Description

BACKGROUND:

Passing Gifts Private Limited (PGPL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Heifer International USA and it provides services in educating, consulting, training, advising, and providing professional and technical services to individuals, associations, and entities in India and abroad, particularly those who support or are working in the areas of social advancement and sustainable development. This position may also require service agreements, secondment agreements, between entities, etc.

Heifer International through PGPL is partnering with Cargill Inc and the International Poultry Council in the implementation of the Transformational Strategies for Farm Output Risk Mitigation or “TRANSFORM” in India. TRANSFORM is a USAID funded project and a critical part of the Health Security Program that seeks to advance market driven animal health solutions to increase global health security, and increase access to safe, affordable, animal sourced nutrition while improving farm productivity and farmer incomes. TRANSFORM focuses on protecting human health by improving practices related to animal production through mitigation of antimicrobial resistance and prevent emerging infectious disease (zoonotic and transboundary animal diseases-TADs) while improving farmer livelihoods in India. Heifer is leading the deployment of biosecurity trainings to farmers and other value chain players through community agro-veterinary entrepreneurs (CAVEs) and farmer agrobusinesses, Social and Behavior Change awareness campaigns in biosecurity measures using different approaches, supporting farmer and value chain actors’ access to finance and market linkages to input suppliers, off-takers, and other actors in the market system.

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

FUNCTION:

Under the leadership of the Project Manager, the Project Officer- Livestock Technology and One Health will be responsible for providing technical support and coordination with the implementing partner in conducting trainings and promoting adoption of biosecurity, antimicrobial use, and good farm management practices among smallholder backyard poultry farmers in AP.