Project Field Officer - Pakistan

Role

Project Field Officer (6 months)

Location

Pakistan

Who we are

ELEVATE is a leading global business risk and sustainability solutions provider.  In 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor provided an award to ELEVATE to implement the Global Trace Protocol (GTP) project to increase the downstream tracing of goods at risk of being made with child and forced labor to help eliminate such practices in global supply chains, including in Pakistan’s cotton sector. The project has the following outputs:

• Output 1: increase the number of tested supply chain tracing methodologies.
• Output 2: increase the number of piloted tools for supply chain tracing.
• Output 3: increase the dissemination of supply chain tracing tools and methodologies to a broad range of stakeholders.

ELEVATE and its partners have developed a prototype tool to trace cotton from the farms to the mills to the finished products, along with verification of labor rights compliance, supply chain mapping, and supplier management. This tool will be tested during a pilot in Pakistan’s cotton supply chain during the 2022 season and includes a farm-level worker survey.  The project is operating, with the assistance of a local civil society organization (CSO), at the farm level in Sindh and Punjab provinces using the new project tool, which is a mobile phone/computer application, to collect and input the information, as well as Excel spreadsheets. With GTP’s direction, the CSO partner will manage tool users’ visits to the farms and areas around the farms, which may also be done in coordination with auditors from ELEVATE.  The CSO partner will also provide feedback about the tool’s strengths and limitations.

Job Overview at a glance

We are looking for a highly motivated, organized and proactive professional to support our work to effectively manage, implement and report on our US Department of Labor funded project aimed at reducing child and forced labor in global supply chains through traceability.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting in the accurate and timely completion of the farm-level worker survey (entering data into the Farm Monitoring Alert Application) in Punjab and Sindh, including visiting cotton farms and ginners participating in the Project.
• Monitoring, reviewing, and reporting on the CSO partner’s completion of its tasks in alignment with the approved workplan.
• Providing the GTP project leadership with timely feedback on progress, challenges and potential solutions in implementation of pilot tool, including but not limited to the worker survey.
• Assist in the collection of farm injury related data from local hospital and clinics located near GTP pilot project sites.
• Constructive collaboration with GTP partners and key stakeholders in the cotton sector in line with the GTP Project objectives and directives.
• Assist ginner procurement processes from farms in GTP cotton pilot areas, consistent with quality requirements and relevant social responsibility factors.
• Assist GTP in collecting ginner traceability data elements.
• Coordinate and conduct meetings with ginners and other local stakeholders
• Support the GTP team in collecting a list of the specific farm groups from which ginners source seed cotton.
• Any other task assigned by the supervisor related to the GTP project.

Qualifications:

• 3 – 5 years of experience in development related work, particularly in the agriculture sector, ideally in the cotton sector at the farm level in Punjab and/or Sindh.
• Strong data collection and survey skills.
• Strong intra-personal skills in terms of communication and collaboration.
• Self-discipline and independent time-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ELEVATE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by local law. Personal data provided by applicants will be treated as confidential information and will be used exclusively for employment purposes only. Only short-listed candidates will be notified. Applicants who are not invited for an interview may consider their applications filed for future reference.

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