Passing Gifts is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identify, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability

BACKGROUND:

Passing Gifts Private Limited (PGPL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Heifer International USA and it provides services in educating, consulting, training, advising, and providing professional and technical services to individuals, associations, and entities in India and abroad, particularly those who support or are working in the areas of social advancement and sustainable development. This position may also require service agreements, secondment agreements, between entities, etc.

PGPL is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identify, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

FUNCTION:

The Project Officer - Livestock Technology and One Health shall lead the Livestock component for Passing Gifts India Office and facilitate the well-being of all animals through the adoption of improved animal management, productivity practices and standards in all the states and assigned program areas to ensure animal health, animal husbandry and product quality assurance is achieved. He/She will be responsible for ensuring that Passing Gifts participants in the project have knowledge and skills on how to maximize their animals’ productivity and reduce the cost of production. He/She will be working in collaboration with project partners and will be responsible for capacity building, monitoring and reporting related to project activities in the area. The Program Officer – LTOH will work in close collaboration and coordination with the Sr. Project Manager to ensure successful, innovative, efficient, and effective functioning of all enterprise hubs in the program.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES: 

Promote scientific Goat/Backyard Poultry practices in rural farmers for increase in income and nutrition of the family. (50%).

• Ensure quality and timely animal healthcare delivery (prevention and treatment).
• Ensure good husbandry practices (breeding, nutrition, housing, feeding, watering, and waste management and other ecological production methods etc.).
• Ensure regular supply of quality inputs.
• Ensure good quality output products.
• Develop training material and conduct trainings for field workers/entrepreneurs.
• Develop innovative models as per the field situation.
• Support in Business and Marketing activities of goat/Poultry
• Facilitate CAVEs time to time for project implementation
• Organize trainings for the CAVEs on Goat, BYP and strengthen their knowledge and skills

Meet the project targets timely in terms of scale up production, targeted families, income increase and business goals.

Monitoring, review and reporting of the program (20%)

• Ensuring timely submission of reports.
• Ensure that the partner meet the Heifer’s monitoring and evaluation requirements and the deadlines
• Reviewing the project progress (physical and financial) with partner staff on monthly basis
• Ensure that the Activity based reforecasting is prepared following the participatory method and the other stakeholders (PMC, co-funder, etc)
• Documentation and sharing of the best practices

Work in collaboration and consultation with Regional Program Office (RPO) and Country Program Office (CPO) team

Facilitate the well-being of all small ruminants through the adoption of improved animal management and productivity practices and standards in the program (15%).

• Ensure quality and timely animal healthcare delivery (prevention and treatment).
• Ensure good husbandry practices (breeding, nutrition, feed and fodder management, housing, watering, and waste management and other ecological production methods etc.).
• Ensure regular supply of quality inputs.
• Ensure good quality output products.
• Develop training material and conduct trainings for field workers/entreprenurs.
• Develop innovative models as per field situation.
• Support in Business and Marketing activities of small ruminants.

Liaison, networking and resource mobilization to strengthen the program effectiveness (10%)

• Sharing the Heifer’s model with other stakeholder and building a fruitful relationship with them
• Networking and relationship building with Government, CSR, Foundations, and other stakeholders and linking the project participants to their schemes
• Promotion cross earning and exchange of the knowledge
• Supporting the partners in mobilization of the committed co-funding/ Local Resource Leverage (LRL)
• Organizing and participating in donor visits.
• Time to time participation in state level events, workshops, and roundtables

May perform other job-specific duties as assigned (5%)

 QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

 Minimum Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in veterinary science or equivalent plus three (3) years of Poultry Management related experience is required. Other job-related education and /or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements.
• Master’s degree in veterinary science with specialization in Goat & Poultry Science.
• Clear understanding of goat, BYP, vegetable, and Agri-Product value chains.
• Innovative, analytical, and solutions-oriented mindset.
• Knowledge of enterprise development and linkages to poverty alleviation.

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to navigate challenging situations to achieve goals and deadlines.
• Demonstrate a high degree of honesty and integrity.
• Motivated to work responsibly with little supervision.
• Ability to meet and deal with others in a courteous and tactful manner.
• Ability to work with sensitive information and to always maintain confidentiality.
• Ability and willingness to work a flexible schedule.

• Fluent in Hindi, English, and Local Language spoken as well as written.
• Must be having interest in animal/agriculture community development.
• Willingness and ability to travel locally and internationally.
• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, web designing, collaboration platform and tools, and electronic mail software (Microsoft preferred);
• Constant sitting, standing and walking, with occasional bending and lifting; may work at a computer for extended periods of time.