Report to: ISSD Scientific Coordinator and regional ISSD Project Manager
Category: Farmers' Cooperative Management
The Position:
With the position of Farm Organization Expert, you will function within a team of individuals with complementary expertise in seed sector development. You will be supervised by the regional scientific coordinator, who will be assisted by a regional project manager. The regional project manager will supervise you on a day to day basis. Expertise, guidance, and support in gender; informal seed systems; business development; project implementation strategy; monitoring and evaluation (M&E); and data management will be provided by the Addis Ababa based ISSD Ethiopia project management unit (ISSD-PMU). A team of experts from Wageningen University and Research centre (Wageningen UR), the Netherlands will support PMU. Regional activity planning will be conducted with the participation of ISSD-PMU and often in collaboration with other projects united by the BENEFIT partnership. You will be an active participant in knowledge sharing and learning events with the teams based at other duty stations.
Key Responsibilities:
BENEFIT-ISSD aims to improve access to quality seed
The goal of BENEFIT-ISSD Ethiopia is to improve female and male smallholder farmers’ access to and use of quality seed of new, improved and/or farmer preferred varieties to sustainably increase agricultural productivity. The programme builds upon eight years of experiences in supporting the development of a vibrant, pluralistic and market oriented seed sector in Ethiopia. In this, its current phase starting January 1st, 2016 and ending December 31st 2019, BENEFIT-ISSD Ethiopia strengthens seed producers in three different seed systems (informal, intermediary and formal); enhances the performance of seed value chains within these seed systems; and contributes to an improved enabling environment for the seed sector. In addition, the programme strengthens professional capacities for implementing the ISSD approach.
ISSD Ethiopia is implemented in four regions of Ethiopia through multiple partnerships
BENEFIT-ISSD Ethiopia is one of the partners of BENEFIT. BENEFIT stands for Bilateral Ethiopia Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade. It is a partnership among four programmes in the country and with the Ethiopian agricultural sector itself, funded by the Dutch Government. BENEFIT-ISSD is implemented by five regional units hosted at four universities (Bahir Dar, Haramaya, Hawassa and Mekelle) and Oromia Seed Enterprise in four regions of the country, supported by a programme management unit and BENEFIT Partnership Coordination Unit (PCU), both located in Addis Ababa, and by Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands.
What kind of person we need:
Supportive Knowledge, experiences and skills required:
The Farmer Organization Expert should have knowledge, experience, and skills in:
To perform the function optimally, you should be able to:
Applicants must satisfy all of the following minimum requirements:
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