LIFT); Flood Proofing Pilot Project (FPP) in remote Char revrine areas flood affected areas, Regional Piloting of ‘Integrated Food Security Program’ and several Emergency Response Program (1998, 2007 etc).
- Besides CARE Bangladesh I have also worked with renowned national level NGOs like Proshika Manobik Unnnyan Sanghtha, Swanievar Bangladesg, Practical Action Bangladesh and Islamic Relief International, Bangladesh.
- International level I have worked as an ‘External Agriculture Consultant’ with their livelihoods component in Republic of Maldives for two years (July 2005 to July 2007) with good reputation.
- More then 11 years experience as a team leader/mid level managerial position with different projects.
- Have 10 and 1/2 year’s expertise on design-development of agriculture, Natural resource and health related programming.
- Have wide range of experience on participatory program planning using PRA/PLA process. Also experienced to work for community lead program implementation.
- Experienced on coordination and conduction of staff and beneficiaries level formal and non-formal training on plantation, agroforestry, nursery establishment, vegetable cultivation and Agro-based IGA promotion. Well-versed experience on module and training materials development.
- Coordinate and participated in feasibility study for program area selection.
- Assist for consultant hiring formalities (Scope of work preparation, TOR etc.) as per program need.
- Assists community led program principle development ensuring participation of all levels of stakeholders and experienced on 3-years of regional program piloting.
- 10-years long working experience with most disaster prone vulnerable community in Haor , Char, and coastal areas.
- Designing of different monitoring and data collection tools for analyzing and understanding the implementation process and impact assessment of different program activity,
- Developed different participatory monitoring tools with the participation of project participants.
- Worked for extension and improvement of homestead vegetables cultivation practices about more then 9 and 1/2 years.
- Worked for plan–budget, post work, final status report, quarterly, semester/yearly progress/result reports preparation.
- 10 years experience of program implementation through GO/NGOs partner. Also acquainted with networking, liaison with different GO/NGOs.
- Worked for Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) activity focusing the overall activities will focus on disaster preparedness, mitigation and emergency responses.
- Experienced on stream lining of ‘Disaster Risk Reduction and Management’ issues in national development plan.
- Capacity building of the PNGOs (Partner non government organizations).
- Overall co-ordination of emergency disater response in the region for early recovery, rehebilitation and Reconstruction of agricultural dependents.
- Providing assistance to partner organizations for designing and development of emergency disater response, recovery and rehabilitation proposals.
- Ensured community and grass root level government bodies participation in humanitrian assistance program development and implementation.
- Ensured that the partenr organization are following humanitarian ‘charter’ and minimum standards (SPHERE) in distater response.
- Designed participatory monitoring and complian system.
- Develop marketing and outreach strategies including undertaking assessments and proposal development.
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| Skills: |
• Diversified educational background in agriculture and social science. Degrees are Bachelor of Agriculture in Science (Honors) and masters in Social Science in Government and Politics.
• Experienced in the development and implementation of Agriculture, Food Security and Livelihoods program considering gender equity.
• Have wide range of experience to work in a team context for food security assessments and nutritional surveys, agriculture and livestock interventions, fisheries interventions, small business / micro-credit interventions; market analysis; food and cash based interventions for program development for USAID fund. And also worked for community led assessment and planning techniques
• More then 15 years of experience to work for Community managed development program through participatory rural appraisal/rapid rural appraisal/participatory learning and action.
• Skilled in capacity building of communities (Community base organizations), local government institution, partner NGOs (Non-Government Organizations).
• Experienced to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts. And as a long period of working experience with CARE International Bangladesh hold a strong commitment to Equal Opportunities (e.g. gender, race, disability).
• Proved as an efficient worker to work under pressure and extreme hardship.
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| Known languages (and levels): |
English-GoodOther: Bangla
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| Type of Employment wanted: |
Full Time
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| Minimum Yearly Salary in Numbers: |
36000 USD
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| Current Location: |
Bangladesh, Dhaka |
| Education History, Qualifications & other additional information: |
| Level of Education: |
Masters
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Diversified educational background in agriculture and social science. Degrees are Bachelor of Agriculture in Science (Honors) and masters in Social Science in Government and Politics.
