Senior Project Manager

 Heifer International

Senior Project Manager

Job ID 254

Program / Project Management  India   Odisha

 

Description

Heifer International is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

FUNCTION
Heifer International is partnering with Cargill Inc. on the upcoming USAID project in India and Kenya. This anticipated five-year-multi-country activity will require the expertise of a qualified full-time Senior Project Manager for Heifer International India’s role on the project, which is implementing an innovative and market-driven solution that will inform research and development to increase access to safe, affordable, and high-quality animal-source nutrition and prevention of emerging zoonoses, transboundary animal diseases. 

The Senior Project Manager will have wide-ranging responsibilities; including, but not limited to the following:  

• Responsible for management and coordination of project activities in India to achieve the agreed impact.
• S/he provides leadership, technical, and administrative oversight to the project team to ensure high quality programming and alignment with the prime and consortium members.

Please note that this position is contingent on award.

ESSENTIAL CHARACTER TRAITS

Heifer International India is looking for a self-motivated and result oriented person to fill in the position of the Senior Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES & DELIVERABLES
A. Project Technical Management, and Private and Public sector linkages, partnerships (40%)

• Manage the implementation of the various project studies and activities to drive the project towards the achievement of the planned outcomes and following USAID compliance regulations for implementation.
• In collaboration with the project team, lead the review, preparation, and development of training curriculum and materials on biosecurity and farm management as well as animal health and nutrition-related issues
• Mobilize CAVES and technical experts as appropriate as well as arranging their trainings on biosecurity, improved animal health and husbandry as well as farm management practices.
• Provide overall coordination in designing, engagement and implementing partnerships that will entail the provision of specialized biosecurity/ animal health advisory services, agro-inputs and training to address the commercial needs of various animal health/production value chain actors within the Project.
• Establish traceability systems with evidence of certain practices or inputs, which will allow farmers or input suppliers to secure accreditation or achieve market benchmarks, increasing their competitiveness in the market and potentially opening new market channels.

DELIVERABLE        

• Comprehensive capacity building of CAVES on animal nutrition and farm management undertaken.
• Training deployed through CAVES to producer organizations- targeting poultry and dairy farmers on biosecurity and farm management practices towards increasing household income.
• Revised and USAID approved training manuals and guides.
• Feasibility study highlighting key socio-economic factors that affect the position of smallholder farmers to sustainably adopt the product including determining appropriate price points for sustained use.
• Developing and deploying a data management system/ Animal Health Production information system.
• Early warning and response systems developed and embedded into extension systems operational in the determined Counties.
• Quality Assurance and accreditation system established for feed input suppliers to producer organizations in the determined counties.

Project Planning, Administrative Management, Budgeting and Reporting (25%)

• Develop an overall project operational plan aligned to the project results framework that will guide in project implementation.
• Development and implementation of project work plans per Prime and donor requirements
• Per prime and USAID requirements maintain monthly budget projections aligned to the project