8 January 2016
 
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is owned by the German government and with operations
around the globe, GIZ provides services in the field of international
cooperation for sustainable development. GIZ also works on behalf of other
public and private sector clients both in Germany and overseas. These include
the governments of other countries, the European Commission, the United Nations
and other donor organizations. GIZ operates in more than 130 countries and
employs approximately 17,000 staff worldwide.
 
The Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) is
one of initiatives with aims to improve the livelihoods of rural rice farmers
through the promotion of sustainable rice production and improving rice value
chains in selected ASEAN countries, i.e. Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
BRIA-Indonesia will establish numbers of Sustainable Rice Production and
Information Center (SRPIC) at village level as learning center for the rice
farmers to increase their knowledge on Good Agriculture Practice (GAP), Integrated
Pest Management (IPM) as well as farm business and climate change adaptation
approaches. BRIA-Indonesia will establish the SRPICs
in 2 Provinces i.e. North Sumatera and East Java. In order to ensure that the
project will run properly, BRIA-Indonesia is seeking 2 (two)
qualified candidates for the following position:
 
BRIA Junior Advisor:
Rice
Farming Facilitator
 
Duty station:
1 Person in East
Java (Kabupaten Jember) 
1 Person in North Sumatera (Kabupaten Deli Serdang)
 
Responsibilities
·        
Carrying out  and coordinating project field activities
according to work plan and project log frame and establishes good relationship
with the counterparts in district;
·        
In consultation with the manager or
expert, prepares and carries out qualitative research projects (developing
survey instruments, field trial, training field staff);
·        
Set up demonstration plot as part of
SRPIC;
·        
Taking part in identify and train
selected rice farmers on rice cultivation, from land preparation till post-
harvest including rice farming business;
·        
Support program in developing and
adaptation of implementation rice farmer training for Good Agriculture
Practices, Farmer Group Empowerment, Market Sustainability, and stakeholders
linkages at district level.
  
The Job Holder performs the following tasks, but is not limited to:
 
1.       Coordination and monitoring
·        
Put together an overview of project field activities,
deadlines etc. and presents this regularly at team meetings
·        
Establishes
good relationship with the counterparts in the district e.g. rice millers,
farmer groups, local government, etc.
·        
Communicates
and promotes the project’s interests and exchanges ideas and information for
the benefit of the project
·        
Provides
regular project field monitoring and update information of SRPIC activities,
demo farm  activities, farmer groups activities and other status of
results
·        
Assist with planning, coordinating and documenting
meetings, workshops, seminars and other project activities with a focus on
technical aspects
 
2.       Research
·     
In consultation with the manager or expert, prepares
and carries out qualitative research projects (developing survey instruments,
field trials, training field staff, organisational preparation in the field,
collecting and analysing data)
 
3.       Implementation of
project activities
·     
Undertaking
on collecting of village data, farmer baseline data, and demo plot data
according to program requisition
·     
Managing
SRPIC field activities along with SRPIC Coordinators
·     
Overseeing
and supervise of SRPIC Coordinators in terms of project implementation in the
field
·     
Assisting
the project in capacity development activities with counterparts
 
4.       Knowledge management
·      Assists in drawing up reports and translations
·      Establishes a project database
·      Identifies and mitigates problems
and challenges that arise in project implementation
·      Assist in develops
regular field activities plan and reports
·      Assists in
communicating, updating and collecting information
·      Organises and
updates project field documentation, the filing systems and the project library
 
5.       Other
duties/additional tasks
·     
Performs
other duties and tasks at the request of management
 
Required qualifications, competences and experience
 
·           
Minimum
Bachelor Degree in agriculture or other related field studies;
·           
At least 3 years’ professional experience in comparable experiences;
·           
Having
experience in working together with rice farmers and good knowledge on
rice farming practices;
·           
Good
working relations with various actors in rice sector e.g. local government,
rice farmers, rice millers;
·           
Good
interpersonal skills and commitment working in a team;
·           
Very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software,
phone, email, internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office, CMS and
publishing software);
·           
Language proficiency in
English both oral and written, ideally knowledge of
German;
·           
Able
to ride motorcycle.
 
Duty
Station: Jember and Deli Serdang
Expected
Joining Date: February 2016
 
Interested candidates should
submit a motivation letter, CV, trainings attended and list of references
(a must), addressed to [email protected]. The closing date to submit the
application letter is on 17 January 2016.
 
Please indicate your application by putting
the following code in the subject line:
BRIA Junior Advisor:
RFF Jember or
BRIA Junior Advisor:
RFF Deli Serdang
 
Choose and put one of the codes in the
subject line according to your duty station.
 
Only short-listed candidates will be notified.