Professionalism:
Knowledge of full range of early recovery, recovery and development assistance and related human rights issues. Ability to advise senior management and other senior officials on approaches and techniques to address highly complex/sensitive issues.
Communication:
Have ability to speaks and writes clearly and effectively; listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; asks questions to clarify, and exhibits interest in having two-way communication, demonstrates openness in information sharing.
Teamwork:
Long working experience in a team context. Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals; solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise; positive to learn from others; sets agenda in a participatory manner. Supportive supervision’s to develop team members. Always shares credit for team accomplishments and accepts joint responsibility for shortcomings.
Planning & Organizing:
Develops clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies; identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required; allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work; foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning; monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; uses time efficiently.
Accountability:
Takes ownership of all responsibilities and honors commitments; operates in compliance with organizational regulations and rules.
Creativity:
Actively seeks to improve programmes or services; offers new and different options to solve problems or meet client needs.
Leadership:
I strong believe on supportive leadership. Empowers others to translate vision into results; is proactive in developing strategies to accomplish objectives; anticipates and resolves conflicts by pursuing mutually agreeable solutions; drives for change and improvements; does not accept the status quo; shows the courage to take unpopular stands. Provides leadership and takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work; demonstrates knowledge of strategies and commitment to the goal of gender balance in staffing.
Empowering Others:
Delegates responsibility, clarifies expectations, and gives staff autonomy in important areas of their work; encourages others to set challenging goals.
Building Trust:
Provides an environment in which others can talk and act without fear of repercussion; manages in a deliberate and predictable way and operates with transparency.
Managing Performance:
Delegates the appropriate responsibility, accountability and decision-making authority; makes sure that roles, responsibilities and reporting lines are clear to each staff member and accurately judges the accomplishment.
Judgment/Decision-making:
Identifies the key issues in a complex situation, and comes to the heart of the problem quickly; gathers relevant information before making a decision; considers positive and negative impacts of decisions prior to making them.
Management and development related training:
Management, Disaster Management, Community base Disaster Management Training (CBDRM), Urban Disaster Management Training (UDRM), Gender Programming, Partnership, Participatory Learning And Action (PLA), Financial Management, Trainers training and Feasibility Study of economic activities,
Technical Training:
Forest Extension and Nursery Establishment, Regenerative Agriculture and Intensive Vegetables Cultivation.
Emergency Response and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) working Skill in Bangladesh and Maldives.
English proficiency:
Level of proficiency- Reading-good, Writing- good, Speaking- Good
Computer literacy:
Internet user, MS-Word, Excel, Power point and some other packages like SPSS.
Driving skill: Motor bikes.
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| Work History & Experience: |
| Years of Work Experience: |
More than 15 Years |
E. Job History:
Present employment history:
Technical Manger-Humanitarian Assistance form January 15, 2008 to till date with Shouhardo (strengthening Households Abilities Responding to Development Opportunities) funded by Usaid. Care-bangladesh, Pragati RPR Centre (8th – 13th Floors), 20 – 21 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215.
Major Area of Responsibilities:
1. To ensure quality implementation and coordination of Humanitarian Assistance activity of Strengthening Households Ability Responding to Development Opportunities (Shouhardo) program at the regional level.
2. Strengthen partnership programming and capacity building of local organizations and grass root level government institute and collaboration with government and other stakeholders.
3. Assisted to prepare ToRs for short time proposal emergency response proposal and other new small scale pilot initiative.
4. Provide technical assistance to implementing partners for developing volunteer’s and mobilizations in the area of emergency response caused by natural disaster and conflict.
5. To ensure Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) activity. The overall activities will focus on disaster preparedness, mitigation and emergency responses.
6. Stream lining of ‘Disaster Risk Reduction and Management’ activity with other program activities like, health-nutrition, women empowerment and livelihoods.
7. To identify different types of disasters risks and vulnerabilities considering geographical context, and coping strategies that have evolved for the poor and the extreme poor across the regions. To address these, flexible strategy should be adopted and operational planning should accommodate regional needs and opportunities. On the other hand, the TM will have to play facilitating roles in delivering services to vulnerable people through local partners and local government institutions and departments.
