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Under the overall supervision of the Country Representative and the direct supervision of the Programme Coordinator, the Senior Programme Assistant will be responsible for Project implementation of “Ensuring better watershed management for safer agriculture at territorial level with improved community capacity addressing the climatic ordeal in Cox’s Bazar” project (supported by FAO) for the Bangladesh Country Office of IUCN.

Under the overall guidance from the Country Representative and the Programme Coordinator of IUCN Bangladesh, the Senior Programme Assistant will be part of a diversified team and will be responsible for assisting the project manager in implementing all the project activities in the light of the Letter of Agreement (LoA) between FAO and IUCN.

1. Assist the consultants in data collection from the fields related to nursery management;

2. Assist in preparing handbook and/or guidelines related to nursery management;

3. Assist in piloting interventions in the field related to nursery management;

4. Organize field teams or volunteers to conduct field surveys related to nursery management;

5. Assist in organizing different project events (e.g. discussions, meetings, workshops, training sessions, knowledge-sharing events, and promotional opportunities for the project) related to nursery management;

6. Organize capacity building activities for Bangladesh Forest Department staff, Department of Agriculture Extension staff related to nursery management;

7. Assist the Programme Coordinator in preparing project documents and reports, including donor reports, event reports, case studies, fact sheets, and web stories;

8. Organize field trips in consultation with project Manager related to nursery management;

9. Provide support to the other projects of IUCN Bangladesh;

10. Ensure that IUCN's and FAO's policies and mandates as outlined in the LoA is duly complied with in all project activities; and

11. Undertake any other tasks that may be assigned by the Programme Coordinator and the Project Manager of IUCN Bangladesh, from time to time.