Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Job Summary:
The Vine Post Harvest and Food Safety (PH/FS) component requires a volunteer to perform a variety of tasks organized by the Vines Post Harvest and Food Safety component in their engagement plan with processors and traders.
This position will help extend resources to the Vines Post Harvest and Food safety technical team in order to better serve the processors in cohorts 1, 2, 3 & 4. The volunteer shall be a reliable member to aid in completion of some activities of the engagement plan for vanilla processors and traders.
Roles and Key Responsibilities:
• Under the guidance of the PM-PH/FS, ensure that program activities that facilitate a more rigorous food safety systems, improved packaging, and post-harvest methods for Ugandan vanilla, ensuring efficient and effective project implementation.
• Provide technical input to program activities related to vanilla processing, quality and food safety, and traceability systems.
• Deliver facilitation in the form of expertise in creation of food safety documentation to processors on the Post Harvest and Food Safety component.
• Identify and mitigate program risks.
• Assist the PH/FS team to ensure that the quality and appropriateness of activities to achieve the target indicators in a cost-effective, timely, and sustainable manner.
• Assist the PH/FS team in training and awareness programs under the engagement plan for Vanilla processors and traders.
• Monitor progress of assigned processors under the PH/FS component.
• Write follow up reports on activities.
• Respect and maintain confidentiality of information obtained from all partner organizations, volunteers, traders and donors during the cause of our engagement with them.
• Attend to our partners, the community in a courteous, personable manner.
• Be self-directed, willing to take initiative, and detail oriented.
• Perform any other duties as assigned from time to time by your supervisor.
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