8. Capacity building of the PNGOs (Partner non government organizations) and CARE`s technical staff so that they in turn can build capacity of the UDMCs (Unoin Disaster management Committee) Pourashava DMCs (Disaster Management Committee) and Disaster Volunteers.
9. Lead the regional team during ‘Emergency response, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction” activities following sphere standard.
10. To ensure the minimum standard of program delivery, meets set targets by assisting ‘Monitoring and Evaluation’ Regional Manager.
11. The technical support will be provided in the form of short training, case exercise, dialogue sessions, interactive meetings, arranging exposure visits.
12. Develop effective linkage in between different level of government bodies and non-government organizations (NGOs,CBOs, civil society etc) to develop a combined force for disaster risk reduction.
Previous Job history 1.
CARE-Bangladesh, Pragati RPR Centre (8th – 13th Floors), 20 – 21 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215 as a Regional Program Manager-Emergency Response form August 26, 2007 to January 14, 2008.
Major Area of Responsibilities:
1. Overall co-ordination of emergency disater response in the region.
2. Providing assistance to partner organizations for designing and development of emergency disater response, recovery and rehabilitation proposals.
3. Ensured that the partenr organization are following humanitarian ‘charter’ and minimum standards (SPHERE) in distater response.
4. Prepare annual plan for work for procurement, human resource and finance.
5. To ensure the participation of local volunteers for program planning and implementation.
6. Assisting for budgeting and procurement of project inputs following donor compliance.
7. Ensuring community and grass root level government bodies participation in humanitrian assistance program development and implementation.
8. Designing of participatory monitoring and complian system.
9. Liaising and co-ordinating with respective line authority of Gvernement and non-governemnt organization.
10. Facilitatating appropriate learning and management of information sharing.
11. Generating progress and comprehensive reports and different study reports.
Previous Job history -2
External Agriculture Consultant from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2007. Care society, Male’ Republic of Maldives under Action aid International funded “Care Society Tsunami Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project”.
Major Area of Responsibilities:
1. Developing and implementing a comprehensive relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction program for Tsunami affected community.
2. Working with community base organization. Conducting participatory well being ranking and Community led need assessment of economic activities.
3. Provide assistance for developing local level volunteer’s and mobilize them to strengthen community led activities.
4. Support economic assistance and income generation activities
5. Assisting for budgeting and making action plan for purchasing of project inputs. Develop strategy for the livelihoods and economic assistance sector, in accordance with country wide strategy.
6. Developing marketing and outreach strategies including undertaking assessments and proposal development.
7. Facilitating training need assessment process and developing of training manual.
8. Establishing appropriate monitoring and follow up mechanism.
9. Maintain collaborations with donors, local partners, local government, and key community leaders
10. Comprehensive report preparation on livelihoods activities.
Previous Job history -3
Project Coordinator from June, 2005 to June, 2005 at Islamic Relief International, Bangladesh.
Major Area of Responsibilities:
1. Overall coordination and management of four vocational training centers.
2. Staff supervision, management, budgeting and financial monitoring.
3. Assist program manager to review and designing of new project and proposal writing.
4. Liaison and networking with different organization, industries for employment of graduates.
5. Reporting
Previous Job history -4
Consultant from April 2005 to May 2005, Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), House# 32, Road # 13A, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209, Bangladesh .
Major Area of Responsibilities:
1. Working with a team for designing and developing of disaster preparedness training module.
2. Facilitate different training and workshop.
3. Training Need Assessment.
4. Field test of draft training module and finalize.
5. Produce ‘comprehensive report, field testing report and training report.
Previous Job history -5.
Name and address of employer: CARE-Bangladesh, Pragati RPR Centre (8th – 13th Floors), 20 – 21 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh under the program of Integrated Food Security Program (IFSP).
Position held: Program Development Officer.
Date of employment from September 1999 to October 30,2004
Working Station: CARE-Bangladesh Head Quarter from 1998 to 2001 and at Kishoreganj district form 2002 to till date.
Major Area of Responsibilities:
1. Design, develop and overall co-ordination of Agricultural, Forestry and Health, Hygiene, Nutrition Education related activities.
2. Organize different training, workshop and meeting for different level of project participants. And participate in different GO/NGO meeting/workshop at district, Upazila and UP level.
