Agriculture Advisor

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About the Organization

As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. We have over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security. The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector, and governments of other countries. We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Job Responsibilities

• Technical support for the project implementation in accordance with the order and project goals and activities agreed with the partner and team agreements. 
• Providing professional advice to partners and cooperation and communication with important stakeholders. 
• Contributing to conceptual and strategic development of policy recommendations, project proposals and operational planning in close collaboration with the team and partners. 
• Innovation and knowledge management, and communication of innovations to a broad target group. 
• Coordination of workstreams of projects in all three commodities and expert knowledge exchange.

Core Scope of Tasks

Professional advisory services 

• Supporting the project team in the overall implementation of the Indian commodity Hub of the global programme on "Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains I Cotton, Tea and Spices". 
• Providing technical evaluation and advisory on creating replicable models on best practices on sustainable cotton, tea and spices. 
• Ensuring linkage of the project components, farm and sustainable supply chain of cotton, tea and spices to pilot approaches and project implementation in close cooperation with the project partners. 
• Providing technical guidance on project implementation on promotion of desi cotton, ELS cotton, seed-production in cotton in collaboration with partners under the project framework. 
• Providing technical support across various state departments I ministries/ institutions/ textile and tea and spices brands/ relevant stakeholders to effectively meet the project-objective. 
• Preparing terms of reference for various technical studies, undertaking technical review and quality assurance of technical deliverables from national and international consultancy teams and implementing partners. 
• Supporting the monitoring of project results, and documentation and communication of project activities. 
• Providing inputs for dissemination of various achievements / information on project/ initiatives opportunities available under the programme. 
• Organising knowledge and experience-sharing events and workshops with partners. 
• Documentation of all proceedings including meetings, workshops and technical sessions and follow-up with stakeholders if required. 
• Monitoring and technical guidance of contractors and ensuring coherent implementation of deliverables (incl. reporting). 

Networking and cooperation 

• Supporting the project in implementation in coordination with relevant partners. 
• Assisting the project with all organisational and logistical issues. 
• Supporting the implementation, monitoring and evaluation, communication and documentation of the project. 
• Ensuring cooperation, regular contact and dialogue with partners; carrying out PR work and cooperating with local communities, relevant organisations, non-governmental agencies and individuals in the project/programme environment and with other projects to improve and maintain good working relationships. 
• Stakeholder management and communication with internal and external cooperation partners in a national and international context, with special focus on farmers organisations, farming service providers, non-governmental agencies, research institutes and academia. 
• Undertaking field visits in the project states regularly and traveling (abroad), in accordance with project requirements.  

Knowledge management 

• Planning, implementation and documentation of events. 
• Documentation of best practices, project success stories and replicable models under the project. 

Monitoring and evaluation 

• Coordinating and monitoring project results under the project framework with focus on cotton.  
• engagement with the partners for smooth coordination for data collection, processing and deciphering results. 
• Finalising monitoring data and results in coordination with the project team, and its reporting to the project Steering Unit in GIZ Head Office, Germany. 
• responding to emerging data and information requirements from the technical team. 
• support in documentation and communication of project activities.  
• undertaking field visits in the project states regularly in accordance with project requirements.

Coordination tasks 

• Maintaining a good flow of communication and information within GIZ NRM Cluster, Indian and German partners and other stakeholders. 
• Coordinating with respective stakeholders for assessing project-progress and monitoring impact.  

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Post-graduate in rural management and/or agriculture and/or in a related field.
• 4-6 years’ experience in areas of consulting, project implementation, stakeholder management of diverse professional networks and / or international development.
• Experience of working on promoting sustainable downstream processing of any of the project commodities- cotton, tea and spices would be an added advantage.
• Good experience in working with international teams with a cooperative teamwork approach.
• Excellent communication skills with a broad variety of stakeholders.
• Excellent presentation and negotiation skills.
• Familiarity with local agricultural context of four project would be an advantage.
• Very good working knowledge of IT technologies (e.g., MS Office)
• Willingness to be flexible in a continuously changing area of responsibility.
• Fluent in English and Hindi, written and spoken. Assamese would be an advantage (not mandatory).
• Has sound sector-specific knowledge.
• Has specific specialist know-how needed for internal and external services.
• Keeps specialist knowledge up to date.
• Seeks to broaden expertise.

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