Applications are being accepted for appropriate individuals in Cesvi International to fill their vacant job published in daily Classified Source newspaper dated 19 January, 2024.
• Focusing on project management and technical quality assurance as per assigned responsibilities.
• Managing a local NGO partner implemented a major long-term consortium project’s food security and livelihoods component. The project focuses on enhancing the climate resilience of vulnerable households in the province of KP district Charsada through an integrated approach encompassing Livelihood, Food Security, Agriculture, and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
• Supervise and support the implementation of the activities and maintain partnerships through a gender-responsive and nutrition-sensitive lens while mainstreaming protection, accountability, and Do No Harm principles.
• Coordinating between CESVI, consortium lead, consortium partners, implementing partners, and major government stakeholders on agriculture and livelihood-related interventions.
• Ensuring smooth project implementation and donor compliance.
• Providing the implementing partner with technical and managerial agriculture and food security support.
• The position will be based in Islamabad or Peshawar and constant coordination with the Islamabad Country Office.
Key Responsibilities:
Climate Smart Agriculture:
• Implement strategies for crop improvements using Climate Smart Agriculture practices.
• Pilot and scale-up Climate Smart homestead vegetable gardening plots.
• Conservation Agriculture:
• Promote Conservation Agriculture Practices using the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach.
• Demonstrate climate-resilient crops, vegetables, fruits, and agroforestry methods.
Innovation and Research:
• Collaborate with research institutes, academia, and FSCR&D to pilot local seed banks and hermetic storage technologies.
• Conduct policy research on Climate Smart Agriculture, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), and watershed management.
• Agroforestry and Water Management:
• Implement the Government’s Clean Green Pakistan agroforestry models (Miyawaki).
• Manage watershed projects and pilot water conservation models, including Highly Efficient Irrigation Systems (HEIS) with private sector engagement.
• Eco-DRR and Nature-Based Solutions:
• Lead community-level Eco-DRR and nature-based Solutions aligned with COP 28 commitments.
• Economic Development and Livelihoods:
• Establish Business Hubs at union council and district levels.
• Identify and develop market-driven value chains for economic viability.
• Train women and landless men in market-oriented livelihood skills.
• Facilitate the placement of trainees with the private sector for hands-on experience as per the Graduation model.
• Create linkages for skilled women trainees with national and international markets through Local Social Enterprises (LSEs).
• Promote Climate Resilient value chains for sustainable development.
Interested candidates should submit their CVs (together with any other papers specified in the attached advertisements) by the Closing date: 29 January, 2024. The applicant must provide the job title in the subject line of the application. Cesvi International ensures equal opportunity for all equally qualified candidates.