3. Develop program principles ensuring participation of all levels of stakeholders.
4. Design of Monitoring, impact assessment and reporting of regular activities.
5. Facilitate appropriate learning and management of home gardening, plantation, vegetation, nursery establishment, health, hygiene, and nutrition education among CARE and PNGOs.
6. Liaison and co-ordination with GO/NGO and research organization for building working relationship for similar field of activities.
Previous Job history -6
Name and address of employer: CARE-Bangladesh, Pragati RPR Centre (8th – 13th Floors), 20 – 21 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215, under the project of Flood Proofing Project.
Position held: Technical Officer
Date of employment: from January 1998 to August 2000
Working Station: Kurigram (from January 1998 to January 1999) and CARE-Bangladesh Head Quarter, Dhaka (from February 1999 to August 2000).
Duties and responsibilities:
1. Design, develop and overall co-ordination of Plantation & Home-gardening activities.
2. Staff Development, Needs Assessment and Management of different training, workshop for CARE&PNGO-staff.
3. Design of monitoring and reporting tools for program implementation.
4. Liaison and co-ordination of activities with govt. Agencies, NGOs and other agencies engaged in similar activity.
Previous Job history -7
Name and address of employer: CARE-Bangladesh, Pragati RPR Centre (8th – 13th Floors), 20 – 21 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215, under the project of Local Initiative for Farmers Training (LIFT)
Position held: Project Officer
Date of employment: from July, 1994 to December, 1997
Working Station: Patuakhali and Barguna (from July 1994 to December 1997).
Duties and responsibilities:
- Guide and supervise 5/6 Field Trainers for proper implementation of LIFT- Project activities as per plan.
- Assist to PM in preparing AIP, Project implementation report and budget preparation.
- Provide training to staff on homestead gardening and Agroforestry Practices, Organic farming, Nutrition.
- Make frequent field visit to monitor and supervise project implementation activities.
- Conduct on farm trails to test potential innovative techniques.
- Assist FTs in conducting formal and informal training to local Extensionists.
- Conduct performance appraisal process for Field Trainers in order to develop staff and strength staff moral.
- Planing of project interventions.
- Maintained liaison with GO/NGO officials for harvesting project related advantages.
- Prepare Monthly Activity Report
Employment history-8
Name and address of employer: - Proshka Manobik Unnayan Kendro. I/1- GHA, Section- 2, Mirpur 2,Dhaka-1216.
Position held: Junior Program Organizer
Date of employment : from October, 1991 to June, 1994
Working Station: Bhola and Gazipur (from October 1991 to June 1994).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Planning of social forestry (Roadside, Block plantation, Wood lot and agroforestry), agriculture and nursery program.
- Provide training to group leader, potential farmer and forest activity implementation related agents on social forestry, homestead gardening and Agroforestry Practices, Organic farming, Nutrition.
- Make frequent field visit to monitor and supervise project implementation activities.
- Conduct on farm trails to test potential innovative techniques.
- Maintained liaisons with GO/NGO officials, local leaders for harvesting project related advantages.
- Preparing AIP, Project implementation report and budget preparation.
- Feasibility study of agriculture related economic activities.
- Prepare Monthly Activity Report.
Previous Job history -9
Name and adress of employer: - Shawnirvar Bangladesh, Lalmatia, Dhaka.
Position held: Resource Person
Date of employment: from April 1987 to September 1991
Working Station: Dhaka, head office and Dinajpur.
During the said period I was posted at central office and worked with different project, like-
A. Skill Development Training for Rural Poor (This was a CIDA Funded Project for giving assistant to development of Bangladesh Rural Development Boards Rural Poor Program)
B. Family planning through total village development.
C. Management and Skill Development Training of Rural Women for their self-employment (ILO-funded project).
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Act as a resource person to assist the village development committee for strengthening their agro-based activities throughout the entire project area.
2. Worked as a technical team member for providing agricultural income generating activity related training. Training Module Development and conduct training:
3. Lead six small teams located in six upa-zilas of 4-districts. Which had worked for providing training on IGA management and assisted to got small credit from nationalized bank under swanirvar credit program.
4. Planning and budgeting.
5. Liaison and coordination with Upazila administration, Nationalized banks, vocational institute and different training institute.
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