CAB International (Regional Bioscience Centre Pakistan) is seeking Women Trainers to implement the donor funded project on Better Cotton in Sindh.

The selected candidates for Women Trainers (WT) will be expected to implement the Better Cotton Standard System (BCSS) and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP).

Job Description 

• Conduction of baseline surveys for women farmer and farm worker information.
• Develop women groups / women entrepreneur groups in smallholder (SH) learning groups (LGs) / medium farmers (MF) on need basis in the end/start of cotton season.
• Social mobilization within farming community to adopt Better Cotton Standard System (BCSS).
• Engagement in the consultation process to maximize farmers/ farm workers participation in designing the activity plan of the PU. 
• Development and adherence to the monthly work plan and training plan in collaboration with PU field team.
• Delivery of training sessions as per monthly plan to BCI registered women farmers and women workers on BCI standards and Good Agriculture Practices (GAPs) via Farmer Field School (FFS) approach for maximum outreach. 
• Maintenance of up-to-date records of farmers trainings and field activities at BCI Farm and Producer Unit level. 
• Facilitation of the PUM for necessary record keeping regarding women farmers/ farm
• Facilitates internal/ external verifiers for conducting credibility checks and assessments of registered cotton growers.
• Facilitation and coordination with other PU team members including for gender inclusion and climate change mitigation among registered better cotton farmers.
• Prepare the progress reports and submit them to the line manager/project. 
• Collection, verification and submission of any types of data needed, including Result Indicator, farmers information, etc. to Producer Unit Manager within the given time period.
• Conduction of meetings with women beneficiaries for developing business linkages and
• Completion and timely submission of any other task given by line manager for satisfactory completion of the key role requirements.

Education

Graduate, however prreference will be given having degree in Agriculture.

Experience

• Knowledge of BCI Production principles and Criteria.
• Strong understanding of cotton production technology and its sustainability issues.

Personal Characteristics

• Strong organizational and learning skills;
• A team player with good interpersonal, communication and networking skills;
• Comfortable working on one’s own initiative as well as following advice;
• Flexible and creative in planning and problem solving;
• Willing to travel to remote and challenging locations in Pakistan.
• Applicant for this role needs to be honest, dedicated, social, motivated, disciplined, and self-organized to deliver quality work at prescribed deadlines.
• Ability to plan work schedules to meet agreed deadlines.
• Effective team player and conversant with a transdisciplinary approach.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, Self-motivated, an enthusiastic team player.

ROLE DETAILS

Reporting to: Producer Unit Manager

No. of positions: 14

Contract: 3 years with 3 months’ probation period. The placement will be made through third-party contracting firm (United Human Resource Services Pvt. Ltd) 

Benefits: Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Communication Allowance, EOBI, paid leaves. 

Benefits cost will be deducted from gross salary. 

Location: Shahdadpur, Sinjhoro, Sanghar, Tando adam, Jam Nawaz Ali, Khipro, Kot Ghulam Muhammad, Saeedabad, Matiari, Hala Tandoalhyar.

Other details:

• Due to urgent recruitment, CABI (Regional Bioscience Centre) can start the recruitment process (written test/interview) before the closing date of application.
• CABI (Regional Bioscience Centre) reserves the right to accept or reject application based on operational circumstances.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for test/interviews. Original documents to be presented at the time of interview.
• Candidate having the relevant experience will be given preference.