The Role
Implement sustainable and regenerative agriculture programs across Dhule and Nandurbar. Train staff, farmers, and village volunteers; coordinate field teams and stakeholders; support crop demonstrations, production planning, market identification, procurement, budgeting, data management, donor reporting, and documentation. Promote climate-resilient practices, pulses and millet cultivation, farmer institutions, and livelihood improvement through collaboration with government departments, agricultural universities, KVKs, NGOs, and technical organizations.
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Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India (AKRSP India) is a non-denominational, non-political, non-government organization. AKRSP India was established in 1983 and it seeks to contribute to rural poverty reduction through community involvement and empowerment that leads to efficient management and an improved environment.
For more details please visit: https://www.akrspindia.org.in
Position Summary: The Programme Specialist – (Agriculture) will be responsible for implementing and supporting sustainable agriculture programme practices, regenerative agriculture initiative in the Dhule, Nandurbar districts region. This role involves working closely with local communities, farmer groups, and internal teams to promote climate-resilient agriculture practices, enhancing livelihood of rural communities.
Key responsibilities:
- Liaisioning with donors and government departments to ensure program alignment, compliance, and collaboration.
- Training of the team on various fronts of agriculture and its innovation with special context of bio diversification of cropping systems.
- Engaging techniques such as System of Crop Intensification, Conservation Agriculture IPM and INM for enhancement of the production sustainably
- Planning of agriculture budget for the implementation
- Coordination of field team, extension officers, village level volunteers for the implementation of the agriculture programme
- Identification of the potential market and develop a plan of agriculture production of our core beneficiaries.
- Follow up and data base management of existing of activities like Vermicompost, Group Irrigation System, Green Net House Nursery, Natural faming, Kitchen and Landless Garden etc.
- To impart training regarding on-going activities as well as dissemination of information about new agricultural technologies and methodologies among the farmers.
- Lead team such as inputs – seeds, integrated crop management, bio-controls etc. for demonstrations and scaling
- Trainings of village volunteers, organizing exposure visits for them in programme significant locations.
- Linking with the local stakeholders – agriculture university, KVK, other NGOS, technical organization to support agriculture intervention in various forms.
- Organizing farmers in village institution such as learner’s group for the up gradation of agriculture knowledge on timely basis
- Documenting written and visual on success stories, case studies from the field
- Timely reporting to the donor in English with the help of field team and research and monitoring
- Do proper procurement for finalising the various vendor as per requirement of the projects.
- Managing necessary field data/photographs required for reporting to the donor
- To work in guidance with the programme manager/ Area Manager and project mandate that is to enhance the production, productivity and area under pulses, millets in the villages
- Any other task assigned by AKRSP (I) management.
Key Benefits:
- Opportunity to work with a renowned NGO.
- On-site and off-site training opportunities.
- 5-day work week.
- Comprehensive medical insurance for employee, spouse, and children.
- Maternity and paternity leave as per organizational policy.
- 15 General Leaves and 16.5 earned leaves annually (earned leaves can be encashed if not utilized).
- 10 declared public holidays and 3 optional holidays.
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We strongly encourage women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and specially abled candidates to apply
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The Company
What We Do
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) (AKRSP(I)) is a non-denominational, non-government development organization and a programme of the Aga Khan Development Network. It works as a catalyst for rural development, empowering marginalized communities and women through agriculture, climate resilience, livelihoods and enterprise, financial inclusion, natural-resource management, and community institutions across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Maharashtra, while strengthening local governance and environmental stewardship.
