JOB OPPORTUNITY

BRAC is the world’s largest, leading development organization dedicated to poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. Initiated in Bangladesh in 1972, BRAC now operates in 11 countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas. To counter poverty and promote social empowerment, BRAC strategically integrates development programs in microfinance, agriculture, health, education, human rights and legal aid, community empowerment and more.

BRAC Liberia launched in 2008 with programs in Microfinance, Small Enterprise Development, Agriculture, Livestock and Poultry, Health, Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescent Girls, Psychosocial and Survival Support now impacting the lives of over 560,000 Liberians. BRAC Liberia is looking for competent, dynamic and self-motivated Liberians to fill the following regular position.

Position: No. of Vacancies: One

Job Title : Research Project Manager-Consultant

Tenure : 3 Months

Salary : Negotiable

Reports to : Program Manager, AFSL

Duty Station : Country Office

Safeguarding Job Responsibilities

1. Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve BRAC’s goals on safeguarding.
2. Act as a resource of support and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
3. Practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
4. Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage other to do so.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Program Manager, AFSL, BRAC Liberia, this is an exciting Consultancy that will support two highly distinguished researchers from the University of Ghana to support this research study. The Consultant will plan, manage, coordinate and execute several activities under the K-CAI research. A successful candidate will lead the roll-out of several activities under this research including farmer selection, farmer training, input procurement, distribution, follow-ups, monitoring, stakeholder engagement and other administrative/organisational tasks. The candidate will also support the researchers with field work including data collection, tools testing, enumerators selection, training, onboarding and reporting.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead the overall field implementation for a pilot randomised control trial (RCT) with a sample size of 120 smallholder’s farmers that will be divided into treatment and a pure control group. ● Conduct farmer selection following the protocol provided by the Principal Investigators (PI) and share the finalised list with the PIs for randomised selection into the treatment and control arms. ● Lead the farmer training sessions including finalisation of training dates, venue, sessions designs, delivery of the technical content, and preparation of post-training reports.
• Ensure procurement and distribution of agricultural inputs to farmers and do post-training follow ups.
• Review the revised versions of agriculture training manuals and provide technical inputs and comments.
• Conduct field visits to understand participants’ (farmer) knowledge on production technologies, local farming practices and market systems.
• Support Principal Investigators (PI) during field visits to Liberia, including preparing their itinerary, supporting their field visits and providing logistical and administrative support during enumerator training, data collection and fieldwork supervision.
• Support grants management and bi monthly financial reporting
• Organise regular check-ins with PIs and BRAC USA
• Support PIs, Grants Manager and the Program Manager-AFSL with all other tasks related to this research.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• A post-graduate or equivalent qualification/degree in Agriculture/Poultry & Livestock or any other relevant discipline.
• At least 3-5 years of prior work experience in agriculture, homestead gardening, post-harvest management, poultry and livestock rearing, nutrition promotion, health, water and sanitation, training etc. especially in the Liberian context.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating trainings
• Previous experience in research, monitoring and reporting

Others

• Ability to travel frequently within Liberia
• Exceptional interpersonal, management and communication skills
• Excellent writing, editing, and oral communication skills in English.

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. Therefore, our hiring process includes extensive background checks and criminal records disclosure. BRAC is an equal opportunities employer.

All qualified and interested applicants can submit a cover letter with their CVs with three referees, one of which should be your current or most recent employer/line manager, along with copy of your educational qualification. Applications should be submitted by email to: Recruitment.Liberia@brac.net, with the position title on the subject line. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE MAY FIND A SUITABLE CANDIDATE BEFORE THE CLOSE OF THIS VACANCY DUE TO THE URGENCY.