The FTFEVCA Team requires specific expertise in the Senior Agribusiness Coordinator for the Feed the Future Ethiopia Value Chain Activity for Mizan sub office in Mizan. The activity will contribute to the government of Ethiopia’s objective of improving agricultural productivity and the commercialization of smallholder farmers through an inclusive approach that integrates nutrition-sensitive interventions and climate-smart agriculture with value chain development. The five-year activity will work across key value chains of maize, coffee, chickpea, dairy, and livestock.
Major Duties and Responsibilities will include
I, Agribusiness Coordination
· Develop a public –private partnership frame work for developing agribusiness investments to promote the selected agricultural value chains across the region including appropriate modalities for concessions with NGOs and the private sector
· Communicate and participate in meetings with FTFEVCA partners including AGP II coordination office, ATA and others. Maintain effective networking and dialogue with all relevant stakeholders
· The priority crops will be coffee and maize at Bench Maji, Kaffa, and Shekka zones and focus woredas including Decha, Chena, Gimbo and Bita woredas in Kaffa zone, Debub Bench, semen bench and Shy bench woredas at Bench Maji Zones and Yeki and Anderacha woredas in Sheka zones
· Identify sustainable business models that can be promoted during the project to maximize farmers returns and provide assured backward and forward linkages
· Prepare and recommend business plan approach together with a road map for implementing key activities including the involvement of local implementing partners as needed
· Support the project teams in value chain development and marketing strategies, improving access to Agricultural inputs, agricultural extension and value addition opportunities
· Facilitate commercial linkage between producers, aggregators, whole sellers, processors and exporters to relevant markets within Ethiopia, the adjacent African market and the wider global market
· Assisting the regional manager in responding information requests and presentations for USAID, AGP, regional/zonal stakeholders and counter parts
II. MONITORING, Evaluation and learning
· Coordinate and support the development of work plan for Mizan sub-region
· Provide strategic over-sight across the FTFEVCA sub-contractors, grantees and agribusiness clients, and maintain a consistent performance monitoring system and proper documentation of expected outputs and outcomes
· Oversee and support regional M& E specialist in CRIS data entry and other M & E tasks
III. Cross cutting activities
· Coordinate and support cross- cutting activities and inclusive campaigns that enhances the FTFEVCA scale and impact across the components of gender, youth, nutrition, environmental management and climate smart Agricultural systems
· Act as a focal person for cross-cutting components at Mizan sub-office level
IV. Managerial duties
· Follow up office management activities at Mizan sub-office and he/she will report to FTFEVCA- SNNPR Regional manager-Hawasa
· Serve as supervisor of crop/coffee specialists working within Mizan sub-office
· Follow up finance and logistic activities to make sure that the activities are undertaken in accordance with relevant rules and regulations of Fintrac.inc
· Bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in agricultural economics, marketing, business administration or related field of study from a recognized University;
· 3 to 5 years of experience in an agribusiness and/or M&E position within an NGO or Development contractor, preferably with experience working within USAID projects; at least 3 years is in a management position;
· Good knowledge of government policies, in particular the AGP and the mechanism for its coordination and implementation; the structure and conduct of agriculture marketing and related agribusiness policies of the country;
· Demonstrated capacity to work with private sector players (financial institutions, exporters, buyers, traders, transporters, input suppliers and processors);
· Familiarity with commonly used tools for market analysis and program design such as sub-sector analysis, gross margin analysis and business planning;
· Adequate knowledge and proven experience in M&E including in data collection, management and report writing;
· Demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills to stand-in for the regional manager, as needed, and provide specialist advice and guidance on strategy for a strong results-oriented practice across the team;
· Demonstrated ability to set priorities and to work with minimum supervision in order to meet changing deadlines;
· Good analytical and writing skills with the ability to synthesise and integrate M&E data into reports;
· Excellent team building and organizational skills together with the ability to interact across a multi-cultural environment;
· Fluency in English and Amharic and also preferably the main local language;
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