Project Officer

HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Vietnam is looking for a Project Officer for Technical Support to Supply Chains, based in Ha Noi with frequent travels to provinces for project “DEVELOP BIOTRADE ACTIVITIES IN THE NATURAL INGREDIENTS SECTOR IN VIETNAM - BIOTRADE”. The Biotrade Project is funded by the Swiss Secretariat for Economics Affairs in Vietnam (SECO), and has the objectives to reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of the local communities based on sustainable development of the natural ingredient sourcing from biodiversity under BioTrade principles and criteria.

SPECIFIC TASKS

- Collaborate with the selected processing companies to sensitize and select farmers to participate in the value chains.
- Support the companies to elaborate training and working plans with the farmers.
- Support companies to formulate farmer groups and assist the farmer organizations in technical, management and organizational aspects to respond to the needs of the companies.
- Facilitate the establishment of effective supply contracts including benefit sharing.
- Provide and facilitate technical support to the farmers on cultivating, harvesting, and pre-processing.
- Support the companies and the farmers to identify needs for external services and establish training to the external services so that they can respond to the needs of the value chain actors.
- Prepare logistics and facilitate trainings for companies, local extension partners and farmers; and act as a master trainer (Training of Trainer) in his/her areas of competencies.
- Proactively facilitate the linkage between the private sector, the farmer organizations, the provinces and the other partners.
- Facilitate the dissemination of ‘best practices’ and provide lessons learned to ‘policy dialogue’ at provincial level.
- Support the collective learning in client/activity teams and/or expertise groups.
- Regularly update the progress of implementation of project activities to project manager and project partners.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- University degree in Agriculture or Agro-economy or other related fields.
- At least 3 to 5 years practical working experience in agriculture, agricultural value chain development or the related fields
- Good understanding of agricultural extension system, value chain approach, Non-timber forest products.
- Excellent communication and facilitation/visualizing skills (including writing skill for different target groups).
- Team oriented spirit with inter-personal and cross-cultural communication skills and outcome oriented spirit.
- Good command of Vietnamese and English.

Interested candidates should send applications (CV plus motivation letters and copies of diplomas) to Ms Nguyen Tu Anh, Human Resource Manager, email: [email protected] or post to 298F Kim Ma Street, Hanoi before 18th February 2013. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Job Details
Organisation Name: 
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Vietnam
Application Deadline: 
Mon, 2013-02-18