Consultant - Veterinary Doctor

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.

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.

Position Title: Consultant - Veterinary Doctor

Department: Livestock Technology and One Health

Reporting to: Senior Project Manager

Engagement Period: 6 months (January 5th, 2026, to June 30th , 2026)

Location: Darbhanga, Bihar

Responsibilities

(including approximate percentage effort)

DELIVERABLES

A. Promote scientific Goat/Backyard Poultry practices in rural farmers for increase in income and nutrition of the family. (50%).

• Ensure quality and timely animal healthcare delivery (prevention and treatment).
• Ensure good husbandry practices (breeding, nutrition, housing, feeding, watering, and waste management and other ecological production methods etc.).
• Ensure regular supply of quality inputs.
• Ensure good quality output products.
• Develop training material and conduct trainings for field workers/entreprenurs.
• Develop innovative models as per the field situation.
• Support in Business and Marketing activities of goat/Poultry
• Facilitate CAVEs time to time for project implementation
• Organise trainings for the CAVEs on Goat, BYP and strengthen their knowledge and skills
• Meet the project targets timely in terms of scale up production, targeted families, income increase and business goals.
  
  

B. Monitoring, review and reporting of the program (20%)

• Ensuring timely submission of reports.
• Ensure that the partner meet the Heifer’s monitoring and evaluation requirements and the deadlines
• Reviewing the project progress (physical and financial) with partner staff on monthly basis
• Ensure that the Activity based reforecasting is prepared following the participatory method and the other stakeholders (PMC, co-funder, etc)
• Documentation and sharing of the best practices
• Work in collaboration and consultation with Regional Program Office (RPO) and Country Program Office (CPO) team
  
  

C. Facilitate the well-being of all small ruminants through the adoption of improved animal management and productivity practices and standards in the program (15%).

• Ensure quality and timely animal healthcare delivery (prevention and treatment).
• Ensure good husbandry practices (breeding, nutrition, feed and fodder management, housing, watering, and waste management and other ecological production methods etc.).
• Ensure regular supply of quality inputs.
• Ensure good quality output products.
• Develop training material and conduct trainings for field workers/entreprenurs.
• Develop innovative models as per field situation.
• Support in Business and Marketing activities of small ruminants.
  
  

D. Liaison, networking and resource mobilization to strengthen the program effectiveness (10%)

• Sharing the Heifer’s model with other stakeholder and building a fruitful relationship with them
• Networking and relationship building with Government, CSR, Foundations, and other stakeholders and linking the project participants to their schemes
• Promotion cross earning and exchange of the knowledge
• Supporting the partners in mobilization of the committed co-funding/ Local Resource Leverage (LRL)
• Organizing and participating in donor visits.
• Time to time participation in state level events, workshops, and roundtables
  
  

E. May perform other job-related duties as assigned/ requested (5%)

• Support other projects as and when required.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in veterinary science or equivalent plus five (5) years of Poultry Management related experience is required. Other job-related education and /or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements.

Preferred Requirements

Master’s degree in veterinary science with specialization in Goat & Poultry Science.

• Knowledgeable of and experience in working with poultry and livestock programs.
• Knowledge and experience of running Campaigns.
• Knowledge of and experience with or within community organizations.
• Fluent in Odia, Hindi, English spoken as well as written.
• Good leadership qualities.
• Good communication skills.
• Have an interest animals/agriculture Community development.
• Excellent organizational skills including strong attention to details.
• Skills with Microsoft Office packages, internet browser and other appropriate technology.

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