No. of Vacancies: 01

Duty Station: Sarlahi 

Working Area: Sarlahi district

Required Qualification: Her/his academic qualification must be at least a certificate level including 3 years of intensive working experience in the related field or bachelor degree in any fields with keen interest to work in the community development sector.

Job Overview:

Cooperative Capacity Building Facilitator (CCBF) is a key actor to strengthen Smallholder Farmers' Organization in the project areas. He/she is mainly responsible for building the capacity of cooperatives in relation to Institutional, Governance and financial management through facilitation, training and coaching/backstopping. She/he will closely work under the direct supervision of Project Coordinator and guidance of Program Officer SSFO.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Prepare monthly action plan and monthly progress report
• Maintain and update cooperative database regularly
• Organize monthly/quarterly meetings with cooperatives to develop goat production plan, ensure quality, quantity and consistency of production and supply, prepare cooperative wise sales projection target and schedule for bulking/aggregation
• Support to Cooperatives Boards and its staffs during the aggregation and selling of goats
• Facilitate and coach to cooperatives board/sub committees/staff on production and collection of sales data and establish recording/data management system in recommended format
• Form Group Leader Network Committee (GLNC) in each cooperatives as appropriate numbers and coach them regularly on marketable goat production data, recording system at SHG level, establish communication channel between SHG and cooperative;
• Regularly organize meeting with GLNC to review and develop further plan
• Organize capacity building trainings (Cornerstones, PSRP, Co-CAT, Business Development Plan, Annual Action plan, Link methodology, coop financial management and cooperative management) to cooperative's board members
• Regularly coach, guide and educate on roles and responsibilities of cooperative board members/sub committees, including coop bylaws, act, policies and guidelines of current changing context to the cooperatives
• Conduct various level meetings such as household enterprises (lead farmers-goat, vegetable, backyard poultry, fodder forage, etc.) to reduce production cost and cost benefit analysis
• Develop fodder forage resource centers at private entrepreneurs level in each assigned project areas to scale up and develop fodder forage cultivation
• Educate and increase awareness level on goat fattening through establishing demonstration farming at both entrepreneurs and household levels
• Assist to Project Coordinator in organizing periodic meetings with VC actors (traders, buyers, collectors, meat entrepreneurs, input suppliers) and BDS (access to finance-B/MFIs, Insurance, input suppliers, market, etc.) at project cluster level
• Assist to Project Coordinator in organizing meeting, exposure visit and training for PMCCs, local government bodies, project stakeholders and Cooperatives
• Regularly visit to cooperatives, GLNCs, lead farmers and entrepreneurs to provide support, backstopping and coaching to achieve the project goal
• Coach and guide cooperative members and its staffs for proper record keeping (meeting minute, action plan, traders profile, BDS record, collection of monthly saving, disbursement of loan, income and expenditures, audit report, etc.)
• Ensure the qualities of project inputs and trainings deliver by the project
• Encourage cooperative board members/sub committees, VC actors, group members to internalize and reinforce Heifer’s values
• Support and ensure to cooperatives for documentation of family level record of livestock and other inputs placement as well as meetings and trainings carried out at the field level
• Channelize CAVEs, technicians and private veterinarian in cooperative for effective technical services to its  members
• Document best practices, case studies, and lessons learned of cooperative, private, individual beneficiaries and groups in the project area
• Carry out any other jobs and responsibilities as assigned by Project Coordinator