TRAINNERS/STAFF REQUIRED FOR CITRUS ORCHARD MANAGEMENT PROJECT
Irrigation specialist, Fertilizer application specialist, Orchard / tree management and pruning specialist, IPM specialist, Climate change specialist, Training Assistants and M&E specialist
Background:
CABI is an international not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
Through knowledge sharing and science, CABI helps address issues of global concern such as improving global food security and safeguarding the environment. We do this by helping farmers grow more and lose less of what they produce, combating threats to agriculture and the environment from pests and diseases, protecting biodiversity from invasive species, and improving access to agricultural and environmental scientific knowledge. Our 48 member countries guide and influence our core areas of work, which include development and research projects, scientific publishing and microbial services.
Project:
CABI holds unique potential in IPM, SPS and overall plant health improvement which positions CABI unique as compared to related international agricultural organizations. CABI is implementing a Citrus Groove Management Project in Sargodha region. The project focuses on capacity building of the citrus growers in the area of IPM, fertilizer application, irrigation, plant management including pruning, and effect of climate change on Kinnow plant health.
The role of trainers (Irrigation specialist, Fertilizer application specialist, Orchard / tree management and pruning specialist, IPM specialist, Climate change specialist) would be to develop training material in consultation with the project management team, and to conduct trainings of the farmers and technical staff of the citrus processors in Sargodha region. M&E Specialist would conduct the monitoring and evaluation of the trainings conducted by the trainers. Training Assistants would help trainers in conducting the trainings.
Job Profile
Job Title: Citrus Groove Management Specialists (Irrigation specialist, Fertilizer application specialist, Orchard / tree management and pruning specialist, IPM specialist, Climate change specialist), Training Assistants, and M&E specialist.
Duration of assignment: Up to six months
Location: Sargodha
TORs
- Work under the guidance of Project Manager and Project Scientists to meet the training requirements of the funding agency
- Develop training material for the modules of comparative expertise and topics assigned by the project management team
- Conduct trainings of citrus farmers and technical staff of the citrus processors on the training calendar developed by the project funding and implementing agencies
- Understand and follow the training guidelines / requirements of the project funding and implementing agencies
- Write progress reports and develop brochures with consultation of project management team
- M&E specialist would work with the CABI Global Team to meet the M&E requirements of the funding agency
- Any other assignments required for satisfactory completion of the key role requirements
Qualifications
Education: Candidates for Trainers & M&E specialist positions must have at least 18 years Master of Science degree in respective disciplines of agriculture / social science from an HEC recognized university. Training Assistants are required to have 16 years of education in Horticulture / Agriculture.
Experience: Candidates for Trainers positions must have at least ten years intensive work experience of developing training materials and delivering trainings of the commercial citrus industry is required. Candidates would have enough orientation of working with multi-layer stakeholder groups. M&E specialist should have at least five years’ experience of M&E of donor funded projects. Training Assistants should have experience of conducting capacity building of farmers and other stakeholders.
Person Specification: Applicants for these roles need to be honest, dedicated, social, motivated, disciplined, and self-organized to deliver quality work at prescribed deadlines.
Language Skills: Urdu and English
Domicile: All provinces of Pakistan
Application Procedure:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their application online on BrightSpyre by 5 August 2016. Clearly mention the position applied. Government employees must send the hard copy of departmental approval of application through proper channel addressed to the Manager HR, CABI, Opposite 1-A, Data Gunj Bakhsh Road, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi before the application deadline.