Project Associate

2 weeks ago

Koch Bihār, West Bengal, India CARE India Full time
CissdEast Zone
Required Experience
Years

  • Posted On
  • 02 Feb 2023
Basic Section- Band- Junior Management- Grade- G- Designation- Project Associate- Employment TypeOrganisational- Company- CISSD- Business Unit- SPU-1- Function- PMU-2- Sub Function- Program Implementation- Cost Center- SFtW India- Country- India- Zone- East Zone- State- West Bengal- Working Location- Cooch Behar- Sub Unit- UP- SkillsSkill

Minimum Qualification

MBA/PGDM (FINANCE)

BCOM - BACHELOR OF COMMERCE

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  • Job Description
    POSITION/DESIGNATION

Project Associate

GRADE/LEVEL
Grade G
PROJECT
She Feeds the World India
PROJECT DURATION
Till 31st Dec 2024
REPORTS TO
Project Manager (Direct Line)
Dotted line reporting
PSM at HUB level
LOCATION
Alipurduar or Cooch Behar district, West Bengal
TRAVEL


30% including daily field travel, district head quarter, state and national travel as required.
ABOUT USPROJECT DETAILS**CARE India is implementing the flagship program "She Feeds the World" in India.

The goal of the SFtW program is
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to fulfill the rights to food and nutrition security for women small-scale producers and their families. The project
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aims to strengthen the role of women small-scale producers in selected value chains and also improve linkages with market actors, potentially including the PepsiCo supply chain, to ensure sustainable and stable income for the farmers. In addition, the project will work to
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challenge negative social norms around gender by engaging with men and other key actors within the household and communities.
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Farmer Field and Business School Approach

  • The Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) is a model developed under CARE's Pathways to Empowerment program, is a participatory women focused training and extension approach that helps farmers build skills to increase agricultural production, access markets and sell produces at competitive prices and engage in beneficial and efficient decision making.

Building on the traditional Farmer Field School (FFS) approach, the FFBS is a hands on, learning-by-doing approach through which groups of farmers meet regularly during the course of the cropping or livestock production cycle to learn about new agricultural techniques and technologies and to experiment these treatments on group-managed demonstration plots.

FFBS groups are typically made up of 25-30 farmers drawn from diverse collectives including VSLAs, producer groups, marketing groups and other common interest groups that coalesce around the production and marketing of a particular crop or livestock enterprise.

FFBS sessions are led by a trained facilitator who works with a group of community-based trainers (CBTs).
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The project will promote 360 FFBS over a period of 2 years reaching directly to approx. 10,800 farmers.
The project will focus upon achieving the broad five objectives / outcomes.

  • Objective 1. Improving women's capacities and skillsets
  • Objective 2. Improving nutrition in communities especially for women and children
  • Objective 3. Improving women farmers' access to and control over productive resources
  • Objective 4. Improving women's access to markets via inclusive value chains
  • Objective 5. Multiplying impact of agriculture through women smallscale producers

JOB SUMMARY


The Account & Admin Associate will be the main coordinating point in the project coordinating with the PSU team at the Hub Office, particularly the Finance Officers, Accountant, HR Officer and Procurement & Support Services Coordinator to ensure smooth functioning of the project office through essential daily administrative and work functions.

The position will ensure faster and efficient process management at the project office level.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support in arrangement/ filing of Procurement, Accounts/ Finance and other necessary activities to ensure Project Office operation with secretarial support in scanning, filing, note taking and processing (e.g. invoices, supportive documents, travel documents, etc.) linked to Finance Officer, Accounts Officer, Procurement & Support Services Coordinator, Programme Meetings, etc.
  • Provide assistance to project team in preparing travel arrangement requests (TAR) and towards travel management logistic supports (ticket booking, settlements, etc.) to all project staff under guidance and supervision of the Procurement & Support Services Coordinator.
  • Daily office administrative and management support like petty cash purchases inventory coordination (tea, milk, stationary, etc.), event support, hotel booking, cab bookings, etc. under guidance and supervision of the Procurement & Support Services Coordinator, under guidance and supervision of the HR support the project staff in PAR, Attendance, etc.
  • Preliminary accounts, fiancé and logistics including warehouse management of the project office bills, vouchers, travels